Detective Fiction
The Valley of Fear (Version 4 Dramatic Reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear is the fourth novel Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about private detective Sherlock Holmes. First published serially in The Str…
The Treasure-Train
Read by Howard Skyman
Arthur B. Reeve
There have been many novels written by Arthur B. Reeve that feature the character of Craig Kennedy.Kennedy is a detective that employs his k…
Killers Are My Meat
Read by Ben Tucker
Stephen Marlowe
Private Eye Chester Drum is thrust into a dark web of intrigue when he witnesses fellow detective Gil Sprayregan run down by a speeding car.…
Grave Danger
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Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell cleans up the crime-ridden New York water front by making a dope charge stick against the head of the "organization"…
Angel Esquire
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Edgar Wallace
The unconventional Scotland Yard detective Angel Esquire is no fool to be hoodwinked by the murder of the old crook Reale as he anticipates …
The Club of Masks
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Allen Upward
It was far from a simple case of opium poisoning — the affair at the Domino Club. Zenobia Salome, the Leopardess, whichever of those silk ma…
Under the Tiger's Claws
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Nicholas Carter
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …
The Dalehouse Murder
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Francis Everton
An assorted group of young people gather in a Merchester house to take part in the annual lawn tennis tournament. The summer is extremely ho…
The Three Taps: A Detective Story Without a Moral
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Ronald Knox
If it was murder, how did the murderer get through a door and leave it locked on the inside? If suicide, how did the dead man turn off the g…
The Wrong Letter
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Walter S. Masterman
The Home Secretary is found murdered. Even more bizarre is that the fact is communicated to the Scotland Yard before the commission of the d…
The Perfect Frame
Read by Ben Tucker
William Ard
T.N.T. packed in satin!Lorena Dahl had her fingers on the straps of the halter and Dane knew she was going to rip them away. "Cut it o…
The Silk Stocking Murders
Read by James R. Hedrick
Anthony Berkeley
A ROGER SHERINGHAM MYSTERY. When the daughter of a country parson goes missing in London, Roger Sheringham receives a letter from her father…
The Scorched Face
Read by Winston Tharp
Dashiell Hammett
Hammett's Continental Op searches for two missing young women and finds more than he bargained for. - Summary by Winston Tharp
The Maxwell Mystery
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Carolyn Wells
An early murder mystery by the prolific American author Carolyn Wells, and the first one to feature her famous detective, Fleming Stone.A gr…
The Tower Treasure (Version 4)
Read by Luke Sieburg
Franklin W. Dixon
A dying criminal confesses that his loot had been secreted in an old tower. It remains for the Hardy Boys to make an astonishing discovery t…
A Study in Scarlet (Version 8)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This exciting story is the first of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels and stories and the beginning of the famed duo with Dr. Watson who …
The Squealer [aka The Squeaker]
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Edgar Wallace
In 1920s London, a mysterious informant - known only as the Squealer - is systematically betraying London's criminal class to the authoritie…
The Meredith Mystery
Read by James R. Hedrick
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, in grouping (sic) his way along the passage to his room stumbles upo…
The Thirteenth Letter
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
This classic murder mystery begins in a hospital and ends in a passionate embrace. What happens in between will intrigue and entertain lover…
The Three Just Men
Read by Howard Skyman
Edgar Wallace
It is early twentieth century England and all is not well. Innocent citizens are found murdered by an apparent snake bite accredited to a di…