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Jack Boyle - Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, is a jewel thief based in San Francisco, who outwits the cops with the help...

Winston Tharp 7 hours 34 minutes

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Henry James - Turn of the Screw (version 2)

Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an isolated country estate, who believes they are being haunted. As the story...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 36 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)

The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations. Such is the setting for the most horrific Sherlock Holmes story ever...

Lady Maria and 7 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Meredith Nicholson - House of a Thousand Candles (version 2)

A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference to candle light, is left empty save a faithful servant — his fortune...

Eric Leach 7 hours 29 minutes

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Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's...

Margaret Espaillat and 8 more 11 hours 22 minutes

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Gaston Leroux - Phantom of the Opera (version 2)

Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house. Her musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her an angel of music to look after her. She grows up and discovers that she is hearing a voice,...

Ralph Snelson 8 hours 39 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Trees of Pride

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to...

Maria Therese 2 hours 15 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - I Say No

Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman....

Sandra G and 2 more 14 hours 31 minutes

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Maurice Leblanc - Confessions of Arsene Lupin

A collection of nine stories — or confessions — of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 6 hours 19 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Mystery of the Hasty Arrow

It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to...

Richard Kilmer 10 hours 49 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Agatha Webb

A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? Or would it be the cook, who died at about the same time? Or would it be the...

C. Simmons and 8 more 11 hours

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Frederick Arnold Kummer - Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading)

(Written under the pseudonym, Arnold Fredericks.) Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and a viable career. But she soon becomes the target of a malicious...

6 hours 51 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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