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Detective Fiction

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Grace Johnson - Roman Collar Detective

A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled with politics and it takes a parish priest to discover «whodunit» in this...

Maria Therese 4 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

398

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Secret of Lonesome Cove

A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them...

Roger Melin 7 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

456

Marcel Allain - Exploits of Juve

Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

423

Daniel A. Lord - Murder in the Sacristy

A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer. But is the priest the guilty party — or is it the communist — the nazi — the...

Maria Therese 3 hours 19 minutes

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Detective Fiction

401

Grace Isabel Colbron - Case of the Golden Bullet

Joseph Muller, quiet mannered detective, tries to solve the mystery of a man who died in his study, by a bullet hole in the chest. But all windows and doors were locked, from the inside. (summary by Dawn Larsen)

Dawn Larsen 1 hour 34 minutes

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Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

Historical Fiction

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Émile Gaboriau - Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name

Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's...

Lazuli and 6 more 17 hours 4 minutes

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Detective Fiction

523

Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body? (Version 2)

Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles Parker, who...

Kirsten Wever 6 hours 58 minutes

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General Fiction

425

William Le Queux - Hushed Up! A Mystery of London

A young man, Owen Biddulph, is drawn to a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past… a past that seems to have returned to cause her disappearance! Is she his new found love or his nemesis? And who is this...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

449

H. M. Egbert - Jacqueline of Golden River

Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her name nor where she...

Roger Melin 7 hours 16 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

462

Georgette Heyer - Black Moth (version 2)

Jack Carstares, oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, has been disgraced by his brother. Gone for six years, living the life a highwayman he meets the woman he will fall in love with. Saving her from being kidnapped by a...

Terra Mendoza 10 hours 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

413

Johnston McCulley - Black Star

The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at...

Roger Melin 8 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

454

Chester K. Steele - Diamond Cross Mystery

Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stolen. Whodunnit, and how can the Colonel's expertise in fishing help to solve...

ashleighjane and 10 more 6 hours 38 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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