Detective Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 4
The Mystery Girl - Carolyn Wells
The Mystery Girl - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction appeared to make any sense. Was...
Doom Castle - Neil MUNRO
Doom Castle - Neil MUNRO
- Author: Neil MUNRO
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Doom Castle is the story of young Count Victor's journey to Scotland after the Jacobite Rebellion, searching for a traitor to the Jacobite cause as well as a mysterious man under the name of "Drimdarroch", whom he swore revenge. After a perilous...
The Green Rust - Edgar Wallace
The Green Rust - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A millionaire is taken suddenly ill, and sensing his mortality, he asks his attorney to do him one last favor—to find and secretly watch over his missing niece, the daughter of his profligate deceased sister. This niece at the appropriate time would...
The False Faces - Louis Joseph Vance
The False Faces - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy Ekstrom alive after all, his...
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat - Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Bobbsey family are are staying on a houseboat for summer vacation! At first all seems to be going well - what with fishing, playing with friends, and exploring the river. But then a mean farmer arrives, who seems determined to stop the trip....
Mrs. Raffles - John Kendrick Bangs
Mrs. Raffles - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the family legacy of crime—but this time in America. These stories are narrated by her cohort, Harry “Bunny”...
One of My Sons - Anna Katharine Green
One of My Sons - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry for help only to find himself as the last person to see her grandfather alive and left with the admonishment...
A Study In Scarlet (version 5) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (version 5) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"A Study in Scarlet" is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson and recounts his first experiences of meeting the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and their...
The Grand Babylon Hotel - Arnold Bennett
The Grand Babylon Hotel - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurous hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds out there are strange things going on - a German prince is supposed to arrive but never turns up, someone is...
Officer 666 - Barton Wood CURRIE
Officer 666 - Barton Wood CURRIE
- Author: Barton Wood CURRIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
Bored with his life as a wealthy businessman's only son, Travers Gladwin learns of a plot by a renowned art burglar to rob his house, so rather than thwart the planned burglary, he borrows a police uniform from a friend and decides to confront the...
The Mystery of the Locks - E. W. HOWE
The Mystery of the Locks - E. W. HOWE
- Author: E. W. HOWE
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very curious about the stranger, and very...
The Mystery of the Four Fingers - Fred M. WHITE
The Mystery of the Four Fingers - Fred M. WHITE
- Author: Fred M. WHITE
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A fabulously rich gold mine in Mexico is known by the picturesque and mysterious name of The Four Fingers. It originally belonged to an Aztec tribe, and its location is known to one surviving descendant. Surprises, strange and startling, are...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of the thirteen stories adapted as...
Eleven Possible Cases - Various
Eleven Possible Cases - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This book brings together eleven stories, each a case of intrigue where more is going on than seems at first. - Summary by A. Gramour...
The Midnight Passenger - Richard Henry SAVAGE
The Midnight Passenger - Richard Henry SAVAGE
- Author: Richard Henry SAVAGE
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hugh Worthington’s motives were not altruistic – he had a secret to hide and a scheme to bring to fruition that...
No Name - Wilkie Collins
No Name - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is killed suddenly in an accident and his wife follows shortly thereafter, it is revealed that they were not...
The Black Bag - Louis Joseph Vance
The Black Bag - Louis Joseph Vance
- Author: Louis Joseph Vance
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified favor, but Kirkwood doesn''t trust him and sends him away. That night, he sees the stranger dine with his...
Jacqueline of Golden River - Victor ROUSSEAU
Jacqueline of Golden River - Victor ROUSSEAU
- Author: Victor ROUSSEAU
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Jacqueline seems to have contracted a touch of amnesia, as she is found in an apartment with a dead man, and with a weapon in her hand. But she remembers nothing of any incident, remembers not her name nor where she comes from, not even why she is...
At the Villa Rose - A. E. W. Mason
At the Villa Rose - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Harry Wethermill, the brilliant young scientist, a graduate of Oxford and Munich, has made a fortune from his inventions, and is taking a vacation at Aix-les-Bains. There he meets, and immediately falls in love with, the young and beautiful Celia...
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper - Sax Rohmer
The Quest of the Sacred Slipper - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Cavanagh becomes involved in the adventurous search for a precious relic in the mysterious East. (Introduction by Laineyben)...
Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective - Percy James BREBNER
Christopher Quarles: College Professor and Master Detective - Percy James BREBNER
- Author: Percy James BREBNER
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Christopher Quarles is a professor of philosophy and a private consulting detective. Quarles, along with his granddaughter Zena, assists Police Detective Murray Wigan in solving various crimes and mysteries in Victorian England. Whereas the police...
The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice - Wilkie Collins
The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
A kind, good-hearted genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appearing in an hotel all combine to create a horrifying conundrum. Who was the culprit and will finding out...
The Grell Mystery - Frank FROEST
The Grell Mystery - Frank FROEST
- Author: Frank FROEST
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Mr Robert Grell, millionaire and socialite, is found murdered in his study on a stormy evening. It's up to Heldon Foyle, the detective, to unravel the mystery. (Summary by Christine Blachford - to be expanded)...
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale - Frank L. Packard
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured...
Man Overboard - Francis Marion Crawford
Man Overboard - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin Benton brothers. But oddly...
Dead Men Tell No Tales - E. W. Hornung
Dead Men Tell No Tales - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 – March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and was born in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham during some of the later years of its great...
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - Baroness Orczy
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also invented two...
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - Various
The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Detective Fiction
To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" released on Librivox, here is a collection of stories starring his contemporary American rivals. Brought together and re-published in a single volume by Hugh Greene in...
The Secret of Lonesome Cove - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
The Secret of Lonesome Cove - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Author: Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
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 town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them assume that she simply washed...
The Woman in the Alcove - Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate." Thus begins this mystery told by Anna...
Captain Ted - Mary T. WAGGAMAN
Captain Ted - Mary T. WAGGAMAN
- Author: Mary T. WAGGAMAN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to help support his family. Without his realization he is thrown into a world of crime and counterfeiting. Will...
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set on lonely Dartmoor in Devonshire....
Bungay Castle: A Novel - Elizabeth BONHÔTE
Bungay Castle: A Novel - Elizabeth BONHÔTE
- Author: Elizabeth BONHÔTE
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin, search for the source of strange,...
The Seen and the Unseen - Richard Marsh
The Seen and the Unseen - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a pack of cards which belonged to a dead card-trickster ? These and more questions are raised and answered in...
A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt...
The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventure of the Speckled Band - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are awoken early by a distraught woman desperately seeking their aid. Something is terribly wrong and she fears for her life. Upon hearing her story, Sherlock agrees and springs into action to track down and deal with the...
The Diamond Cross Mystery - Chester K. STEELE
The Diamond Cross Mystery - Chester K. STEELE
- Author: Chester K. STEELE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stolen. Whodunnit, and how can the Colonel's expertise in fishing help to solve the case? (Summary by Carolin)...
The Exploits of Juve (version 2) - Marcel ALLAIN
The Exploits of Juve (version 2) - Marcel ALLAIN
- Author: Marcel ALLAIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The second book in the Fantômas series by the prolific authors Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (they published 32 Fantômas novels between 1911 and 1913.) Fantômas broke the mold of the Gentlemen burglars like Raffles and Arsene Lupin. He killed...
Lost Man's Lane - Anna Katharine Green
Lost Man's Lane - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime.The author of Lost Man’s Lane, Anna...
The Valley of Fear (Version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear (Version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth and final novel of Sherlock Holmes is based on the real-life adventures of the mob in Pennsylvania and the...
