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A Municipal Report
Read by Warren Kati
O. Henry
In Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characte…
Part II - Chapter XV
Read by Warren Kati
Wilkie Collins
In My Lady's Money
Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…
Cornelli
Read by Jael Baldwin
Johanna Spyri
Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…
On the Gemmi Pass
Read by Devorah Allen
Johanna Spyri
In Little Miss Grasshopper
The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…
Chapter LII
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Anna Katharine Green
In The Step on the Stair
Green's last published detective novel, The Step on the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks…
Found by the Missing Link
Read by Warren Kati
William Livingston Alden
In Short Science Fiction Collection 103
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Section 8
Read by Warren Kati
Margaret Wilson
In The Able McLaughlins
The Able McLaughlins won the Pulitzer Prize for a novel in 1924 in Margaret Wilson's debut work. Aptly described as "Little House on th…
Section 4
Read by Warren Kati
Bruce Wallis
In The Abysmal Horror
While on holiday at an inexpensive English seaside resort, twenty-six-year-old Batson was contemplating the monotony of his life when he wit…
After Twenty Years by O. Henry
Read by Warren Kati
O. Henry
In Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Librivox readers have come together to bring you another diverse collection of short stories. This anthology brings you selections from Thom…
A Summons
Read by Laura Victoria
Anna Katharine Green
In One of My Sons
A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry …
18 REFLECTIONS
Read by Michele Eaton
Anna Katharine Green
In Dark Hollow
The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is conv…
Rescued
Read by Warren Kati
Horatio Alger, Jr.
In In Search of Treasure
Guy Fenwick is a bright boy of 16 who lives with his clergyman father near New Bedford, Massachusetts. Guy receives permission from his fath…
In Kito’s Care
Read by Inkell
Carolyn Wells
In The Mark of Cain
Murder mystery #8 by the prolific American author Carolyn Wells, featuring her famous detective, Fleming Stone (though that detective isn’t …
17 - Sister Theresa
Read by Eric Leach
Meredith Nicholson
In The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2)
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference t…
Chapter 10
Read by Warren Kati
Jack London
In The Abysmal Brute
Young Pat Glendon is twenty-two years old, weighs two-hundred and twenty pounds, has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco and knows little…
Chapter XXVII
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
Chapter XVIII - A Visitor from the States
Read by Anna Simon
R. Austin Freeman
In A Silent Witness
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…
Chapter 15 - The Visitor
Read by Kirsten Wever
Louis Tracy
In The Bartlett Mystery
This is a fast-paced mystery, set in New York City, has two or three really interesting ("round") characters, a solid plot, no che…
Katharine the Queen, Part 2
Read by Warren Kati
Martin A. S. Hume
In The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History
King Henry VIII is so often depicted as a far-seeing statesman, pressing forward through a lifetime with his eyes firmly fixed upon the goal…
Auntie Sue Takes a Chance
Read by Warren Kati
Harold Bell Wright
In The Re-creation of Brian Kent
Brian Kent is a bank clerk who is driven by a variety of circumstances to commit a series of thefts from his employer. Remorseful, drunk, s…