Detective Fiction

The Blue Envelope

Read by Dawn Larsen


Roy J. Snell


A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

The Agony Column

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Earl Derr Biggers


English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In thi…

32 Caliber

Read by Dawn Larsen


Donald Mcgibeny


A suspicious accident reveals itself to be a murder! Our story is narrated by a lawyer who turns detective in order to uncover the real murd…

The Beetle

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Richard Marsh


A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and…

The Case of Miss Elliott

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Baroness Emma Orczy


A sequel to the stories published in The Old Man in the Corner, this second book in the series includes twelve new mysterious cases that The…

The Black Eagle Mystery

Read by Michael MacTaggert


Geraldine Bonner


A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a bla…

The Green Rust (Version 2)

Read by Kirsten Wever


Edgar Wallace


Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…

Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2

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Thomas Peckett Prest


Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…

The String of Pearls

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Unknown


The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…

Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective - Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express

Read by Sibella Denton


A. Frank Pinkerton


Dyke Darrel investigates an audacious train robbery that included the murder of a friend, and embarks on a man-hunt. High Victorian serial m…

A Master Hand

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


Richard Dallas


This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a fictional crime that took place in the New York City of 1883…

The Eight Strokes of the Clock (Version 2)

Read by Cate Barratt


Maurice Leblanc


The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of short stories centred on Arsène Lupin, former gentleman thief extraordinaire. In th…

Lanagan Amateur Detective

Read by David Wales


Edward H. Hurlbut


This is a 1913 collection of ten short detective stories by a not well known writer. Jack Lanagan is a police reporter for a daily newspaper…

Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

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Thomas Peckett Prest


This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…

The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

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Laura Lee Hope


The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well - what with fishing, playing with…

The Case Of The Registered Letter

Read by David Wales


Augusta Groner and Auguste Groner


A man is found shot dead and the man to whom all evidence points insists he is innocent. (Summary by David Wales)

The Diamond Master

Read by Dawn Larsen


Jacques Futrelle


A perfect diamond worth millions is mailed, in a plain package, to a diamond dealer. Then he finds that identical diamonds were delivered to…

The Masquerader

Read by Tom Weiss


Katherine Cecil Thurston


The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…

A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta

Read by Peter John Keeble


Guy Boothby


Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola m…

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