Detective Fiction - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 5
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful Victoria. She is on her way to...
John Silence - Algernon Blackwood
John Silence - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
Six stories about Dr. John Silence if you want the shivers to run up your back, this is the right place to be (Summary by Fiddlesticks)...
The Mystery of the Iron Box - Bruce CAMPBELL
The Mystery of the Iron Box - Bruce CAMPBELL
- Author: Bruce CAMPBELL
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Action & Adventure
When Ken Holt's father, the famous newspaper writer, comes home for a Christmas visit, one of the gifts he brings is an antique iron box. Soon after he arrives a serious of unexplained events occur, including an attempted burglary. A hunch that the...
Bulldog Drummond - Sapper
Bulldog Drummond - Sapper
- Author: Sapper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
‘Sapper’, the pseudonym of Colonel. H.C. McNeile M.C. was one of the most popular English writers of thrillers between the two world wars. And Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond was his most popular leading character. This book, the first of the series, is of...
Murder Takes the Veil - Margaret Ann HUBBARD
Murder Takes the Veil - Margaret Ann HUBBARD
- Author: Margaret Ann HUBBARD
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Set in the Louisiana bayou country, here is a drama rich with suspense...the story of lovely Trillium Pierce powerless at the mercy of a murderer who believes that he has no power over himself - that his determination to kill is written in the...
Smugglers' Reef - Harold L. Goodwin
Smugglers' Reef - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Seventh entry in the Rick Brant Science Mystery Adventure series has Rick and buddy Scott using infrared technology on the trail of smuggling no-goodniks in the vicinity of Spindrift Island, Rick's home and location of his dad's laboratory, off the...
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1 - Thomas Peckett PREST
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1 - Thomas Peckett PREST
- Author: Thomas Peckett PREST
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula, which it heavily influenced. Flora Bannersworth is...
Basil - Wilkie Collins
Basil - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper....
The Lodger - Marie Belloc LOWNDES
The Lodger - Marie Belloc LOWNDES
- Author: Marie Belloc LOWNDES
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"The story is about a Jack the Ripper-type murderer known only as "The Avenger" in London, who has been killing young blonde women. Meanwhile, a mysterious man arrives at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Bunting looking for a room to rent. The Bunting's...
The Film Mystery - Arthur B. Reeve
The Film Mystery - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Film Mystery is one of eighteen detective novels by Arthur B. Reeve starring his best known character Professor Craig Kennedy and his trusty sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. The pair bears an unmistakable resemblance to the more...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2) - Mark Twain
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Detective Fiction
It was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identities — the judge's murderer, Tom, Chambers — must be...
The Just And The Unjust - Vaughan KESTER
The Just And The Unjust - Vaughan KESTER
- Author: Vaughan KESTER
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Framed for a murder he did not commit, John North must rely on his friends to help clear him of the charge. But, are they really his friends? Many have dirty little secrets they wish to keep private, even at the expense of John North’s life....
The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Arsène Lupin returns in a wonderful story of disguises, love, and of course treasure. Once again, Lupin crosses paths with the famous Holmlock Shears. But this time Arsène matches wits with Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy. Every step that...
The Rebel Rose - Justin McCarthy
The Rebel Rose - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her family claims legitimized. The Pretendress -- as she is called, finds herself caught up in the devices of her own...
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...
Red Arrows in the Night - Daniel A. LORD
Red Arrows in the Night - Daniel A. LORD
- Author: Daniel A. LORD
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Religious Fiction
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold was always heralded by the apparition of the Scarlet Archer. Now in the early years of WWII, the archer has...
The Secret Passage - Fergus Hume
The Secret Passage - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o'-lantern murder mysteries. It...
The Hand in the Dark - Arthur J. REES
The Hand in the Dark - Arthur J. REES
- Author: Arthur J. REES
- Genre: Detective Fiction
An ancient English country house with a storied and bloody history is the setting for this intriguing mystery. It is the autumn of 1918. The War to End All Wars is still raging in Europe, but in this peaceful setting a bored young wife hosts a party...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colonial period. The solitude of the woods was breathtaking, and not even a schoolmaster was immune from the...
