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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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Detective Fiction

505

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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Detective Fiction

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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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Detective Fiction

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Robert Eustace - Brotherhood of the Seven Kings

«THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever have existed in the London of our day may seem impossible. Such a society,...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1

This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it...

Annika Feilbach and 21 more 21 hours 6 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a «tale of ratiocination» featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as...

Reynard T. Fox 1 hour 34 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Roy J. Snell - Blue Envelope

A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska.

Dawn Larsen 4 hours 37 minutes

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Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow

Detective Fiction

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Grace Isabel Colbron - Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow

The account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the Imperial Austrian Police. (from the text)

Dawn Larsen 1 hour 48 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Dead Men Tell No Tales

Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and was born in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham during some of...

Cori Samuel and 11 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Daffodil Mystery

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over...

J. M. Smallheer and 11 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Short Mystery Story Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Mark Nelson and 8 more 7 hours 18 minutes Short Mystery Collections

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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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