Crime & Mystery Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
The Stolen Singer - Martha BELLINGER
The Stolen Singer - Martha BELLINGER
- Author: Martha BELLINGER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Agatha Redmond, a popular soprano, is kidnapped in New York City by thugs unknown, shortly after she learns of a hefty inheritance from a friend of her mother's. Coming to her rescue is a wealthy young businessman named James Hambleton, late of...
The Great Pearl Secret - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Great Pearl Secret - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
It is the afternoon before a grand society wedding between Juliet Phayre and the Duke of Claremanagh, when Emmy West drops by to visit the bride and to see the famed Tsarina pearls, only ever to be worn by the Duchess... supposedly. When Juliet...
Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Fenton's Quest - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country woman far below his station. He decides to marry her anyway. But is she all that she seems? (Summary by Stav...
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A collection of nine stories - or confessions - of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
The Hermit of ---- Street - Anna Katharine Green
The Hermit of ---- Street - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks straight into a mystery when one day a fire starts in one of the upper rooms of his house and she dashes over to...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2) - Maurice Leblanc
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (version 2) - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
This collection of independent stories first published between 1905 and 1907 in the magazine Je Sais Tout recounts the tales of Arsène Lupin, the famous gentleman-burglar: the first story marks the introduction of the character to the public, and...
Short Mystery Story Collection 007 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 007: a collection of 16 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox volunteers....
The Heath Hover Mystery - Bertram MITFORD
The Heath Hover Mystery - Bertram MITFORD
- Author: Bertram MITFORD
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a pond. Legends abound regarding Heath Hover; legends such as one's inability to spend a full night at the...
That Affair at Portstead Manor - Gladys Edson LOCKE
That Affair at Portstead Manor - Gladys Edson LOCKE
- Author: Gladys Edson LOCKE
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
An English country home during a house party becomes the scene of a double mystery. One of the three detectives employed on the case is a woman whose common sense, calm, and plain logic are skillfully employed in straightening the tangle. - NY Times...
The Turn of the Screw (version 2) - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (version 2) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an isolated country estate, who believes they are being haunted. As the story progresses, the governess'...
The Sacred Herb - Fergus Hume
The Sacred Herb - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A rich playboy comes home from travels abroad and is bully-ragged by his eccentric aunt into finding meaning for his life. This he does by helping a school chum save his fiancée from the gallows and the playboy falls head over heels in love with the...
A Bullet for Cinderella - John D MACDONALD
A Bullet for Cinderella - John D MACDONALD
- Author: John D MACDONALD
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders...
Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp - Jack Boyle
Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp - Jack Boyle
- Author: Jack Boyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became dependent upon the drug to make his deadlines, lost his job, and turned to crime to support his habit. He...
The Red Hand - Arthur Machen
The Red Hand - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. - Summary by Wanda White...
The Four Stragglers - Frank L. Packard
The Four Stragglers - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind German lines. One of them shoots at another in the darkness. Members of a criminal gang before the war, the...
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Author: LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Elizabeth the same woman, is she married with children, is her husband a spy? These and many other questions are...
The Postmaster's Daughter - Louis Tracy
The Postmaster's Daughter - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about the murder. Filled with comic antics of Scotland Yard fellows, local police, and residentsof the town, keeps...
The Girl Next Door - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Girl Next Door - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Marcia Brett has noticed unusual activity at the ramshackle and seemingly abandoned mansion next door: a mysterious, veiled lady is seen coming and going out the front door, a different woman is glimpsed through a shuttered window, and most...
Short Mystery Story Collection 005 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Deep Lake Mystery - Carolyn Wells
Deep Lake Mystery - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of exit, excepting a dangerous plunge through a window into a deep, foreboding lake with swirling eddies and...
Short Mystery Story Collection 004 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 004: a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Who Did It? - Nat GOULD
Who Did It? - Nat GOULD
- Author: Nat GOULD
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Following the dissolution of the New South Wales government, Henry Bryce is ready to take on the Labour Party for the seat of Balmain East. But no sooner is the campaign underway than his body turns up in Sydney Harbour. Who did it? Nat Gould, the...
The Riddle Ring - Justin McCarthy
The Riddle Ring - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how...
A House to Let - Undefined
A House to Let - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the...
Constance Dunlap - Arthur B. Reeve
Constance Dunlap - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesn't work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More...
Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated by detective fiction writer Edgar Jepson and published in English, in 1909, under the simple title of Arsène...
Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue - Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, is back in the criminal underworld of New York. He is desperately trying to find the criminal called the Phantom, alias Gentleman Laroque, in order to protect Marie, alias The Tocsin, the love of...
Doors of the Night - Frank L. Packard
Doors of the Night - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
New York City, 1922—Murder—half-million dollar robbery—false accusation—secret passage—the underworld—a mystery woman—a masked man—a crooked lawyer—stolen jewels—a forged will. . . “Every hour . . . held a surer promise, not only of desperate peril...
On Secret Service - William Nelson TAFT
On Secret Service - William Nelson TAFT
- Author: William Nelson TAFT
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / Law
Detective-Mystery stories based on real cases solved by government agents. Created initially in 1865, the U.S. Secret Service continued to expand over the years, particularly following the assassination of President McKinley in 1901. The episodes in...
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary - Geraldine BONNER
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary - Geraldine BONNER
- Author: Geraldine BONNER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on Long Island. Before Molly can crack the case, a more shocking crime is perpetrated and more mysteries...
Therese Raquin - Émile Zola
Therese Raquin - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
An unsatisfied wife kills her weak husband in order to carry on a sordid affair with another man. However, her selfish plans are spoiled when her husband continues to haunt her. This is often said to be Zola's first great novel. (Summary by...
A Master of Mysteries - L. T. Meade
A Master of Mysteries - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
"It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth the weird, the mysterious had an irresistible fascination for me. Having private means, I resolved to follow my...
The Vanishing Man - R. Austin Freeman
The Vanishing Man - R. Austin Freeman
- Author: R. Austin Freeman
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished. Perhaps he has died; perhaps not;but the issue is very important because the will...
Agatha Webb - Anna Katharine Green
Agatha Webb - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A universally beloved woman has been murdered. But who would have the heart to kill Agatha Webb? Would her husband do it for money matters? Or would it be the cook, who died at about the same time? Or would it be the rich and well-connected Mr....
The Haunted Bookshop - Christopher Morley
The Haunted Bookshop - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the ghosts of all great literature." Beginning with the arrival of a young advertising man and the mysterious...
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Dead Men's Shoes - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Romance
Sybil, a gentlewoman who has to work for a living, finally finds employment as her rich uncle's house keeper. Nothing could be better: she would finally have an easy job in which she is treated well, and inherit her uncle's money after his death....
The Oakdale Affair - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Oakdale Affair - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Jack London / H.H. Knibbs-inspired, selfless, poetry-spouting, hobo character, Bridge, makes another appearance in the novellete, The Oakdale Affair (original title, Bridge and the Oskalooska Kid). Joining the poetic hobo in...
Nobody's Man - E. Phillips Oppenheim
Nobody's Man - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Brigadier general Andrew Tallente, late of Parliament, is implicated in the death of his male secretary, the son of a classmate at Eton. Seems the younger man may have not only been having an affair with the hero's American wife, but had stolen...
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall - Herbert George Jenkins
John Dene of Toronto; a Comedy of Whitehall - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
John Dene comes to England with a great invention, and the intention of gingering-up the Admiralty. His directness and unconventional methods bewilder and embarrass the officials at Whitehall, where, according to him, most of the jobs are held by...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first set of short stories that were published and followed the publishing of his first 2 novels, A Study in...
