Detective Fiction
The Sign of the Broken Sword
Read by Phil Chenevert
G. K. Chesterton
In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. "S…
Under the Andes
Read by Roger Melin
Rex Stout
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…
Trent's Last Case
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
This is one of a series of EC Bentley novels featuring the highly erudite artist qua reporter / detective, Philip Trent.In it, Trent is sent…
The Filigree Ball
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Anna Katharine Green
[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 bea…
Officer 666
Read by Roger Melin
Barton Wood Currie
Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rat…
The Silent House
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Fergus Hume
A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book…
The Case of the Golden Bullet
Read by Dawn Larsen
Grace Isabel Colbron and Auguste Groner
Joseph Muller, quiet mannered detective, tries to solve the mystery of a man who died in his study, by a bullet hole in the chest. But all w…
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
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Frank L. Packard
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer …
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper
Read by Elaine Twiddle
Sax Rohmer
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
Read by J. M. Smallheer
L. T. Meade
"THAT a secret society, based upon the lines of similar institutions so notorious on the Continent during the last century, could ever …
The Hemlock Avenue Mystery
Read by Roger Melin
Lily A. Long
"The Hemlock Avenue Mystery" is one of a series of mysteries written by Lily Augusta Long using the pseudonym Roman Doubleday. A …
Blindfolded
Read by Roger Melin
Earle Ashley Walcott
Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. D…
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
Read by Sibella Denton
L. Frank Baum
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
The Roman Hat Mystery
Read by Mark Nelson
Ellery Queen
A disreputable lawyer is discovered dead by poisoning during the performance of a play in New York City. Not only that, despite being sold o…
The Secret of the Old Clock
Read by Louise Jaeschke
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
In the first book of the series, intrepid teenage sleuth, Nancy Drew, searches for the true will of the late Josiah Crowley, a wealthy busin…
Masterpieces of Mystery
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Joseph Lewis French
A selection of detective mysteries by a variety of well known authors. This collection is edited by Joseph Lewis French. - Summary by Miche…
It Walks By Night
Read by Ben Tucker
John Dickson Carr
A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody…
The Girl From Scotland Yard
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
This is another of the fine detective mysteries written by Edgar Wallace during the early part of the twentieth century. This particular sto…
The Law of the Four Just Men
Read by Andy Sames
Edgar Wallace
The first six of the stories in this collection were originally published under the title "Some Adventures of the Four Just Men" i…
The Bungalow Mystery
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The third book in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. Join Nancy on her most exciting adventure yet as she gets caught on a lake in a storm, rac…