Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Stolen Idols

Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the supernatural. Carved by Chinese craftsmen, they have stood to either side of...

Jacquerie 8 hours 41 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

466

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four (version 4)

Treasure, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, love, murder, and revenge. One of Arthur Conan Doyle's four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by Karen Savage)

ashleighjane 4 hours 19 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

444

Louis Tracy - Postmaster's Daughter

A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and other colorful characters as it is about the murder. Filled with comic antics of Scotland Yard fellows, local...

Sharon Kilmer 7 hours 37 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

475

Carolyn Wells - Man Who Fell Through the Earth

A lawyer is leaving his office on the top floor of an office building. He sees the shadows of two men fighting through the clouded glass of an office door followed by a shot from the office across the hall. He goes to...

Richard Kilmer 6 hours 42 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

468

Anna Katharine Green - Forsaken Inn

Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, «The Forsaken Inn» is a locked-room mystery that keeps readers guessing about what has happened. A...

Richard Kilmer 6 hours 31 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

474

Maurice Leblanc - Arsène Lupin

This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated by detective fiction writer Edgar Jepson and published in English, in 1909,...

Leni 7 hours 46 minutes

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Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate

Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Louis Tracy - Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate

Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder case of his cousin, Alan. Though he was never convicted, suspicion clings to...

Crln Yldz Ksr 9 hours 46 minutes

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Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2)

Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Maurice Leblanc - Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2)

This collection of independent stories first published between 1905 and 1907 in the magazine Je Sais Tout recounts the tales of Arsène Lupin, the famous gentleman-burglar: the first story marks the introduction of the...

Leni 6 hours 2 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

444

J. S. Fletcher - Borough Treasurer

Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasurer of the borough. But when an ex-detective moves to town, 30 years of...

MaryAnn 7 hours 56 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Shadow of a Man

Set in rural Australia, this mystery novel follows a pair of newlyweds who are determined to make their improbable marriage work, no matter the odds. But little do they know exactly how high the odds are stacked...

Brendan Nelson-Weiss and 11 more 3 hours 50 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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R. Austin Freeman - Vanishing Man

A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished. Perhaps he has died; perhaps not;but the issue is...

Nicholas Clifford 9 hours 50 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Amiable Charlatan (version 2)

A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. — Summary by Cate Barratt

Cate Barratt 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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