Detective Fiction
Danger at the Drawbridge
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The groom fails to show up for his wedding at a mysterious old estate, and Penny Parker is there to solve the mystery! (Summary by Amanda Le…
A Woman at Bay
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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 Steel Hammer
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Louis Ulbach
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his…
Snarled Identities
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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 …
Clara Vaughan, Vol. II
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …
The Twin Mystery
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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 Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes is involved in a simple case of finding the owner of a battered hat and a dead goose. Or so he thinks. All too soon this hat…
The Dain Curse
Read by Mark Nelson
Dashiell Hammett
A supposed family curse. Stolen diamonds. Drugs and a religious cult. The Continental Op has his hands full while again the bodies pile up a…
A Scandal in Bohemia
Read by Phil Chenevert
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This story, found in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is one of the best in my opinion. Is it possible for the machine like brain of this…
The Mask of Death
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Nicholas Carter
America's greatest detective is back! "Nick Carter will solve the mystery. No crime is too deep for him. He’ll ferret out the truth and…
The Double
Read by Atul Sharma
Edgar Wallace
When Dick Staines graduated the University of Cambridge without family connections or inherited wealth, he decides to put his honours scienc…
Grave Danger
Read by Ben Tucker
Frank Kane
Johnny Liddell cleans up the crime-ridden New York water front by making a dope charge stick against the head of the "organization"…
The Snarl of the Beast
Read by Ben Tucker
Carroll John Daly
Carroll John Daly, enormously popular in his day but has since faded into obscurity, is often credited with penning the first hard-boiled cr…
Under the Tiger's Claws; or, A Struggle for the Right (Version 2)
Read by Paul Hampton
Nicholas Carter
A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing funds—and a trusted clerk who has disappeared. [Summary by Paul H…
Over My Dead Body
Read by Ben Tucker
Rex Stout
It all began one day when two beautiful "females" as Archie called them, arrived in Nero Wolfe's. office with a problem Wolfe didn…
The Cry at Midnight
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Late one night, amateur sleuth Peggy Parker and her friend see an unexplained light and hear a terrifying scream from an abandoned old monas…
The Mystery of the Fires (version 2)
Read by Mary Escano
Edith Lavell
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
Gold of the Gods
Read by Vineymala
Arthur B. Reeve
Mansiche, the ruler of ancient Northern Peru was believed to have buried a huge treasure. But he cast a curse on, whoever, divulged the wher…
The Secret of Father Brown (Version 2)
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G. K. Chesterton
A new series of adventures and mysteries solved by the skill and quick wit of Father Brown, the one detective in English fiction who can com…
Clara Vaughan, Vol. III
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of …