Crime & Mystery Fiction

The Dream Doctor

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Arthur B. Reeve


The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific …

The Ear In The Wall

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Arthur B. Reeve


Craig Kennedy is a man who thinks outside the box. A skilled detective using the cutting edge technology of his time, he uses his skills to …

The House on the Downs

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Gladys Edson Locke


Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs…

The Trial of Callista Blake

Read by Roger Melin


Edgar Pangborn


In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and t…

The String of Pearls (dramatic reading)

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Unknown


Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett…

The Red Hand

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Arthur Machen


Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. - Summary by…

The Great Pearl Secret

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Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson


It is the afternoon before a grand society wedding between Juliet Phayre and the Duke of Claremanagh, when Emmy West drops by to visit the b…

Una comida en casa de Rossini

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Alexandre Dumas


Dumas concurre a una cena en casa de Rossini el célebre compositor y gran chef italiano. En esa cena se encuentra con otros destacado…

Zigzags of Treachery and other stories

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Dashiell Hammett


The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wi…

Novelas y Cuentos (Version 2)

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Edgar Allan Poe


Compilación de algunos de los más famosos y celebrados cuentos del gran Edgar Allan Poe. Referencia obligada para los amantes …

The Technique of the Mystery Story

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Carolyn Wells


For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…

Thou Art The Man

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Sibyl married after assuming that her cousin, with whom she was in love, died. However, said cousin, who suffers from epilepsy, found himsel…

One Life, One Love

Read by Celine Major


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Clara and Robert Hatrell lead an ideal life with their young daughter Daisy in a beautiful old fashioned cottage on the banks of the Thames.…

The House of Dust

Read by Ben Tucker


L. A. Borah


The old Lamont House sits still out in the Louisiana swamp, covered in dust and seemingly untouched since that terrible murder that occurred…

The Yellow Claw

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Sax Rohmer


When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…

The Delafield Affair

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Florence Finch Kelly


New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. …

Dope

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Sax Rohmer


A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disapp…

Yollop

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George Barr Mccutcheon


Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to…

Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

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Jack Boyle


Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became d…

The Goddess: A Demon

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Richard Marsh


After a night of drinking and gambling, John Ferguson has a terrifying dream of his neighbor being violently torn to shreds by an unknown at…

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