Mystery & Thriller

Flower of the North

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he tho…

That Affair Next Door

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Dawn Larsen 4.5
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of t…

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Brian Roberg 4.4
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surp…

The Master of the World

by Jules Verne Read by Mark F. Smith 4.4
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volca…

The Black Museum

by Harry Alan Towers Read by Orson Welles 4.7
The Black Museum, opening in 1875, is the oldest museum in the world dedicated to recording crime. Coined in 1877 by a reporter, the name &q…

Whose Body?

by Dorothy L. Sayers Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just …

The Mystery Girl

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president an…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

by Wyndham Martyn Read by Anna Simon 4.8
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

The Secret of Lonesome Cove

by Samuel Hopkins Adams Read by Roger Melin 4.4
A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near…

A House to Let

by Charles Dickens Read by Ruth Golding 4.6
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the cont…

The Oakdale Affair

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Ralph Snelson 4.5
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jack London / H.H. Knibbs-inspired, selfless, poetry-spouting, hobo character, Bridge, makes another appearance in the…

The Red House Mystery

by A. A. Milne Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021) 4.5
Antony Gillingham arrives at the Red House moments after a gunshot is heard. The room is locked, the murderer has disappeared and, in Antony…

The Leavenworth Case

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Kirsten Ferreri 4.6
The Leavenworth Case is a pioneering work in the detective fiction genre, crafted by Anna Katharine Green, one of the first female authors t…

The Phoenix Conspiracy

by Richard L Sanders Read by Richard L Sanders 4.6
Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they ar…

The Poison Belt

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Mark F. Smith 4.3
Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World ( http://librivox.org/the-lost-world-by-sir-arthur-conan-doyle/ ), Professor …

Trent's Last Case

by Edmund Clerihew Bentley Read by Kirsten Wever 4.6
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 Red Seal

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.4
The Red Seal invites listeners into a world where appearances can be deceiving. In this engaging mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, a series…

The Million-Dollar Suitcase

by Alice Macgowan Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered i…

Five Continental Op Stories

by Dashiell Hammett Read by Winston Tharp 4.7
Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Con…

At the Villa Rose

by A. E. W. Mason Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…

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