Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Square Emerald
Read by Anne Fletcher
Edgar Wallace
What appears to be a straightforward case of blackmail develops into an exciting, complex web for our heroine, a feisty girl detective attac…
Silver Blaze
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A famous race horse disappears a week before an important race; the trainer is found dead on the desolate moor and the police are completely…
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)
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An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…
The Shadow of a Man
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E. W. Hornung
Set in rural Australia, this mystery novel follows a pair of newlyweds who are determined to make their improbable marriage work, no matter …
The Man Who Was Thursday (Version 2)
Read by Anthony Ogus
G. K. Chesterton
Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…
The Listener and Other Stories
Read by Ben Tucker
Algernon Blackwood
Algernon Blackwood, noted maestro of weird fiction, in his second collection of stories gives us some of his best and most well-known tales …
Coffee Break Collection 016 - Crime
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Various
This is the sixteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between about 3 and 15 minut…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series…
Beverly Of Graustark
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George Barr Mccutcheon
Beverly Of Graustark is the second book in the Graustark series.Lorry and his wife, the princess, made their home in Washington, butspent a …
The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles
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Henry Augustus Hering
'He's one of us,' the burglar explained. 'You see, we are men who have pretty well exhausted the pleasures of life. We've all been in the Ar…
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 2: The Mesmerist's Victim
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
This 2nd volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances continues the intrigues of "Balsamo, The Magician" and adds to them the schemes o…
The Old Ladies
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 2: Vaninka
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The story of Vaninka, generally regarded as the most fictionalized of Dumas’ Celebrated Crimes series, occurs during the short and eccentric…
The Amethyst Cross
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Fergus Hume
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…
The Man Who Knew
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
Saul Arthur Mann is a meticulous and eccentric individual. His life revolves around the gathering of every fact and statistic he can possibl…
The Fellowship of the Frog
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
In this story, a small village in rural England is the unlikely site of multiple mysterious goings-on. Dick Gordon, a young public prosecuto…
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Derues, La Constantin
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Alexandre Dumas
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…
The Viaduct Murder
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Ronald Knox
A badly battered corpse is found on the golf links. The first verdict was suicide; but four leisurely gentlemen staying at the country club …
Number Seventeen
Read by Kirsten Wever
Louis Tracy
The number Seventeen refers (at first) to the London apartment of a young widow who is strangled (off-scene) at the beginning of the book. H…
The Criminal from Lost Honour
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Friedrich Schiller
"In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion…