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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Meredith Nicholson - House of a Thousand Candles

A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 28 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

571

G. K. Chesterton - Manalive

The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all...

Ray Clare 6 hours 12 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

607

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the...

Great Plains 18 hours 38 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

576

Anna Katharine Green - Initials Only

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally...

Lucy Burgoyne and 14 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

550

Christopher Morley - Haunted Bookshop

Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop , a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is «haunted by the ghosts of all great literature.» Beginning with the arrival of a young...

J. M. Smallheer 5 hours 34 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

545

Margaret Penrose - Motor Girls

When Cora Kimball got her new auto for her birthday she had no idea what adventures would start for her and her brother Jack. Where did Ed’s money and bonds disappear? Were they misplaced or were they stolen and...

Lucy Burgoyne 6 hours 8 minutes

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Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

Crime & Mystery Fiction

535

H. Rider Haggard - Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life

This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure! This is the tale of an ancient...

Esther 12 hours 11 minutes

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Anthony Trollope - Eustace Diamonds

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest...

Laura Koskinen and 19 more 27 hours 31 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Frank L. Packard - White Moll

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) born in Montreal, Quebec, was a Canadian novelist. Packard is credited with bridging the gap from the “cozy” style mysteries to the more gritty, hard-boiled...

Rowdy Delaney 8 hours 44 minutes

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Short Mystery Story Collection 003

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

RK Wilcox and 4 more 5 hours 19 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Jean Webster - Four-Pools Mystery

In The Four Pools Mystery the tyrannical plantation owner is deemed responsible for his own murder because of his mistreatment of the former slaves who continued in his employment after the war. Jean Webster...

Lucy Burgoyne 7 hours 3 minutes

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Edgar Wallace - Angel of Terror (version 2)

Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new victim's riches including lies and murder. Only Jack Glover the lawyer of...

Allyson Hester 6 hours 58 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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