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General Fiction

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Justin McCarthy - Red Diamonds

In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for diamonds and become very rich. They agree that the wealth is to be split equally between them or their heirs after a few years and that the share of...

Crln Yldz Ksr 14 hours 41 minutes

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Detective Fiction

511

Arthur Griffiths - Rome Express

The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. Only one passenger cannot be awoken by the porter, no matter how loudly he...

Rapunzelina and 12 more 3 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

422

Louis Ulbach - For Fifteen Years

For Fifteen Years by Louis Ulbach is the sequel to The Steel Hammer which tells the story of a poor upholsterer, Jean Mortier who is falsely accused of murder and the tragic chain of events that follow. For Fifteen...

Deanna Bovee 9 hours 12 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

452

Louis Joseph Vance - False Faces

This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy...

William Tomcho and 7 more 8 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

441

William Le Queux - Great White Queen

How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular Librivox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different direction by the author. The book starts out like most Le Queux. Our hero,...

Tom Weiss 9 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

465

Margaret Ann Hubbard - Sister Simon's Murder Case

Set in the picturesque wilds of a Midwestern resort town at the height of the tourist season, Sister Simon’s Murder case begins with the murder of a terrified elderly lady, Dannie Grear. But what was she so afraid of?...

Maria Therese 5 hours 19 minutes

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458

Louis Tracy - Albert Gate Mystery

A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Gate mansion by experts, all the while under the especial protection of the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 9 hours 20 minutes

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Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

436

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set...

5 hours 41 minutes

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Detective Fiction

399

Reginald Wright Kauffman - Miss Frances Baird, detective

Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to «The Maples» to guard a valuable set of diamonds during the festivities leading up to the marriage of...

J. M. Smallheer 5 hours

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General Fiction

435

Anna Katharine Green - House in the Mist

It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself. Being...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 49 minutes

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427

Louis Tracy - Silent Barrier

Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides...

Mary Herndon Bell 9 hours 15 minutes

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General Fiction

442

Anna Katharine Green - Amethyst Box

On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 50 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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