Detective Fiction

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master and heir while the rightful heir is condemned to live the life of a slave....

Michael Yard 7 hours 6 minutes

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Detective Fiction

494

J. S. Fletcher - Dead Men's Money

This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems… (Summary by Gesine)

Esther and 12 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Detective Fiction

610

Charles Dickens - Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and readers have often speculated what the ending might have been. The novel is named...

Alan Chant 12 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

555

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sign of the Four

When a young lady approaches Sherlock Holmes looking for help in finding out what happened to her father when he disappeared 10 years earlier, both Holmes and Watson are sent on a mission involving stolen treasure,...

Robin Cotter 4 hours 17 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

491

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Tales of Terror and Mystery

Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories in «Tales of Terror and Mystery», a...

Igor Teaforay and 8 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

699

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles

What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set...

Laurie Anne Walden 5 hours 53 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Mary Roberts Rinehart - Circular Staircase

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 1908 and includes all the elements of the classic whodunit – mysterious...

J. M. Smallheer and 9 more 7 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

503

John Buchan - Greenmantle

Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being Mr...

RedToby and 7 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Clue of the Twisted Candle

Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence. (Summary by Gesine)

Lizzie Driver and 12 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Detective Fiction

567

Dorothy L. Sayers - Whose Body?

The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just found a dead body in his bath, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez....

Kristin Hughes and 1 more 6 hours 30 minutes

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Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Action & Adventure Fiction

539

E. W. Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman

Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman (also published as The Black Mask ) is the second collection of stories in the Raffles series. After the dark turn of events at the end of The Gift of the...

Kristin Hughes 5 hours 39 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Paradise Mystery

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)

JimmyLogan and 12 more 8 hours 39 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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