Crime & Mystery Fiction
Witching Hill
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
E. W. Hornung
The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. - Summary by Nicholas Clifford
The Diamond Pin
Read by Celine Major
Carolyn Wells
Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are de…
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 1: The Three Musketeers (version 3)
Read by John Van Stan
Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances are six volumes that intertwine exciting events (real and fictionalized) from 17th-century Europe and the life of th…
Who Did It?
Read by Phil Benson
Nat Gould
Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. …
Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue
Read by Anna Simon
Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, is back in the criminal underworld of New York. He is desperately trying to find the cr…
Historical Mysteries
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Andrew Lang
Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history.
Lady Jim of Curzon Street
Read by Jim Locke
Fergus Hume
Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, …
The Masquerader
Read by Tom Weiss
Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Masquerader is one of two Katherine Cecil Thurston’s books that appeared on the Publisher’s Weekly best-seekers list in 1905 (The other,…
The Datchet Diamonds
Read by Jacquerie
Richard Marsh
Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambl…
The Lost Mr. Linthwaite
Read by Steven Seitel
J. S. Fletcher
A quest to track down his missing uncle (Mr. Linthwaite) leads investigative journalist Richard Brixey to the mysterious medieval town of Si…
The Golden Silence
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Charles Norris Williamson
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his …
Dash for Khartoum
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G. A. Henty
When a nursemaid mixes up her baby boy and the baby of the family she works for, the family decides to keep both. Years later, the nursemaid…
The Sealed Message
Read by Celine Major
Fergus Hume
A mysterious message on a record is found sealed in a cylinder. A heroine straight out of a fairy-tale is kept secluded by a guardian with q…
Doctor Nikola Returns
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
Guy Boothby’s character Doctor Antonio Nikola was one of the first great diabolical criminal masterminds. He was a Victorian forerunner to F…
It Happened in Egypt
Read by Sibella Denton
Charles Norris Williamson
Lord Ernest Borrow and Captain Anthony Fenton think they know a secret - a secret that could make them both rich. En route, they are sidetra…
The Evil Shepherd
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows,…
The Woman of Mystery
Read by Jacquerie
Maurice Leblanc
In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate broo…
In the Bishop's Carriage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Miriam Michelson
Nancy 'Nance' Olden, a young and very pretty woman, is an accomplished liar and thief. Raised in a horrific orphanage, called the Cruelty by…
The Other Side of the Door
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
Lucia Chamberlain
It's 1865 in the city of San Francisco. Pretty, young Ellie Fenwick is walking to the market early one morning to surprise her father with s…
Stolen Idols
Read by Jacquerie
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the su…