Mystery & Thriller

No Clue! A Mystery Story

by James Hay Read by Roger Melin 4.3
“No Clue! A Mystery Story” finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when …

The House of a Thousand Candles

by Meredith Nicholson Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Gl…

The Herapath Property

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.3
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet woun…

The Iron Heel

by Jack London Read by Matt Soar 4.5
The Iron Heel is a powerful exploration of a dystopian future where an American oligarchy exerts brutal control over the populace. Set in th…

The Eye of Osiris

by R. Austin Freeman Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.6
The Eye of Osiris is an early example from the Dr. Thorndyke series of detective stories written by R. Austin Freeman. In these stories, th…

Dark Hollow

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is conv…

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…

813

by Maurice Leblanc Read by Cate Barratt 4.7
In 813, the clever gentleman thief Arsène Lupin is once again embroiled in a web of intrigue and deception. Wrongfully accused of mur…

Three Thousand Dollars

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Roger Melin 4.4
This short story by Anna Katharine Green revolves around a plot to steal some goods secured safely within an impenetrable vault within the c…

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…

The Emperor's Candlesticks

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Kevin Green 4.6
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

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…

Quick Silver

by Derek Mathias Read by Derek Mathias 4.6
What does a reformed cat burglar do when he has only months left to live? Sylvester "Silver" Larcini decides to test his skills on…

The Hand in the Dark

by Arthur J. Rees Read by Jacquerie 4.6
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…

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab

by Fergus Hume Read by Sibella Denton 4.5
“The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certa…

Eleanor's Victory

by Mary Elizabeth Braddon Read by Eleanor Howard 4.6
Only 15-years-old, Eleanor Vane is very happy with her lot: educated in an expensive finishing school in Paris, the apple of her father's ey…

Hushed Up! A Mystery of London

by William Le Queux Read by Tom Weiss 4.2
A young man, Owen Biddulph, is drawn to a beautiful young woman with a mysterious past... a past that seems to have returned to cause her di…

The Hampstead Mystery

by Arthur J. Rees Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…

The Clue of the Silken Ladder

by Mildred A. Wirt Benson Read by Cheryl Adam 4.6
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secre…

Deadly Games

by Lindsay Buroker Read by Lindsay Buroker 4.7
When you’ve been accused of kidnapping an emperor, and every enforcer in the city wants your head, it’s hard to prove yourself an honorable …

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