Detective Fiction
The Smuggler of King's Cove
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Sylvanus Cobb, Jr and Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.
Young Percy Maitland is a naval pilot and guides his late father's brig to safety, thereby saving the ship, her crew and cargo despite being…
A Fatal Message
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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 Unseen Ear
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Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Judith Richards is seated alone in her father's library at midnight, when a man enters, rifles her father's safe, and is examining his loot …
Le Dossier 113
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Émile Gaboriau
Le Dossier 113 est une nouvelle enquête de M. Lecoq, le policier vedette d’Emile Gaboriau, un des précurseurs du roman policier…
The Four Just Men
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Edgar Wallace
In the atmosphere of political turmoil before the First World War it seemed there were villains, spies and anarchists around every corner. S…
The Cask
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Freeman Wills Crofts
Though he went on to write dozens of other novels over an almost 40-year career, his debut work--this 1920 detective mystery--is considered …
Dastardly Criminals in Space
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Paul W. Fairman, Randall Garrett, Tom Godwin, Ivar Jorgensen, Stephen Marlowe, James V. McConnell, Frederik Pohl, James H. Schmitz, Robert Sheckley, Robert Silverberg and Manly Wade Wellman
Conspiracy on Callisto - Frederik PohlRevolt was flaring on Callisto, and Peter Duane held the secret that would make the uprising a success…
The Land of Mist
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Land of Mist is a novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1926.Although this is a Professor Challenger story, it centre…
Killing Time
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Donald E. Westlake
From Donald Westlake, author of the hard-biting Parker novels (as Richard Stark), comes the story of Tim Smith, the local private eye of a s…
The Lonely House
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Marie Belloc Lowndes
A mystery in the 'old fashioned' romantic genre, introducing characters that inspired another famous writer of detective mystery fiction.The…
Murder In The Maze
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Alfred Walter Stewart
This is another story written by Walter Stewart under the pseudonym of J.J. Connington. His character of Sir Clinton Driffield, the chief co…
File
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Émile Gaboriau
As the story opens the impregnable safe of the Fauvel bank is robbed of 350,000 francs. As the only keyholders are Andre Fauvel the owner an…