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The Forgery
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
Blackthorn Farm
Read by Tony Oliva
Arthur Applin
But he was afraid. He had failed twice already. He could not afford to fail a third time. If he failed ruin faced him, and disgrace. His fat…
The House on the Borderland
Read by Alan Winterrowd
William Hope Hodgson
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, …
A Man Obsessed
Read by Mark Nelson
Alan Edward Nourse and Alan E. Nourse
Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered a…
The Spinster Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Myrtle Reed
A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…
The Manchester Man
Read by Phil Benson
Isabella Varley Banks
Jabez Clegg, the Manchester man, floats into this historical novel in 1799, carried downstream by the River Irk in flood. Jabez's rise to co…
Obstinate Refusal of the Dead to Address Us
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Afternoon Play: The Obstinate Refusal of the Dead to Address Us Tue 27th May 2003, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM A dark comedy by Neil Griffiths. …
Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…
Lord Montagu's Page
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
That House I Bought; A Little Leaf From Life
Read by David Wales
Henry Edward Warner
This is a whimsical, entertaining, tongue in cheek narrative of the author’s purchase of a house, circa 1911. - Summary by david wales
Darnley
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple.…
The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich
Read by Liam Brady
Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Clough provides us with a timeless coming of age story involving a young Englishman studying in Scotland who falls in love. - Summar…
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Sir Harry Hotspur’s only son and heir dies young which means that the title goes to a cousin, George Hotspur. Sir Harry wants the ancestral …
Neville Watchurst A Vital Flaw
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Saturday-Night Theatre: A Vital Flaw First broadcast: Sat 29th Jul 1995, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM Neville Watchurst'…
That Pup
Read by David Wales
Ellis Parker Butler
A puppy, unannounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales
The Benefit of the Doubt
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Arthur Wing Pinero
The plot resolves around a young woman being cited in court as "The Other Woman" in a divorce case, and how her family reacts to i…
The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Louis Tracy
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder…
The Tale of Peter Mink
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark E…
Scottish Ghost Stories
Read by Sherry Morrow
Elliott O'Donnell
A public domain collection of Scottish Ghost tales by Elliott O'Donnell. 1911 - Summary by Sherry Morrow