Detective Fiction

The Missing Chums

Read by James R. Hedrick


Franklin W. Dixon



The Hardy boys were sons of a celebrated American dectective and from their father learned the particulars of a number of unusual crimes. Th…

Voice From the Cave

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson



Penny Parker and her father go on vacation accompanied by a mysterious woman and end up engrossed in a hunt for foreign spies! (Summary by A…

Bullet Proof

Read by Ben Tucker


Frank Kane



Johnny Liddell, the fast-moving New York private eye, is hired to investigate a murder which everyone but the client calls a suicide. The cl…

A Fiend in Need

Read by Ben Tucker


Milton K. Ozaki



There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plu…

Red Harvest

Read by Mark Nelson


Dashiell Hammett



The Continental Detective Agency’s Op is sent on a case to Personville. The locals call their town “Poisonville,” and the Op would soon find…

Raspberry Jam

Read by SaraHale


Carolyn Wells



This is the 11th book featuring the distinguished detective, Fleming Stone.When a titan of industry is found dead in his locked bedroom with…

Cad Metti, The Female Detective Strategist

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George Munro



At a time when the detective story was gaining in popularity, the hero was almost always male. In this story, Dudie Dunne is assisted by his…

The Mystery at Lovers' Cave

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Anthony Berkeley



Roger and his cousin Anthony are ready to head out on vacation, when a phone call from Scotland Yard sends the duo scuttling down to Hampshi…

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 …

The Millionaire Mystery

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Fergus Hume



A racy tale of a disappearing corpse, an eloquent tramp, a beautiful heiress and the intricacies of a shady millionaire's life - Summary by …

The Four Just Men

Read by Andy Sames


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 …

The Peril Finders

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George Manville Fenn



In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are faili…

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…

Dastardly Criminals in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. IV)

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…

File No. 113

Read by Celine Major


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…

The Lonely House

Read by Andy Sames


Marie Belloc Lowndes



A mystery in the 'old fashioned' romantic genre, introducing characters that inspired another famous writer of detective mystery fiction.The…

For Fifteen Years

Read by Deanna Bovee


Louis Ulbach



For Fifteen Years by Louis Ulbach is the sequel to The Steel Hammer which tells the story of a poor upholsterer, Jean Mortier who is falsely…

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