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Richard Henry Savage - Midnight Passenger

Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hugh Worthington’s motives were not altruistic – he had a secret to hide and a...

MaryAnn 8 hours 22 minutes

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Detective Fiction

568

Wilkie Collins - Basil

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin,...

CrowGirl and 8 more 11 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

503

Anna Katharine Green - X Y Z - A Detective Story

«Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

514

Andre Norton - Ralestone Luck

Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne--but with no family money or prestige, the title is worthless. He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead--Pirate's Haven. Their only...

Gabriel Glenn 5 hours 52 minutes

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General Fiction

447

Thomas W. Hanshew - Riddle of the Frozen Flame

Another full-length mystery story featuring Hamilton Cleek, whom we met first in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces . This time, Cleek investigates the sinister disappearance of people and the mysterious...

Ruth Golding 8 hours 7 minutes

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William Hope Hodgson - Carnacki, the Ghost Finder

Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by Wiliam Hope Hodgson. Hodsgon, also a noted photographer and bodybuilder, might have created more stories for this intrepid...

Samanem and 1 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3

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...

Katie Riley and 10 more 11 hours 14 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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General Fiction

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (version 2)

Sherlock Holmes, a fictional character of the late 19th and early 20th century created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is a brilliant London-based «consulting detective» famous for his...

Eric Leach 7 hours 33 minutes

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General Fiction

481

Rex Stout - Under the Andes

Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps his future writing style is still blossoming, certainly his knack for...

Roger Melin 10 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

548

E. W. Hornung - Shadow of the Rope

Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury...

Jacquerie 8 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

539

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wylder's Hand

The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But...

Tina Nuzzi and 11 more 17 hours 1 minute

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur B. Reeve - Silent Bullet

The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 — August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American mystery writer who created 82 Craig Kennedy mystery stories. The stories...

Elliott Miller 8 hours 56 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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