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Gaston Leroux - Secret of the Night

Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph...

Don W. Jenkins 9 hours 7 minutes

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6

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...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 50 minutes Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

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Detective Fiction

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Louis Tracy - Mysterious Disappearance

Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A short time later a dead body is found in the river, and Bruce follows the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 8 hours 56 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Vaughan Kester - Just And The Unjust

Framed for a murder he did not commit, John North must rely on his friends to help clear him of the charge. But, are they really his friends? Many have dirty little secrets they wish to keep private, even at the...

Tom Weiss 8 hours 58 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Harold MacGrath - Pagan Madonna

The Pagan Madonna, one of Harold MacGrath's numerous novels, set in Shanghai, tells a story of intrigue, murder, and illicit art “collecting.” The paths of Jean Norman, a Red Cross nurse from the United States, Ling...

Don W. Jenkins 5 hours 42 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

491

Sapper - Bulldog Drummond

‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. And Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond was his most popular leading character. This book,...

Andy Minter and 6 more 8 hours 56 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Ann Radcliffe - Italian

The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would not put up with their love. This novel is considered to be one of the best...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 18 hours 48 minutes

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Meredith Nicholson - Port of Missing Men

Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as they traveled around Europe. Count von Stroebel had urged Armitage to do...

MaryAnn 7 hours 50 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Richard Henry Savage - Midnight Passenger

Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hugh Worthington’s motives were not altruistic – he had a secret to hide and a...

MaryAnn 8 hours 22 minutes

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Wilkie Collins - Basil

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin,...

CrowGirl and 8 more 11 hours 15 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Anna Katharine Green - X Y Z - A Detective Story

«Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 59 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Andre Norton - Ralestone Luck

Rupert Ralestone is officially the Marquess of Lorne--but with no family money or prestige, the title is worthless. He and his younger brother and sister return to the old family homestead--Pirate's Haven. Their only...

Gabriel Glenn 5 hours 52 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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