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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Uncle Silas

Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the...

Great Plains 18 hours 38 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

863

John Buchan - Thirty-nine Steps

Richard Hannay’s boredom is soon relieved when the resourceful engineer is caught up in a web of secret codes, spies, and murder on the eve of WWI. This exciting action-adventure story was the inspiration for Alfred...

Adrian Praetzellis 4 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Randall Garrett - Brain Twister

«Mark Phillips» is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle names (Philip and Mark), was coined soon after their original meeting, at a...

Catharine Eastman 5 hours 18 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

758

Jacques Futrelle - Elusive Isabel

Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle (April 9, 1875 — April 15, 1912) first published in 1909. Set in Washington, D.C., it is a spy novel about an international conspiracy of the «Latin» countries against the...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 4 hours 45 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Edgar Wallace - Angel of Terror (version 2)

Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new victim's riches including lies and murder. Only Jack Glover the lawyer of...

Allyson Hester 6 hours 58 minutes

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Romance

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Anthony Trollope - Phineas Finn the Irish Member

Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irishman who becomes a member of the English parliament. Trollope aspired to...

Laura Koskinen and 12 more 27 hours 2 minutes Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope

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Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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Baroness Emma Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading)

Baroness Emma («Emmuska») Orczy (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet...

Belinda Brown 8 hours 22 minutes

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History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

Historical Fiction

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William Makepeace Thackeray - History of Henry Esmond, Esq., A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne

A classic Victorian novel and a historical novel rolled into one! Read about court and army life during the reign of Queen Anne — a story of Catholic — Protestant intrigue, and the party which aspired to the...

Måns Broo and 13 more 19 hours 21 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Erskine Childers - Riddle of the Sands

Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy...

Gesine 12 hours 24 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

808

G. K. Chesterton - Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare

In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses...

Zachary Brewster-Geisz 6 hours

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James Fenimore Cooper - Spy

James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist...

Gord Mackenzie and 13 more 16 hours 44 minutes

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

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Joseph Conrad - Secret Agent

The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers...

Hugh McGuire and 11 more 9 hours 53 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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