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Mary Fortune - Stories from The Detective's Album

Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the name Waif Wander and narrated by detective Mark Sinclair, The Detective's Album...

Kirsty Leishman 9 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

439

Richard Doddridge Blackmore - Clara Vaughan, Vol I.

CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age....

Lynne T and 7 more 5 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

463

Burton Egbert Stevenson - Gloved Hand

Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country where at midnight they witness a mysterious «falling star» that appears to...

Don W. Jenkins 6 hours 32 minutes

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John Thomas McIntyre - Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent

Those who have read «Ashton-Kirk, Investigator» will recall references to several affairs in which the United States government found the investigator's unusual powers of inestimable service. In such matters,...

Pete Milan 8 hours 42 minutes

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General Fiction

532

John Kendrick Bangs - Mrs. Raffles

Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the family legacy of crime—but this time in America. These stories are narrated by...

ToddHW and 3 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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General Fiction

507

Ernest Bramah - Max Carrados

Max Carrados is a blind detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observations skills of his butler to fill in for any deficiency of his own. His visual...

Don W. Jenkins 6 hours 42 minutes

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Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Detective Fiction

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Rose Macaulay - Mystery at Geneva: An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings

Henry Beechtree, a newspaper correspondent for the British Bolshevist, is covering the latest otherwise sleepy session of the League of Nations in Geneva, when the newly elected President – a member of the Norwegian...

Cate Barratt 4 hours 15 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

451

Alice Muriel Williamson - House by the Lock

What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but...

Roger Melin 6 hours 13 minutes

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Arthur B. Reeve - Poisoned Pen

The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 — August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American mystery writer who created 82 Craig Kennedy mystery stories. The stories...

Elliott Miller 10 hours 16 minutes

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet...

J. M. Smallheer 7 hours 51 minutes

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Daniel A. Lord - Red Arrows in the Night

The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold was always heralded by the apparition of the Scarlet Archer. Now in the...

Maria Therese 3 hours 50 minutes

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General Fiction

436

Wadsworth Camp - Abandoned Room

The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.net)

Jules Hawryluk and 3 more 9 hours 10 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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