Detective Fiction

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General Fiction

517

John Kendrick Bangs - Mrs. Raffles

Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the family legacy of crime—but this time in America. These stories are narrated by...

ToddHW and 3 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

492

Ernest Bramah - Max Carrados

Max Carrados is a blind detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. His visual...

Don W. Jenkins 6 hours 42 minutes

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Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Detective Fiction

411

Rose Macaulay - Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Henry Beechtree, a newspaper correspondent for the British Bolshevist, is covering the latest otherwise sleepy session of the League of Nations in Geneva, when the newly elected President – a member of the Norwegian...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

439

Alice Muriel Williamson - House by the Lock

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but...

Roger Melin 6 hours 13 minutes

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Detective Fiction

442

Arthur B. Reeve - Poisoned Pen

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 10 hours 16 minutes

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Detective Fiction

515

Baroness Emma Orczy - Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 51 minutes

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Detective Fiction

439

Daniel A. Lord - Red Arrows in the Night

The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold was always heralded by the apparition of the Scarlet Archer. Now in the...

Maria Therese 3 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

428

Wadsworth Camp - Abandoned Room

The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.net)

Jules Hawryluk and 3 more 9 hours 10 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

472

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5

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...

JDavidMoore and 7 more 11 hours 1 minute Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Detective Fiction

466

Mrs. Charles Bryce - Ashiel Mystery - A Detective Story

Just as the adopted Juliet Byrne finds out the truth about her family, her father is murdered. Luckily the brilliant chocolate-munching Detective Gimblet takes up the case to solve the 'Ashiel Mystery' (Summary by...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 5 more 8 hours 26 minutes

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General Fiction

451

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Room in the Dragon Volant

J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 34 minutes

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General Fiction

421

William Beckford - History of the Caliph Vathek

This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not enough for him. He seeks also forbidden knowledge, and doesn't care who he...

MorganScorpion 3 hours 51 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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