Detective Fiction
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…
Voice From the Cave
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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…
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…
Bullet Proof
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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…
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 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 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 (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. IV)
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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
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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…
A Fiend in Need
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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
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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…
For Fifteen Years
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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…
A Sharper's Downfall; Or, Into the Net
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Nicholas Carter
Bigamy, blackmail, damsels in distress, gambling and kidnapping--this story has it all, plus Nick Carter and his crew in hot pursuit of the …
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…
Cut by the County; or, Grace Darnel
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Darnel Park is situated in a county that thrives on gossip and secrets, and the Darnel family, as it turns out, has many of them. An attempt…
Old Broadbrim into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequ…
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St. George Henry Rathborne
Old Broadbrim, the famous Quaker detective listened as one of the richest men in New York continued "......I want you to guard my perso…
The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"“Who is he?” I asked.“The worst man in London,” Holmes answered, as he sat down and stretched his legs before the fire." And so…
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 Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories
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Joel Chandler Harris
While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. Th…
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…