Detective Fiction
The Black Bag
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Louis Joseph Vance
Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified f…
The False Faces
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Louis Joseph Vance
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respecta…
The Seen and the Unseen
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Richard Marsh
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a …
Tom Ossington's Ghost
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Richard Marsh
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for…
The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange
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Anna Katharine Green
Miss Violet Strange is young, petite and attractive and has a wealthy father. She also has the knack for solving problems. This collection c…
Man Overboard
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Francis Marion Crawford
Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. S…
The Middle Temple Murder (version 2)
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J. S. Fletcher
A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way …
Murder at Bridge
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Anne Austin
Inhabitants of the small town of Hamilton joke that they are afraid of being the dummy when playing Bridge, for fear of being murdered. Mean…
The Exploits Of Elaine
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur B. Reeve
The Exploits of Elaine It tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only…
Clouds of Witness
Read by Kirsten Wever
Dorothy L. Sayers
While Lord Peter Wimsey is on holiday in the wilds of Corsica, his brother Gerald, Duke of Denver, is charged with the murder of their siste…
The Thousandth Woman
Read by Lee Smalley
E. W. Hornung
E. W. Hornung was an English author and poet best known for writing the A. J. Raffles series of stories about a gentleman thief in late 19th…
The Expressman and the Detective
Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA
Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …
The Dark House
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
George Manville Fenn
An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most …
Red Arrows in the Night
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Daniel A. Lord
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold…
The Amateur
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Richard Harding Davis
On the steamer on his way to London, Austin Ford meets a young woman, who is going to London to find her missing husband. Being a specialist…
The Clue of the Twisted Candle (Version 2)
Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Edgar Wallace
Detective mystery story set in London, with some romance, and intriguing plot. - Summary by Peter Thomlinson
The Man with the Black Cord
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Auguste Groner
A baffling disappearance. A bedroom door locked from the inside. A housekeeper with something to hide. Will retired policeman turned privat…
Fantômas
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Marcel Allain
Fantômas is the first of 32 novels penned from 1911 to 1913 by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. The title character is a ruthless t…
Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings
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Rose Macaulay
Henry Beechtree, a newspaper correspondent for the British Bolshevist, is covering the latest otherwise sleepy session of the League of Nati…
Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective
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Percy James Brebner
Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Pol…