Mystery & Thriller

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…

The Black Museum

by Harry Alan Towers Read by Orson Welles 4.7
The Black Museum, opening in 1875, is the oldest museum in the world dedicated to recording crime. Coined in 1877 by a reporter, the name &q…

The Million-Dollar Suitcase

by Alice Macgowan Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
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 Vanishing Man

by R. Austin Freeman Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.6
A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in wh…

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he b…

The Mayor's Wife

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …

The Innocence of Father Brown

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Brian Roberg 4.5
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surp…

Isobel

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…

Unkillable

by Patrick E. McLean Read by Patrick E. McLean 4.5
Unkillable is the story of a young man who is cruelly murdered then brought back from the dead to revenge himself. The kicker is: He’s not r…

The Master of the World

by Jules Verne Read by Mark F. Smith 4.4
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volca…

Miss Frances Baird, Detective

by Reginald Wright Kauffman Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.4
Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to "The Maples" to…

The Middle of Things

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Nathalie J. 4.5
A habitual late night stroll down Markendale Square plunges Viner into the middle of things most mysterious and most perplexing. A murder, a…

The Hemlock Avenue Mystery

by Lily A. Long Read by Roger Melin 4.5
"The Hemlock Avenue Mystery" is one of a series of mysteries written by Lily Augusta Long using the pseudonym Roman Doubleday. A …

A Double Barreled Detective Story

by Mark Twain Read by John Greenman 4.5
A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west.At…

The Paradise Mystery

by J. S. Fletcher Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In the tranquil yet enigmatic cathedral town of Paradise, the peace is shattered by a shocking murder. As whispers and rumors swirl among th…

Scarhaven Keep

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Set against the rugged beauty of the northern English sea coast, Scarhaven Keep weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue. When a sudden disappe…

The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers Read by Peter Yearsley 4.7
Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Murder On The Orient Express

by Agatha Christie 4.9
Murder on the Orient Express is a five-part dramatisation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 murder mystery, adapted by Michael Bakewell. An all-star…

The Green Jacket

by Jennette Lee Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
An early example of the female private detective, Jennette Lee’s Millicent Newberry made her first appearance in The Green Jacket in 1917 an…

The Secret of Lonesome Cove

by Samuel Hopkins Adams Read by Roger Melin 4.4
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…

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