Detective Fiction
The Club of Queer Trades
Read by David Barnes
G. K. Chesterton
A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…
The Circular Study
Read by Jacquerie
Anna Katharine Green
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…
The Seven Secrets
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd i…
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with M…
Huntingtower
Read by Simon Evers
John Buchan
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…
The King in Yellow (part 1)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Robert W. Chambers
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…
The Poisoned Pen
Read by Elliott Miller
Arthur B. Reeve
The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American…
The Man in Lower Ten
Read by MaryAnn
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKn…
The Riddle of the Sands
Read by Gesine
Erskine Childers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas W. Hanshew
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do.Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but t…
The Valley of Fear (Version 2)
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth…
The Bat
Read by Alan Winterrowd
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The novelization of the play of the same name that had an initial run of 867 shows on Broadway and has been performed all over the world and…
Cleek of Scotland Yard
Read by Ruth Golding
Thomas W. Hanshew
Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …
The House of the Whispering Pines
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Anna Katharine Green
The country club house The Whispering Pines was closed for the winter, but only one day after he locked the place personally, the narrator s…
Missing: Page Thirteen
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Anna Katharine Green
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The future…
A Silent Witness
Read by Anna Simon
R. Austin Freeman
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…
The Grand Babylon Hotel
Read by Anna Simon
Arnold Bennett
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …
Bat Wing
Read by Mark Nelson
Sax Rohmer
Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The fir…
Greenmantle
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John Buchan
Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…