The Dragon's Secret - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Dragon's Secret - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Sixteen year old Leslie Crane has come to the New Jersey shore as a companion to ailing Aunt Marcia, whose doctor has sent her there for a some quiet rest and recuperation. While the beach is lovely in October, Leslie quickly finds herself getting...
The Blue Envelope - Roy J. Snell
The Blue Envelope - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska....
Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery - Absalom MARTIN
Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery - Absalom MARTIN
- Author: Absalom MARTIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
A series of murders occur at the remote seaside mansion of a millionaire in Florida. The mystery is heightened via local lore of pirates and hidden treasure, not to mention a fabled ancient octopus said to have a taste for the local black...
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. - The Secret Sharer was first published in...
Against Odds - Lawrence L. LYNCH
Against Odds - Lawrence L. LYNCH
- Author: Lawrence L. LYNCH
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Believed to have been written by Chicago socialite, Emma Murdock Van Deventer, this detective story set at the World's Fair follows Carl Masters as he is in pursuit of international criminals Greenback Bob and Delbras. Conmen, lost handbags, jewel...
The Big Bow Mystery - Israel Zangwill
The Big Bow Mystery - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Satire
It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says, "one sublimely simple solution"...
The Wisdom of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
The Wisdom of Father Brown - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Detective Fiction
This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella who has an uncanny insight into...
A Study in Scarlet (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was...
Whose Body? (Version 2) - Dorothy L. SAYERS
Whose Body? (Version 2) - Dorothy L. SAYERS
- Author: Dorothy L. SAYERS
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles Parker, who figures more or less prominently in...
A Study In Scarlet (Version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (Version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was...
The Dark House - George Manville Fenn
The Dark House - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Detective Fiction
An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most of the people at the reading of the will did not know the deceased in person, but had received kindnesses from...
The Stillwater Tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Stillwater Tragedy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American poet, novelist and editor. Of his many books of poetry and fiction, he may be best known for his semi-autobiographical novel, The Story of a Bad Boy and his collection of short stories, Majorie Daw and Other...
The Secret of Casa Grande - Helen RANDOLPH
The Secret of Casa Grande - Helen RANDOLPH
- Author: Helen RANDOLPH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Action & Adventure
While visiting their friend, Florence, at her home in Mexico, Jo Ann and Peggy noticed a barred window which has no opening into any of the rooms of an ancient adobe house. Curious to find out what it is, the girls tried to investigate but no one...
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta - Guy Boothby
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Guy Newell Boothby (1867 – 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola mysteries. This book is the first in a series of five and introduces the good doctor himself. Dr Nikola Is a...
The Black Moth (version 2) - Georgette Heyer
The Black Moth (version 2) - Georgette Heyer
- Author: Georgette Heyer
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
Jack Carstares, oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, has been disgraced by his brother. Gone for six years, living the life a highwayman he meets the woman he will fall in love with. Saving her from being kidnapped by a dastardly blackguard he is injured...
The Shadow of the Rope - E. W. Hornung
The Shadow of the Rope - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury astonishes and outrages the world...
Miss Frances Baird, detective - Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
Miss Frances Baird, detective - Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
- Author: Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to "The Maples" to guard a valuable set of diamonds during the festivities leading up to the marriage of Mr. Deneen's eldest son, James...
The Mystery at Number Six - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Mystery at Number Six - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mysterious girl, a mysterious pool, and a mysterious businessman combine to send two Florida teens to adventureland in this pre-Nancy Drew tale for young people.(Summary by Sibella)...
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar - Maurice Leblanc
The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking...
The Gloved Hand - Burton Egbert Stevenson
The Gloved Hand - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country where at midnight they witness a mysterious "falling star" that appears to burst into a shower of sparks over...
