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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Evil Guest

Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious characters. An unwanted guest visiting a dreary and isolated home is murdered; the thriller leads the...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 19 minutes

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General Fiction

371

E. W. Howe - Mystery of the Locks

Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very...

Roger Melin 10 hours 19 minutes

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Detective Fiction

446

Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Trent's Last Case (Version 2)

This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent. In it, Trent is sent to a charming English seaside village to cover the murder of Sigsbee...

Kirsten Wever 7 hours 43 minutes

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Detective Fiction

528

Marie Corelli - Ziska

The story revolves around the mysterious Princess Ziska, who captivates a set of European tourists who are spending time in exotic Egypt. The story is a mystery involving reincarnation, romance & a touch of mild...

ilianthe 6 hours 49 minutes

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438

Anna Katharine Green - Dark Hollow

The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is convicted and executed for the crime. Many years later, «a woman in purple» shows...

Ernst Pattynama and 7 more 9 hours 35 minutes

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General Fiction

492

Fergus Hume - Silent House

A mystery about a «locked door» murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book,...

Elena and 10 more 8 hours 7 minutes

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General Fiction

458

Anna Katharine Green - House of the Whispering Pines

The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator sees smoke come out of the chimney. He decides to investigate and enters the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 55 minutes

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Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study

Detective Fiction

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Grace Isabel Colbron - Case of the Pool of Blood in the Pastor's Study

Joseph Muller, police detective, travels to a remote Hungarian village to discover the truth behind the murder of a beloved village Pastor. (Introduction by Dawn)

Dawn Larsen 1 hour 59 minutes

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Detective Fiction

408

Grace Johnson - Roman Collar Detective

A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled with politics and it takes a parish priest to discover «whodunit» in this...

Maria Therese 4 hours 14 minutes

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General Fiction

398

Samuel Hopkins Adams - Secret of Lonesome Cove

A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them...

Roger Melin 7 hours 33 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Marcel Allain - Exploits of Juve

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 5 hours 47 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Daniel A. Lord - Murder in the Sacristy

A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer. But is the priest the guilty party — or is it the communist — the nazi — the...

Maria Therese 3 hours 19 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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