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Anna Katharine Green - Filigree Ball

[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial...

Crln Yldz Ksr 12 hours 5 minutes

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Lawrence L. Lynch - Against Odds

Believed to have been written by Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer, this detective story set at the World's Fair follows Carl Masters as he is in pursuit of international criminals Greenback Bob and...

Lynne T 10 hours 27 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Study In Scarlet (version 5)

«A Study in Scarlet» is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson and recounts his first experiences of meeting the...

Robert Dixon 3 hours 47 minutes

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Anna Katharine Green - Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock

A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence — until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife… —...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 14 minutes

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Edgar Allan Poe - Murders in the Rue Morgue (version 2)

«The Murders in the Rue Morgue» is a story by Edgar Allan Poe published in Graham's Magazine in 1841. It has been recognized as the first detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his «tales of ratiocination»....

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 40 minutes

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Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with Moriarty. Or did he? In the first story of the series Holmes explains to...

10 hours 16 minutes

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J. S. Fletcher - Talleyrand Maxim

John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes to his wife and two children and they live the good life for a number of years....

Kevin Green 6 hours 56 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventure of the Speckled Band

Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears for her life. Upon hearing her story, Sherlock agrees and springs into action...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 6 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Red Headed League

«The Adventure of the Red-Headed League» is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked «The Red-Headed...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 2 minutes

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Wyndham Martyn - Secret of the Silver Car

Before he went to join the Armed Forces in World War I France, Anthony Trent had a successfull secret 'career' as a master criminal in the USA, never caught by the police (see 'Anthony Trent, Master Criminal' ). The...

Anna Simon 7 hours 10 minutes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Valley of Fear (Version 2)

John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth and final novel of Sherlock Holmes is based on the real-life adventures of...

Alisson Veldhuis 5 hours 26 minutes

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Grace May North - Bobs, a Girl Detective

This is a great short chapter mystery book for girls. It is similar to Nancy Drew. Bobs is one of the four sisters whose parents die, leaving them with the responsibility of caring for themselves. They have to work...

Kimberly Krause and 8 more 4 hours 33 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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