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Detective Fiction

497

R. Austin Freeman - Mystery of 31 New Inn

Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, equally cunning and smart, smells something fishy. With stylish cool and logic,...

BrandonM and 7 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

554

William Godwin - Caleb Williams or Things As They Are

The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary....

Bev J Stevens 16 hours 53 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

554

Francis Marion Crawford - Man Overboard

Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin...

Roger Melin 1 hour 46 minutes

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Detective Fiction

564

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Valley of Fear

Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are preceded by either a murder or a suicide. A secretive organization lies culprit...

Katie Riley 6 hours 22 minutes

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Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

632

Wilkie Collins - Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum. Who was the...

Nathalie J. 6 hours 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

461

Sax Rohmer - Hand of Fu-Manchu

Further adventures of Nayland Smith and Doctor Petrie as they continue their battles against the evil genius, Dr Fu-Manchu. (summary by Elaine Twiddle)

laineyben 6 hours 32 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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Detective Fiction

512

Thomas W. Hanshew - Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces

Meet Hamilton Cleek — man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do. Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are...

Ruth Golding 13 hours 25 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

592

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1

In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in...

Jim Jacobson and 10 more 10 hours 55 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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General Fiction

547

Johnston McCulley - Brand of Silence

Harrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence — A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years...

Roger Melin 6 hours 53 minutes

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Detective Fiction

513

R. Austin Freeman - Red Thumb Mark

Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too. Will he be able to solve this case? The Red Thumb Mark is the first...

Chelsea Baker and 7 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

472

Sax Rohmer - Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu

Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from...

laineyben 7 hours 28 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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Action & Adventure Fiction

478

Sax Rohmer - Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

The first of the Fu-Manchu novels, this story follows the two characters who are set against the machinations of the insidious doctor.(Summary by FNH)

FNH 7 hours 19 minutes The Fu-Manchu Series by Sax Rohmer

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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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