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Charles Warren Adams - Notting Hill Mystery

Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of «The Notting Hill Mystery», thought to be the first full length detective novel in...

Kevin Green 4 hours 59 minutes

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Burton Egbert Stevenson - Holladay Case

Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in the murder trial of Wall Street multi-millionaire Hiram Holladay. Scandalously,...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 38 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Jacob's Ladder

This is a story about Jacob Pratt who “stood bond” for his brother and then lost all his money and was unable to pay his debts. Two years later his brother is finally able to restore him to an enviable financial...

Richard Kilmer 6 hours 31 minutes

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Augusta Huiell Seaman - Girl Next Door

Marcia Brett has noticed unusual activity at the ramshackle and seemingly abandoned mansion next door: a mysterious, veiled lady is seen coming and going out the front door, a different woman is glimpsed through a...

Jennifer Dallman 4 hours 15 minutes

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George Barr McCutcheon - Yollop

Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to be...prison. This humorous satire takes a somewhat different look at...

Barry Eads 1 hour 59 minutes

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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