Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Wyndham Martyn - Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes successful crime fiction stories, but this doesn't pay enough for him to do...

Anna Simon 8 hours 21 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Yellow House

Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that will change everything they thought to be real in their lives. (Summary by...

Sharon Kilmer 7 hours 19 minutes

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William Le Queux - As We Forgive Them

Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton are bachelors who share a flat on Great Russell Street. Neither are especially prosperous but through economies, they manage to live well. One of their hobbies is fox hunting. One...

Tom Weiss 6 hours 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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William Le Queux - Whither Thou Goest

The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her against all opposition. He determined to separate the lovers; to which end he...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 50 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Hand and Ring

Widow Clemmens is struck down in her parlor while the town's legal professionals chat outside the courthouse down the street. An investigation is made and two equally plausible suspects are quickly unearthed. But is...

Richard Kilmer 16 hours 43 minutes

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Jack Boyle - Boston Blackie

Boston Blackie is the novelization of a group of pulp short stories by Jack Boyle (1881-1928). Blackie, an ex-con with a college education, is a jewel thief based in San Francisco, who outwits the cops with the help...

Winston Tharp 7 hours 34 minutes

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Henry James - Turn of the Screw (version 2)

Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an isolated country estate, who believes they are being haunted. As the story...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 36 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3)

The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations. Such is the setting for the most horrific Sherlock Holmes story ever...

Lady Maria and 7 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Meredith Nicholson - House of a Thousand Candles (version 2)

A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference to candle light, is left empty save a faithful servant — his fortune...

Eric Leach 7 hours 29 minutes

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Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's...

Margaret Espaillat and 8 more 11 hours 22 minutes

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Gaston Leroux - Phantom of the Opera (version 2)

Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house. Her musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her an angel of music to look after her. She grows up and discovers that she is hearing a voice,...

Ralph Snelson 8 hours 39 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Trees of Pride

Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. To prove them wrong, once and for all, he takes a bet to...

Maria Therese 2 hours 15 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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