Detective Fiction
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, …
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…
Missing: Page Thirteen
Read by Bev J Stevens
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…
At the Villa Rose
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A. E. W. Mason
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a va…
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…
Short Mystery Story Collection 001
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P. G. Wodehouse
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of …
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 5)
Read by StudioMike
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherl…
Lost Man's Lane
Read by Mary Bard
Anna Katharine Green
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the ski…
Dangerous Days
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…
That Affair at Elizabeth
Read by Cate Barratt
Burton Egbert Stevenson
A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiqu…
The Case of Jennie Brice
Read by Wina Hathaway
Mary Roberts Rinehart
The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a m…
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5
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Various
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
Read by Michael Yard
Mark Twain
In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…
Scarhaven Keep
Read by Cate Barratt
J. S. Fletcher
The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and pl…
Whose Body? (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
Dorothy L. Sayers
Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fello…
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire
Read by Cate Barratt
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years…
The Sheridan Road Mystery
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Paul Thorne, Paul Thorneandmabel Thorne and Paul Thorne And Mabel Thorne
A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says …
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Read by Alan Chant
Charles Dickens
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death, and readers h…