Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Gladys Edson Locke - That Affair at Portstead Manor

An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a woman whose common sense, calm, and plain logic are skillfully employed in...

J. M. Smallheer 5 hours 42 minutes

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George Eggleston - Man of Honor

New Yorker Robert Pagebrook travels to Virginia to visit relatives. The Civil War has ended and family ties are in order to be re-established. All goes well; the family relationships are as they should be, perhaps...

Roger Melin 5 hours 54 minutes

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Frederick Irving Anderson - Adventures Of The Infallible Godahl

Frederick Irving Anderson was a New York newspaperman who had a second career writing mystery stories for the «slick» magazines such as the Saturday Evening Post. The Infallible Godahl is a collection of some of his...

Winston Tharp 5 hours 3 minutes

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Warwick Deeping - Mad Barbara

It is the last quarter of the eighteenth century and a young woman discovers the body of her murdered father. In her grief, she tries to make sense of why this sweet man, beloved by all, was struck down and, unlike...

Lynne T 11 hours 28 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Nobody's Man

Brigadier general Andrew Tallente, late of Parliament, is implicated in the death of his male secretary, the son of a classmate at Eton. Seems the younger man may have not only been having an affair with the hero's...

VfkaBT 8 hours 40 minutes

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Arthur Machen - Terror: A Mystery

In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror. — Summary by A. Gramour

OCTL7 and 5 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Richard Marsh - Datchet Diamonds

Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambler planning to leave the country to escape his losses, reads this news item...

Jacquerie 5 hours 32 minutes

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Nat Gould - Who Did It?

Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. But no sooner is the campaign underway than his body turns up in Sydney...

Phil Benson 6 hours 13 minutes

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Alice MacGowan - Million-Dollar Suitcase

Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered in his seventh-story apartment, the thief seems to vanish into thin air. Boyne...

Mark Nelson 8 hours 47 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Hoofbeats on the Turnpike

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the «Riverview...

Cheryl Adam 4 hours 41 minutes

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A. E. W. Mason - Witness for the Defence

Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? Much can change in that time — both to the people themselves, and to the...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 57 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Woman in White - version 2

Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among «people like us», Featuring...

Tony Addison 30 hours 8 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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