Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Justin McCarthy - Riddle Ring

This romantic mystery — or mysterious romance — tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad?...

Ruth Golding 11 hours 25 minutes

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Breaking Point

Mary Roberts Rinehart — «America's Agatha Christie,» as she used to be called — set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor,...

Nicholas Clifford 11 hours 27 minutes

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Katherine Cecil Thurston - Masquerader

The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other, The Gambler, is also in the Librivox collection). The Masquerader is part...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 16 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

520

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Oakdale Affair

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jack London / H.H. Knibbs-inspired, selfless, poetry-spouting, hobo character, Bridge, makes another appearance in the novellete, The Oakdale Affair (original title, Bridge and the Oskalooska...

Ralph Snelson 4 hours 4 minutes

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Short Mystery Story Collection 007

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 007: a collection of 16 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox volunteers.

Simon Evers and 7 more 7 hours 47 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Wilkie Collins - Law and the Lady

Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and friends. Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents lead Valeria to...

Wiebke 13 hours 25 minutes

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William Le Queux - Czar's Spy

William Le Queux was a British novelist and prolific writer of mysteries. Indeed, mystery surrounds the author himself as to whether he was a spy or rather just a self-promoter. Regardless of which is true, Le Queux...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 35 minutes

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R. Austin Freeman - Uttermost Farthing

Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological abnormalities but also 24 articulated human skeletons without any apparent...

MaryAnn 4 hours 56 minutes

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Émile Zola - Therese Raquin

An unsatisfied wife kills her weak husband in order to carry on a sordid affair with another man. However, her selfish plans are spoiled when her husband continues to haunt her. This is often said to be Zola's first...

Bellona Times and 5 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Miriam Michelson - In the Bishop's Carriage

Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by its occupants, Nance and her criminal boyfriend, Tom Dorgan, are pulling a...

Lee Ann Howlett 5 hours 28 minutes

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Short Mystery Story Collection 006

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 006: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Simon Evers and 4 more 6 hours 19 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Octavus Roy Cohen - Midnight

The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--there were simply no trails. The circumstances baffled explanation--a lone...

Roger Melin 6 hours 19 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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