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Burton Egbert Stevenson - That Affair at Elizabeth

A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiquitous romantic complication, of course). (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 5 hours 1 minute

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482

Charles Norris Williamson - Golden Silence

Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful...

Jules Hawryluk and 5 more 20 hours 7 minutes

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389

Richard Dallas - Master Hand

This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a fictional crime that took place in the New York City of 1883. A fine period piece as well as a clever detective story. (Introduction by...

Delmar H Dolbier 4 hours 55 minutes

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General Fiction

425

Richard Harding Davis - In the Fog

The story is set in London, at an elite gentleman’s club called «The Grill,» where an American gentleman arrests the attention of four other men by relating how one night he got lost in a thick London fog. He stumbled...

Bob Gonzalez 2 hours 8 minutes

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445

Edgar Wallace - Green Rust (Version 2)

Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill...

Kirsten Wever 9 hours 50 minutes

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Historical Fiction

414

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire

Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th century. Set in Napoleon's era, it involves a Frenchman...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 39 minutes

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Historical Fiction

420

Neil Munro - Doom Castle

Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of «Drimdarroch», whom he...

Crln Yldz Ksr and 1 more 11 hours 3 minutes

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General Fiction

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Maurice Leblanc - Teeth of the Tiger

Maurice Leblanc delivers another Arsene Lupin adventure set in World War I. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)

Cate Barratt 11 hours 12 minutes

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427

Marcel Allain - Messengers of Evil

Fantômas was introduced a few years after Arsène Lupin, another well-known thief. But whereas Lupin draws the line at murder, Fantômas has no such qualms and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 26 minutes

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Margaret Ann Hubbard - Murder Takes the Veil

Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich with suspense...the story of lovely Trillium Pierce powerless at the mercy of a murderer who believes that he has no power over himself — that his determination...

Maria Therese 8 hours 28 minutes

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Chester K. Steele - Mansion of Mystery

Mr. and Mrs. Langmore were found mysteriously murdered in their mansion one morning. Their daughter Margaret, who was at home at the time of the deaths, is quickly suspected of having committed the crime. However, her...

Delmar H Dolbier and 9 more 6 hours 13 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Dead Secret

«Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? will she tell the Secret which destroyed her life?» (Summary by Stav Nisser)

Helen Falconer and 5 more 16 hours 18 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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