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Earl Derr Biggers - Agony Column

English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In this treacherous tale of murder and intrigue young American Geoffrey West...

peac 2 hours 30 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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James Oliver Curwood - Flaming Forest

A tale of mystery, romance, and honor, as David Carrigan must choose between his duty as an officer of the law and a girl who holds him captive; a girl who Carrigan thinks he may have fallen in love with no less! Who...

Roger Melin 8 hours 36 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Poison Belt

Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World ( librivox.org/the-lost-world-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ ), Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow explorers (Professor Summerlee, Lord John...

Mark F. Smith 3 hours 18 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur B. Reeve - Exploits Of Elaine

The Exploits of Elaine It tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as «The Clutching Hand», who murdered her father. (Wikipedia)

Lucy Burgoyne 9 hours 26 minutes

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2

Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it heavily influenced. Flora...

Roger Melin and 14 more 22 hours 45 minutes

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H. Beam Piper - Murder in the Gunroom

The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in...

Anthony Wilson 6 hours 52 minutes

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Grey Woman

A «Bluebeard» story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well. (Summary by Jane Greensmith)

Jane Greensmith 2 hours 12 minutes

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Version 2)

After hearing Mr. Enfield's account of a distressing event involving Edward Hyde, the heir of his friend, Henry Jekyll, John Utterson is convinced that Jekyll's relationship with Hyde is built on something...

Kristin Hughes 2 hours 49 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book, Dr. Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with...

Laurie Anne Walden 4 hours 13 minutes

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Arnold Bennett - Grand Babylon Hotel

Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurous hotel in London, as a whim — and then finds out there are strange things going on — a German prince is supposed to arrive...

Anna Simon 6 hours 44 minutes

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Fergus Hume - Mystery of a Hansom Cab

“The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on...

Sibella Denton 7 hours 42 minutes

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Gaston Leroux - Mystery of the Yellow Room

This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better...

Jc Guan and 10 more 8 hours 22 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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