Detective Fiction

The Daffodil Mystery

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Edgar Wallace


Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 17…

The Abandoned Room

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Wadsworth Camp


The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.n…

The Sword of Damocles

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does ind…

The Midnight Passenger

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Richard Henry Savage


Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hug…

The Great White Queen

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William Le Queux


How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular LibriVox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different dir…

Swamp Island

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Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns…

The Mystery of the Four Fingers

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Fred M. White


A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Azte…

The Green Jacket

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Jennette Lee


The Lodger

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Marie Belloc Lowndes


"The story is about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer known only as "The Avenger" in London, who has been killing young blonde …

The Chief Legatee

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Anna Katharine Green


"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and…

The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries

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L. T. Meade


Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Ro…

Under the Andes

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Rex Stout


Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years before his creation of the immensely popular Nero Wolfe series of novels, and while perhaps h…

The Sign of the Broken Sword

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G. K. Chesterton


In the freezing English countryside, Father Brown leads Flambeau to the many monuments and shrines of the great General St. Claire. "S…

The Crimson Circle

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Edgar Wallace


The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of …

Tajemnica Baskerville'ów

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Tajemnica Baskerville'ów (ang. The Hound of the Baskervilles - Pies Baskerville'ów) - powieść detektywistyczna sir Artura Cona…

Verhalen van Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Een verzameling van negen avonturen van Sherlock Holmes, de bekende Britse detective, en zijn compaan Dr. Watson. (Samenvatting door Julie V…

The Silent House

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Fergus Hume


A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book…

The Filigree Ball

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Anna Katharine Green


[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bea…

The Case of the Golden Bullet

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Grace Isabel Colbron and Auguste Groner


Joseph Muller, quiet mannered detective, tries to solve the mystery of a man who died in his study, by a bullet hole in the chest. But all w…

Officer 666

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Barton Wood Currie


Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rat…

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