Crime & Mystery Fiction
Lady Audley's Secret
Read by Mark Leder
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
It is June 1857, and young and beautiful Lucy Graham is about to marry Sir Michael Audley. But who exactly IS Lucy, that's what Sir Michael…
Detour
Read by Ben Tucker
Martin M. Goldsmith
Alexander Roth is a jazz fiddle player who can't quite seem to catch a break after losing his job and having his best girl Sue leave him to …
The Early Adventures of Don Everhard
Read by Ben Tucker
Gordon Young
Before Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op and before Carroll John Daly's Race Williams, there was Don Everhard, hard-boiled professional gamb…
The Count's Millions
Read by Celine Major
Émile Gaboriau
The wealthy Count de Chalusse is struck with apoplexy and dies without a will, leaving Marguerite the orphan (daughter?) he adopted penniles…
The Thrill Book
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Greye La Spina, P. A. Connolly, John Russell Coryell, Harry C. Douglas, Harold Hersey and Albert Owens
The Thrill Book is back with another exciting issue to tantalize the senses with tales of action, suspense and terror! Keep your guard up as…
Jewel Mysteries
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Sir Max Pemberton
A selection of ten short mystery and detective stories as told by a jewelry dealer of suspect repute. Includes "The Necklace of the Gre…
Homicide Hussy
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Atha Mcguire
In that bedlam of mad-women - in that nightmare world of twisted souls - Johanna knew she was sane.... Some of them tried to kill her, some …
The Thrill Book
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Murray Leinster
Welcome fellow travelers to another exciting issue of The Thrill Book! Herein lies all manner of stories for the discerning fan of pulp fic…
The Thing Beyond Reason
Read by Cathy Howell
Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Lexy Moran, a resourceful young woman, is on a mission to find her employer’s daughter Caroline Enderby. After standing up her fiancé…
The Thrill Book
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John Russell Coryell and Sophie Wenzel Ellis
Escape into another exciting issue of the influential pulp magazine The Thrill Book! In this issue, beware the "Vengeance of Vishnu&qu…
The Set-Up
Read by Ben Tucker
Joseph Moncure March
The Set-Up is the classic epic hard-edged poem of an aging African American boxer who is set up to take a fall in the ring against a younger…
The Shadow of the Rope
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E. W. Hornung
Unhappy Rachel Minchin is planning to return to her native Australia. The morning of her departure, she finds herself a widow, and embroiled…
The Secret of the Old Clock
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The first book in the Nancy Drew mystery series. Did old Josiah Crowley leave behind a second will? Nancy Drew is determined to find out bef…
The Wiles of the Wicked
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William Le Queux
Set in London in the late 1800's, Wilford Heaton, a medical school graduate, and suddenly blind, witnesses a double murder. He meets with t…
The Hidden Staircase
Read by Amanda Leung
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The second book in the Nancy Drew detective series. Is it a ghost causing the mysterious noises and shadows in the old Turnbull mansion, or …
The Cloven Foot
Read by Mark Leder
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
John Traverton goes to visit his uncle Jasper. Jasper wishes John to marry his adopted daughter, Laura. If he does so within one calendar y…
Murder by the Clock
Read by Roger Melin
Rufus King
Lieutenant Valcour must solve the murder of a man who was murdered twice! At 8:34 P.M. the body of Mr. Endicott is first discovered. By midn…
Till The Clock Stops
Read by Tom Penn
J. J. Bell
Multimillionaire Christopher Craig is dying, and his only relative and heir, nephew Alan Craig, disappeared while on an Arctic expedition ab…
The Hours After Midnight
Read by Ben Tucker
Joseph Hayes
When Julie gets in a fight with her beau Phil, she is thrown into the arms of the greasy, long-haired delinquent Nolan who has plans for Jul…
Masterpieces of Mystery
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Joseph Lewis French
A selection of detective mysteries by a variety of well known authors. This collection is edited by Joseph Lewis French. - Summary by Miche…