Detective Fiction

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Arthur J. Rees - Shrieking Pit

The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective, is holidaying in East Anglia when he notices a young man at a nearby table...

Kevin Green 8 hours 57 minutes

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Detective Fiction

421

Maurice Leblanc - Crystal Stopper

During a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq a crime is committed, and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police. One is guilty of the crime, the other innocent, but both will be sentenced to...

Cate Barratt 6 hours 54 minutes

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Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Detective Fiction

410

Percy James Brebner - Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Police Detective Murray Wigan in solving various crimes and mysteries in...

Tony Posante 7 hours 29 minutes

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General Fiction

422

Louis Joseph Vance - Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made...

William Tomcho and 6 more 8 hours 3 minutes

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Detective Fiction

431

Anna Katharine Green - One of My Sons

A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry for help only to find himself as the last person to see her grandfather alive...

Laura Victoria 9 hours 53 minutes

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Detective Fiction

420

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study in Scarlet (version 3)

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...

ashleighjane 4 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

436

Maurice Leblanc - 813

As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloured name. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 10 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

414

Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains stories...

Bear Schacht and 7 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

428

Fergus Hume - Lady from Nowhere

A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (Introduction by MaryAnn)

MaryAnn 6 hours 7 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

420

J. S. Fletcher - Orange-Yellow Diamond

A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Murder, theft, and love, all the ingredients for a wonderful...

8 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

449

William Le Queux - Sign of Silence

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

444

George Manville Fenn - Peril Finders

In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there...

Elaine Webb and 9 more 16 hours 21 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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