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Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches

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William Clark Russell - Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches

This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages.

Lala Young and 16 more 9 hours 58 minutes

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Earl Derr Biggers - Seven Keys to Baldpate

Dime-store novelist William Magee has gone to Baldpate Inn to do a little soul-searching in an attempt to write a serious work. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of...

Susan Umpleby and 4 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Myrtle Reed - Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading)

Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint...

7 hours 30 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Amiable Charlatan

An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating his food, and hands him a packet underneath the table! So begins Paul...

ToddHW and 4 more 6 hours 20 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Fenton's Quest

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all...

Anna Simon and 5 more 16 hours 49 minutes

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John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall

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Herbert George Jenkins - John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall

John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him,...

William Tomcho and 3 more 7 hours 55 minutes

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Paul Dickey - Ghost Breaker (Dramatic Reading)

The Ghost Breaker is a drama and haunted house horror complete with heroes, villains, and a Princess. The Ghost Breaker was originally a screenplay and would later be made a drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille....

5 hours 14 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Bronze Hand

A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which might cause great unknown danger, Mr. Abbott is drawn into the midst of the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 48 minutes

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Grace Livingston Hill - Mystery of Mary

Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young woman at the station. She's terrified that she's being followed and asks Dunham...

Lee Ann Howlett 3 hours 49 minutes

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William Le Queux - Four Faces

Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion regarding a man named Gastrell. Gastrell is somewhat of a mystery...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 14 minutes

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Louisa May Alcott - Mysterious Key and What It Opened

In this delightful short story, we discover the secrets of the Trevlyn family. 'The Mysterious Key and What it Opened' is a mystery entwined with romance (Introduction by ashleighjane)

ashleighjane 1 hour 54 minutes

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Robert Eustace - Sorceress of the Strand

From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it soon becomes clear to both Dixon Druce and his friend, police surgeon Eric...

J. M. Smallheer 4 hours 59 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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