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Dashiell Hammett - Five Continental Op Stories

Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Continental Op walked early twentieth century San Francisco’s mean streets...

Winston Tharp 2 hours 40 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Middle Temple Murder (version 2)

A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way home after a long night on the job. But his newshound instincts kick in. Who...

Lynne T 8 hours 8 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 5)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Each of the stories are told in a first-person style from the...

StudioMike 9 hours 35 minutes

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Richard Marsh - Judith Lee - Pages From Her Life

Judith Lee is a young woman with an unusual gift, she can read lips at a distance as well as she can hear the person next to her. Her skill leads her into a number of adventures. Written by Richard Marsh (The Beetle,...

Alan Winterrowd 3 hours 48 minutes

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Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories

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Joel Chandler Harris - Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories

While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. The stories in this collection follow detectives as they unravel mysteries in...

Maria Melodia Queri and 5 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Helen Randolph - Secret of Casa Grande

While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the rooms of an ancient adobe house. Curious to find out what it is, the girls...

Mary Escano 4 hours 30 minutes

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Helen Wells - Clue of the Gold Coin

Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Barr Air Stewardess Series. When a shipment of priceless gold doubloons being...

amitsharma 4 hours 11 minutes

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R. Austin Freeman - John Thorndyke's Cases

Detective John Thorndyke never disappoints when solving crime in this collection of Freeman's works. — Summary by A. K. Morton

Sandra Cullum 8 hours 52 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Doctor Izard

The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one of them. The story then shifts to another town where, years earlier, Polly...

Lee Smalley 5 hours 1 minute

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Fred M. White - Corner House

A deserted house with a troubled past. A mysterious countess who captivates everyone with her wealth and beauty — well, almost everyone. An equally mysterious derelict who holds a secret to the countess's past. A...

Jacquerie 7 hours 22 minutes

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Geraldine Bonner - Black Eagle Mystery

A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a black organization, cornering the market on copper, and about to be exposed to...

Mike Overby 6 hours 1 minute

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Robert Eustace - Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries

Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace that appeared in Harmsworth/London Magazine. Mr. Bovey's...

J. M. Smallheer 2 hours 13 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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