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Mark Twain - Stolen White Elephant (Version 2)

«The Stolen White Elephant» was written by Mark Twain and published in 1882. In it, an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to the Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes...

John Greenman 51 minutes

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General Fiction

458

Louis Tracy - Albert Gate Mystery

A new case for barrister and hobby detective Reginald Brett: The imperial diamonds were sent by the Sultan to London, to be cut in Albert Gate mansion by experts, all the while under the especial protection of the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 9 hours 20 minutes

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Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

436

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set...

5 hours 41 minutes

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399

Reginald Wright Kauffman - Miss Frances Baird, detective

Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to «The Maples» to guard a valuable set of diamonds during the festivities leading up to the marriage of...

J. M. Smallheer 5 hours

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478

Anna Katharine Green - Ruby and the Caldron

A valuable ruby is lost during a disturbance in the snow before a ball at The Evergreens. A detective is called for right away to recover it, but who, of the few guests, might have the jewel, and how to solve the...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 9 minutes

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435

Anna Katharine Green - House in the Mist

It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself. Being...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 49 minutes

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Louis Tracy - Silent Barrier

Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversation between two young women, one of whom is to go to Switzerland. He decides...

Mary Herndon Bell 9 hours 15 minutes

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442

Anna Katharine Green - Amethyst Box

On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 50 minutes

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478

Arthur J. Rees - Shrieking Pit

The Shrieking Pit is one of Arthur Rees's earlier works, and is a good old fashioned murder mystery story. Grant Colwyn, a private detective, is holidaying in East Anglia when he notices a young man at a nearby table...

Kevin Green 8 hours 57 minutes

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431

Maurice Leblanc - Crystal Stopper

During a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq a crime is committed, and two accomplices of Arsène Lupin are arrested by the police. One is guilty of the crime, the other innocent, but both will be sentenced to...

Cate Barratt 6 hours 54 minutes

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Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Detective Fiction

423

Percy James Brebner - Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective

Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Police Detective Murray Wigan in solving various crimes and mysteries in...

Tony Posante 7 hours 29 minutes

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438

Louis Joseph Vance - Lone Wolf

The Lone Wolf is the first of eight books in a series featuring the jewel thief turned private detective Michael Lanyard. With his identity betrayed and the police on his heels, he must fly from Paris, which is made...

William Tomcho and 6 more 8 hours 3 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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