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Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries - Melville Davisson POST
Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries - Melville Davisson POST
- Author: Melville Davisson POST
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia hill country. His weapons are keen observation,...
Ravensdene Court - J. S. Fletcher
Ravensdene Court - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court on the Northumbrian coast. There, Francis Raven, the owner, recently retired to the family property after an...
Yollop - George Barr McCutcheon
Yollop - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to be...prison. This humorous satire takes a somewhat different look at prisons, criminals, the law and...
Red Money - Fergus Hume
Red Money - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
Greed and lost love collide to create dark secrets. Through twists and turns, corrupt aristocrats let family and honor overshadow love and true happiness. In the end, evil passes and good endures. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
An Amiable Charlatan (version 2) - E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Amiable Charlatan (version 2) - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. - Summary by Cate Barratt...
The Dead Letter - Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR
The Dead Letter - Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR
- Author: Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Regester, is credited by historians of popular literature to be the first full-length American crime fiction novel. The...
Stolen Idols - E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stolen Idols - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the supernatural. Carved by Chinese craftsmen, they have stood to either side of the great Buddha for hundreds of...
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
- Author: B. L. FARJEON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a belief that he may have been aware...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who, at the end of Volume 1, is thrown out of his family home and...
The Other House - Henry James
The Other House - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-knit community of people. - Summary by (shih-ping)...
The Wishing Well - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Wishing Well - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2) - Meredith Nicholson
The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2) - Meredith Nicholson
- Author: Meredith Nicholson
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
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 to candle light, is left empty save a faithful servant -- his fortune mysteriously vanished, though rumored to...
The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective - Maurice Leblanc
The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes....
The Four Faces - William Le Queux
The Four Faces - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion regarding a man named Gastrell. Gastrell is somewhat of a mystery to the club members in spite of...
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service - Laurence CLARKE
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service - Laurence CLARKE
- Author: Laurence CLARKE
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary by David Wales)...
Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life - H. Rider Haggard
Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
This is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure! This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s...
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened - Louisa May Alcott
The Mysterious Key and What It Opened - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In this delightful short story, we discover the secrets of the Trevlyn family. 'The Mysterious Key and What it Opened' is a mystery entwined with romance (Introduction by ashleighjane)...
The Watchers - A. E. W. Mason
The Watchers - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
A dark tale of adventure, piracy, murder, and revenge set on a rugged Cornish island in the mid-1700s. Told with the literary excellence to be expected from the author of The Four Feathers, the tale begins with a dangerous youth who sat in the...
The Bishop's Secret - Fergus Hume
The Bishop's Secret - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What transpired between them that has so...
Beverly Of Graustark - George Barr McCutcheon
Beverly Of Graustark - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Beverly Of Graustark is the second book in the Graustark series.Lorry and his wife, the princess, made their home in Washington, butspent a few months of each year in Edelweiss. During the periods spentin Washington and in travel, her affairs in...
The Angel of Terror (version 2) - Edgar Wallace
The Angel of Terror (version 2) - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new victim's riches including lies and murder. Only Jack Glover the lawyer of Jean's most recent victim, is aware...
I Say No - Wilkie Collins
I Say No - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman. However, one of them is lying to her...
The Evil Shepherd - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Evil Shepherd - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A businessman is found stabbed through the heart, the obvious suspect his partner: Oliver Hilditch. Hilditch seems destined for the gallows, but he is saved by brilliant defense attorney Francis Ledsam. It is a defense to be proud of, but Ledsam’s...
The Law and the Lady - Wilkie Collins
The Law and the Lady - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Valeria Brinton marries Eustace Woodville despite objections from Woodville's family leading to disquiet for Valeria's own family and friends. Just a few days after the wedding, various incidents lead Valeria to suspect her husband is hiding a dark...
Short Mystery Story Collection 006 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 006 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 006: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
A Chain of Evidence - Carolyn Wells
A Chain of Evidence - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, "if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of those three persons had been murdered...
Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
Uncle Silas - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest examples of the locked room mystery subgenre. It is not a novel of the supernatural (despite a few creepily...
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal - Wyndham MARTYN
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal - Wyndham MARTYN
- Author: Wyndham MARTYN
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes successful crime fiction stories, but this doesn't pay enough for him to do the things he wants. Things...
The Whispering Man - Henry Kitchell Webster
The Whispering Man - Henry Kitchell Webster
- Author: Henry Kitchell Webster
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
New friends Drew and Jeffrey are drawn into the investigation of the mysterious death of Dr. Marshall. Romance and intrigue abound and you'll be kept guessing up to the end as to who the murderer could be. ( Kate Follis)...
Dr. Nikola’s Experiment - Guy Boothby
Dr. Nikola’s Experiment - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Guy Boothby's fourth novel of five about the svelte mysterious anti-hero Dr Nikola sees him progress further on his search for immortality. Here we find him deep in the wilds of Northumbria conducting an experiment of longevity and restoration of...
The Woman in White - version 2 - Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White - version 2 - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Possibly Wilkie Collins' most famous novel, The Woman In White remade the Gothic Horror novel by taking its characters and tropes and setting them in commonplace surroundings among "people like us", Featuring unforgettable characters such as the...
The Notting Hill Mystery - Charles Warren ADAMS
The Notting Hill Mystery - Charles Warren ADAMS
- Author: Charles Warren ADAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Charles Felix was the pseudonym of Charles Warren Adams, an English Lawyer and publisher and is now known to have been the author of "The Notting Hill Mystery", thought to be the first full length detective novel in English.The story first appeared...
The Diamond Pin - Carolyn Wells
The Diamond Pin - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Eccentric and wealthy New York widow Ursula Pell loves playing cruel jokes on her guests and particularly on her niece and nephew who are destined to inherit the millions in gems left to her by her late husband. Therefore when she is found brutally...
The Woman of Mystery - Maurice Leblanc
The Woman of Mystery - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In 1898, a young boy watches in horror as his father is stabbed to death by a mysterious woman wearing a black lace scarf and an ornate brooch, Years later, when he arrives with his new bride at the chateau that was part of her dowry, he sees in a...
The Holladay Case - Burton Egbert Stevenson
The Holladay Case - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Stevenson's introduction of the protagonist Lester (law clerk with New York firm Graham & Royce) finds him occupying a front row seat in the murder trial of Wall Street multi-millionaire Hiram Holladay. Scandalously, suspicion points very...
Cynthia Wakeham's Money - Anna Katharine Green
Cynthia Wakeham's Money - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs leads to some very unusual...
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the wife take it? - Summary by Stav...
The Avalanche - Gertrude Atherton
The Avalanche - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Price Ruyler has been sent to San Francisco from New York to salvage the family business after the 1906 earthquake. His success makes him one of the city's most eligible bachelors but he resists the machinations of the local girls (and their...
Seven Keys to Baldpate - Earl Derr Biggers
Seven Keys to Baldpate - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Dime-store novelist William Magee has gone to Baldpate Inn to do a little soul-searching in an attempt to write a serious work. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of winter. But he discovers that there...
The Criminal from Lost Honour - Friedrich Schiller
The Criminal from Lost Honour - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
"In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion of every great crime a proportionally great force was in motion. If by the pale light of ordinary emotions the...
