Mystery
Jezebel's Daughter
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Wilkie Collins
A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was…
The Lifted Veil (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Eliot
George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…
The Eight Strokes of the Clock
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Maurice Leblanc
The Eight Strokes of the Clock is a collection of eight short stories by Maurice Leblanc. The stories have his most famous creation, Ars&egr…
The History of the Caliph Vathek
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William Beckford
This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not …
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
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Edgar Wallace
Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scot…
Max Carrados
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Ernest Bramah
Max Carrados is a blind detective who has developed his own remaining senses to a superior level and who has enlisted the superior observati…
The Angel of Terror (version 2)
Read by Allyson Hester
Edgar Wallace
Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new …
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…
Whither Thou Goest
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
The Earl of Saxham was vastly annoyed when his son, Guy, fell in love with a “penniless nobody,” and announced that he would marry her again…
The Wanderer
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Frances Burney
This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why di…
The Riddle Ring
Read by Ruth Golding
Justin Mccarthy
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a vi…
The Benson Murder Case
S.S. Van Dine
New York dilettante Philo Vance decides to assist the police in investigating the death of another man-about-town because he finds the psych…
Basil
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Wilkie Collins
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…
Stories from The Detective's Album
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Mary Fortune
Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the na…
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)
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Baroness Emma Orczy
In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republi…
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service
Read by David Wales
Laurence Clarke
What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary…
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls
Read by Sibella Denton
L. Frank Baum
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his …
This Is Life
Read by Seth Harwood
Seth Harwood
Jack Is Back! Yes, Jack Palms is back to bring you more of the action, suspense and excitement that you came to expect from the hit podioboo…
The Seven Sleuths' Club
Read by SamR
Grace May North
Some girls from a day school started a club called Spread Sunshine Club, but change the name when they decide to find some mysteries to solv…