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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Meade Falkner - Lost Stradivarius

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title...

Clarica and 6 more 5 hours 19 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Secret Passage

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: «That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek,...

Dawn Larsen and 6 more 9 hours 11 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Woman in the Alcove

«I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate.» Thus begins...

Wina Hathaway and 6 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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Anna Maynard Barbour - That Mainwaring Affair

As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagine the shocking chain of events that he is about to set into motion. This...

J. M. Smallheer 9 hours 24 minutes

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Frank L. Packard - Adventures of Jimmie Dale

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels,...

Maire Rhode and 6 more 19 hours 1 minute Jimmie Dale

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jules Verne - Master of the World

Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an...

Mark F. Smith 4 hours 54 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Strange Disappearance

Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally...

Nichole Karl and 8 more 5 hours 35 minutes

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Short Mystery Story Collection 002

LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Ralph Snelson and 6 more 4 hours 14 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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Marie Belloc Lowndes - Lodger

«The story is about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer known only as „The Avenger“ in London, who has been killing young blonde women. Meanwhile, a mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for...

Lee Ann Howlett 7 hours 42 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Margaret O. Oliphant - Open Door and The Portrait

Two stories «of the seen and unseen» with mysterious occurrences by Margaret O. Oliphant, originally published in 1881. (Summary by Gesine)

Katie Gibboney and 1 more 3 hours 32 minutes

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black)

Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black ) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is...

Katie Gibboney and 3 more 7 hours 4 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - That Affair Next Door

The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of the house had been on vacation and the place empty. Who was she and why was...

Dawn Larsen 11 hours 9 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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