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13 - The Force of Statistics
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
In Literary Lapses
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…
Suzy
Read by Roger Melin
Watson Parker
In Short Science Fiction Collection 044
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Späte Rache
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"Späte Rache" (engl. A Study in Scarlet, deutsch auch unter dem Titel Eine Studie in Scharlachrot erschienen), von Arthur Con…
Chapter III - "Who is Sylvia?"
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…
Gelimer
Read by Sarah B
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
I First See Beatrice
Read by Newgatenovelist
Susan Boogher
In Selected Poems
Susan M. Boogher was twentieth-century poet. These poems were published in Poetry, The Century, Harper's Magazine and The Midland from 1918 …
Chapter 25
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
John Watson and Arthur Rees and Arthur J. Rees
In The Hampstead Mystery
A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…
The First Thousand Digits of Pi
Read by Shurtagal
Scott Hemphill
In Insomnia Collection Vol. 001
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…
A VISIT FROM LOUISE
Read by Alok Karulkar
Mary Roberts Rinehart
In The Circular Staircase
Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 19…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Study In Scarlet
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A Study in Scarlet By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Dramatised for radio by Michael Hardwick With: Carleton Hobb…
XXXIV. M. Max Reports Progress
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Sax Rohmer
In The Yellow Claw
When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…
A Question
Read by Lisa Rose
Mary Jane Holmes
In The English Orphans; Or, A Home in the New World
After Mary Howard and her sisters are left without parents in America, they are put up for adoption. Mary's pretty sister, Ella was adopted …
XIX. "The New Jeanne D'Arc"
Read by Piotr Nater
Violet Tweedale
In Ghosts I Have Seen, and other Psychic Experiences
In 1919, just after the devastation of WWI, Tweedale published these 34 fact-based testimonials, just a sampling of her psychic experiences …
Chapter 8: Mr. Parker Takes Notes
Read by Kirsten Wever
Dorothy L. Sayers
In Clouds of Witness
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…
Reporter and Detective
Read by Gloria Zbilicki
Gaston Leroux
In The Mystery of the Yellow Room
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious wa…
The Lancer's Wife
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Guy de Maupassant
In Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franc…
To My Head Clerk
Read by Newgatenovelist
Iris Barry
In Selected Poems
Iris Barry was a British and American poet, novelist, film critic and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. These poems were…
The Lancer's Wife
Read by James K. White
Guy de Maupassant
In The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
Prologue
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Sapper
In Bulldog Drummond
‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. A…
Concorso per Referendario al Consiglio di Stato
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Luigi Pirandello
In Novelle per un Anno, vol. 10: Il Vecchio Dio
Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere del…