Political & Thrillers

A Yellow Journalist

Read by Lee Ann Howlett


Miriam Michelson


Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on…

Tom of the Raiders

Read by Brett W. Downey


Austin Bishop and William Henry Bishop


Young Adult historical fiction of a young man joining the Union Army and taking part in the Great Locomotive Chase. (Summary by Brett Downey…

City of Endless Night

Read by Kate Follis


Milo Hastings


An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a …

Find the Woman

Read by Grant Hurlock


Frank Gelett Burgess


Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, int…

The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 1: The Vicomte de Bragelonne: Ten Years La…

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. The first begins in 1660, ten years after Volume 2, with d’Artagnan as Lieu…

The Return of Clubfoot

Read by Mark Nelson


Valentine Williams


Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a…

Das Spinnennetz

Read by Availle


Joseph Roth


Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

Read by Bev J Stevens


Rita


A group of guests, at an exclusive luxury hotel in Hampshire, are the witnesses of an illustration of occult powers, demonstrated by “the My…

La Conspiration des milliardaires

Read by Isad


Gustave Guitton


De l’espionnage industriel, une guerre commerciale entre les États-Unis et l’Europe (ou plutôt la France), des inventeurs qui r…

Miss Pim's Camouflage

Read by Grant Hurlock


Dorothy Tennant


Mid-WWI, staid Englishwoman Miss Perdita Pim suffers a sunstroke gardening & gains the power of invisibility. She becomes a super-secre…

The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This is the first volume of Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances (also called "The Memoirs of a Physician"). This historical fiction c…

The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee…

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William Makepeace Thackeray


A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne - a story of…

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2)

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to hi…

Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle

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Charlotte Turner Smith


This book was written about 150 years ahead of its time. It tells the story of Emmeline Mobwray who grows up in a dysfunctional family and h…

The Rebel Rose

Read by Deanna Bovee


Justin Mccarthy


The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

Read by Ruth Golding


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some…

The House of Whispers

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William Le Queux


This is a story about a young lady and her blind father who live in a House of Whispers. "There is a legend that those who hear the whi…

The Devil's Garden

Read by Tom Weiss


William Babington Maxwell


Risque for its time, but tame by today's standards, The Devil's Garden is a story of passion and mystery. William Dale, the main character o…

Michael Strogoff, de Koerier van den Czaar

Read by Bart de Leeuw


Jules Verne


Michael Strogoff wordt door de tsaar gevraagd een boodschap naar diens broer, de grootvorst van het veraf gelegen Irkoetsk, te brengen. Hij …

Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples

Read by John Van Stan


Alexandre Dumas


The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regi…

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