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Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

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Jack Boyle - Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp

Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became dependent upon the drug to make his deadlines, lost his job, and turned to...

Winston Tharp 2 hours 40 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Cynthia Wakeham's Money

A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs...

Richard Kilmer 8 hours 46 minutes

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Harris Burland - Black Motor Car

Head over heels in love with the amazingly beautiful Mrs. de la Mothe, Jack Portheous is led to embezzle a large sum of money from the bank at which he works, and plans to elope with her to South America. On the eve...

Dru Conway and 9 more 9 hours 47 minutes

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Geraldine Bonner - Miss Maitland, Private Secretary

Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on Long Island. Before Molly can crack the case, a more shocking crime is...

Holly Jenson 8 hours 19 minutes

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E. W. Hornung - Camera Fiend

A London schoolboy playing hooky is drawn in to the clutches of a creature evil beyond imagining.(summary by Judi Mason)

Judi Mason 7 hours 46 minutes

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Henry James - Other House

A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-knit community of people. — Summary by (shih-ping)

KirkL and 3 more 7 hours 34 minutes

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William Nelson Taft - On Secret Service

Detective-Mystery stories based on real cases solved by government agents. Created initially in 1865, the U.S. Secret Service continued to expand over the years, particularly following the assassination of President...

Roger Melin 11 hours 55 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Rough Justice

Who murdered Lisa Rainer? Is it her former lover who went to seek fortune in Africa and fell in love with another on the way back? Were there any blood motives? Detective John Thorne would have to discover. Inspired...

Marina and 3 more 10 hours 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frederik Pohl - Plague of Pythons

In a post-apocalyptic world where every government in the world has been overrun by its own military machinery, only to see that military machinery self-destruct, people are randomly being affected by a plague that...

Nick Bulka 4 hours 17 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson - Secret Pact

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 27 minutes

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Frank L. Packard - Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue

Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, is back in the criminal underworld of New York. He is desperately trying to find the criminal called the Phantom, alias Gentleman Laroque, in order to protect...

Anna Simon 10 hours 17 minutes Jimmie Dale

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Carolyn Wells - Chain of Evidence

The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, «if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of...

Richard Kilmer 7 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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