Mystery & Thriller

The Middle Temple Murder

by J. S. Fletcher Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The dead body of a man is found on the steps to some chambers of Middle Temple Lane, near London's law courts. A journalist and a young lawy…

The Breaking Point

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shor…

The Secret of Lonesome Cove

by Samuel Hopkins Adams Read by Roger Melin 4.4
A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

by Arnold Bennett Read by Anna Simon 4.5
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

The Green Jacket

by Jennette Lee Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
An early example of the female private detective, Jennette Lee’s Millicent Newberry made her first appearance in The Green Jacket in 1917 an…

The House of a Thousand Candles

by Meredith Nicholson Read by Eric Leach 4.6
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference t…

The Phoenix Conspiracy

by Richard L Sanders Read by Richard L Sanders 4.6
Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they ar…

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Brian Roberg 4.5
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surp…

The Emperor's Candlesticks

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Kevin Green 4.6
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The Woman in White is a groundbreaking mystery novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1860. This epistolary tale unfolds through the pe…

The Oakdale Affair

by Edgar Rice Burroughs Read by Ralph Snelson 4.5
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jack London / H.H. Knibbs-inspired, selfless, poetry-spouting, hobo character, Bridge, makes another appearance in the…

The Million-Dollar Suitcase

by Alice Macgowan Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered i…

Eleanor's Victory

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Eleanor Howard 4.6
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

The Red Seal

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.4
The Red Seal invites listeners into a world where appearances can be deceiving. In this engaging mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, a series…

The Uttermost Farthing

by R. Austin Freeman Read by MaryAnn 4.5
Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological a…

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…

The Riddle of the Frozen Flame

by Thomas W. Hanshew Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Another full-length mystery story featuring Hamilton Cleek, whom we met first in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces. This time, Cleek investi…

The Great Impersonation

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales …

Six Feet Four

by Jackson Gregory Read by Roger Melin 4.6
A hotel is robbed one night, and a cowboy makes his getaway with but few witnesses. When a young woman is also robbed, suspicion falls on on…

Short Mystery Story Collection

by P. G. Wodehouse Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Delve into the intriguing world of mystery with this collection of ten short stories, expertly curated to showcase the art of suspense and d…

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