Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Box Office Murders
Read by Atul Sharma
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts was part of the golden age of detective fiction, along with the likes of Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler. His most…
The Other Man
Read by Lyndon Ashworth
Edgar Wallace
"The Other Man" by Edgar Wallace is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story begins in a foggy London, introducing us …
His Darling Sin
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Grace Perivale is young, beautiful and rich. She and her beloved husband are the center of high society. Until Hector suddenly and unexpecte…
The Poet and the Lunatics
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G. K. Chesterton
The same pen that wrote the famous Father Brown stories here presents another volume of equally delightful mystery and murder stories with a…
The Unholy Three
Read by Ben Tucker
Tod Robbins
Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up and put your eyes on the most bizarre crime spree you will ever bear witness to! See the broad-shouldere…
The Hole in the Wall
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arthur Morrison
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…
The Layton Court Mystery
Read by Anne Erickson
Anthony Berkeley
A Roger Sheringham mystery In a typical English country house, a murder is committed. The wealthy Victor Stanworth, who'd been playing host …
The Big Midget Murders
Read by Ben Tucker
Craig Rice
The Big Midget is the hit of the show in Jake Justus's night club, until someone puts an abrupt end to the Midget. Why were eleven unmatched…
The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 4, April 15, 1919
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Perley Poore Sheehan
Welcome to Issue #4 of the exciting and influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book, a noted precursor to the mighty Weird Tales! In this iss…
Baby Moll
Read by Ben Tucker
John Farris
MY NAME IS PETE MALLORY and I used to play smart gun for a big-time operator named Macy Barr. But I quit. Now Macy's empire was crumbling an…
Number Six
Read by Ben Tucker
Edgar Wallace
The master criminal Caesar Valentine is rich, suave and seemingly untouchable. He has confounded Scotland Yard time and time again, stealin…
The Horror Expert
Read by Ben Tucker
Frank Belknap Long
"She'll insert the knife so delicately that the man won't feel any pain at all. Just a warm gratefulness, an intoxicating sort of happi…
Benighted
Read by Ben Tucker
John Boynton Priestley
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
The Soft Side
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Henry James
Lauded author Henry James, best known for his seminal and highly influential novella The Turn of the Screw and his highly literate trans-con…
Clean Break
Read by Ben Tucker
Lionel White
Johnny Clay has a masterful plan to rob a racetrack on the busiest day of the year. To pull it off, he will recruit not hardened profession…
Rich Crooks
Read by Ben Tucker
Gordon Young
"Seated in a restaurant in New York City, Don Everhard suddenly finds himself involved in an insidious plot, the entanglements of which…
The House of Evil
Read by Jim Locke
William Le Queux
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.
The Heirloom - Complete
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T. Duthie-Lisle
It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of …
The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg
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Louis Bromfield
This is a book of many chapters that tell about the lives of a self described “vain” man and his romance with a lady, Annie, whom many consi…
The Thrill Book Vol. I No. 3, April 1, 1919
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Susan Carleton
Here we are swinging back into adventure with the third exciting issue of The Thrill Book, an influential early pulp magazine featuring stor…