Crime & Mystery Fiction
Eddystone
Read by Rainer
Wilhelm Jensen
Es ist die Nacht vom 26. auf den 27. November des Jahres 1703. Eine muntere Gesellschaft feiert auf dem Eddystone die Fertigstellung des neu…
Fenton's Quest
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …
The Million-Dollar Suitcase
Read by Mark Nelson
Alice Macgowan
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…
The Amateur Cracksman
Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)
E. W. Hornung
"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial bille…
Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
That Affair at Portstead Manor
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Gladys Edson Locke
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 w…
The Clue of the Silken Ladder
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secre…
The Secret Pact
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…
Three Thousand Dollars
Read by Roger Melin
Anna Katharine Green
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…
Cynthia Wakeham's Money
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Anna Katharine Green
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 wit…
Das Haus des schwarzen Magiers
Read by ClaudiaSterngucker
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Was, wenn Geistererscheinungen nichts Übernatürliches sind, sondern etwas Natürliches, das man wissenschaftlich erforschen un…
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary
Read by Holly Jenson
Geraldine Bonner
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on …
The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and th…
Read by Leni
Maurice Leblanc
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title &q…
Midnight
Read by Roger Melin
Octavus Roy Cohen
The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blind--the…
The Italian
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Ann Radcliffe
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would…
As We Forgive Them
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton are bachelors who share a flat on Great Russell Street. Neither are especially prosperous but through e…
The Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading)
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Frederick Arnold Kummer
(Written under the pseudonym, Arnold Fredericks.)Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealt…
The Yellow House
Read by Sharon Kilmer
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that…
The Wishing Well
Read by Cheryl Adam
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysterie…
A Chain of Evidence
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Carolyn Wells
The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, "if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there w…