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Anna Katharine Green - One of My Sons

A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry for help only to find himself as the last person to see her grandfather alive...

Laura Victoria 9 hours 53 minutes

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Detective Fiction

438

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study in Scarlet (version 3)

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the...

ashleighjane 4 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

443

Maurice Leblanc - 813

As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloured name. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 10 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

424

Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains stories...

Bear Schacht and 7 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

440

Fergus Hume - Lady from Nowhere

A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (Introduction by MaryAnn)

MaryAnn 6 hours 7 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

432

J. S. Fletcher - Orange-Yellow Diamond

A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Murder, theft, and love, all the ingredients for a wonderful...

8 hours 18 minutes

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General Fiction

456

William Le Queux - Sign of Silence

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

455

George Manville Fenn - Peril Finders

In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are failing. A prospector arrives and tells stories of ancient cities where there...

Elaine Webb and 9 more 16 hours 21 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

450

Richard Marsh - Amusement Only

This is a collection of 12 short stories of mystery and humor, which are, as the title says, for amusement only. (Summary by Carolin)

NoelBadrian and 9 more 8 hours 23 minutes

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General Fiction

434

Edgar Wallace - Secret House

A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 48 minutes

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Detective Fiction

421

Louis Joseph Vance - Black Bag

Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified favor, but Kirkwood doesn''t trust him and sends him away. That night, he sees...

William Tomcho and 4 more 10 hours 27 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

442

Joseph Hocking - Weapons of Mystery

Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the...

MaryAnn and 4 more 5 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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