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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Dangerous Days

Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central Powers in the first world war. Clayton Spencer, a successful industrialist...

Nicholas Clifford 12 hours 22 minutes

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392

Anna Katharine Green - Circular Study

In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in...

Jacquerie 6 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

427

Louis Joseph Vance - Red Masquerade

In the beginning of his career, Michael Lanyard alias The Lone Wolf, the most talented thief of his day, made the acquaintance of the beautiful Princess Sofia, but he also made an enemy of her husband, Prince Victor....

CaprishaPage and 8 more 8 hours 10 minutes

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American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of «The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes» released on Librivox, here is a collection of stories starring his contemporary American rivals. Brought together and re-published in a...

K.G.Cross and 11 more 12 hours 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

434

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes and Co.

Raffles Holmes is introduced in these stories as the son of the great Sherlock Holmes. He is also revealed to be the grandson of A.J. Raffles, a gentleman thief pursued by Sherlock Holmes many years earlier. This...

ToddHW and 1 more 3 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

450

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study In Scarlet (Version 4)

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the...

Bob Neufeld 4 hours 45 minutes

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Avenger

Herbert Wrayson, a bachelor returns to his flat one night to find a young lady rifling his desk. He questions her and finds she thought she was in the apartment of his neighbor, Morris Barnes, who lives above him....

Tom Weiss 7 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

435

John Thomas McIntyre - Ashton-Kirk, Investigator

Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, and of high social position, he is nevertheless an indefatigable worker in his...

Pete Milan 8 hours 9 minutes

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General Fiction

429

Edgar Pangborn - Trial of Callista Blake

In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and to the people who thronged the crowded courtroom, many of them friends of the...

Roger Melin 13 hours 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

422

E. Phillips Oppenheim - Pawns Count

«I am for England and England only,» John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. «I am for Japan and Japan only,» Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. «I am for Germany first and America afterwards,» Oscar Fischer, the...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mary Louisa Molesworth - Carved Lions

When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especially when the lions come to life and help take care of them. This is a...

ilianthe and 2 more 3 hours 46 minutes

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Geraldine Bonner - Girl at Central

Molly Morganthau, day operator in the telephone exchange, helps to solve a murder. (Summary by D. A. Frank)

D. A. Frank and 1 more 5 hours 41 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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