Episodes

  • Secret Passage-Fergus Hume

    Secret Passage-Fergus Hume
    12 Nov 2026
    Secret Passage by Fergus Hume.

    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 begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere..."

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    9 hrs and 2 min
  • After House-Mary Roberts Rinehart

    After House-Mary Roberts Rinehart
    11 Nov 2026
    After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart.

    Ralph Leslie, a brand-new MD, realizes that a life of adventure holds more appeal than hospital rounds and daily clinics. Is it good luck, bad luck, or just fate that lands him as deck steward on the schooner Ella? Because once in open water, the booze flows too freely, old animosities resurface, and new ones form. And then someone starts behaving badly, so badly, in fact, that people are turning up dead. It becomes Leslie’s job to get the Ella, its crew and passengers, and the evidence back to port before the murderer strikes again.

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    5 hrs and 45 min
  • Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories-Joel Chandler Harris

    Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories-Joel Chandler Harris
    10 Nov 2026
    Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories by Joel Chandler Harris.

    While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. The stories in this collection follow detectives as they unravel mysteries in times of war, where danger awaits them at every turn.

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    5 hrs and 49 min
  • Hushed Up! A Mystery of London-William Le Queux

    Hushed Up! A Mystery of London-William Le Queux
    9 Nov 2026
    Hushed Up! A Mystery of London by William Le Queux.

    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 disappearance! Is she his new found love or his nemesis? And who is this mysterious clergyman that warns him to avoid this young woman, at risk of his very life! What possible harm could this sweet young woman inflict? Written by one of the Masters of Mystery, William Le Queux.

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    7 hrs and 14 min
  • Hermit of ---- Street-Anna Katharine Green

    Hermit of ---- Street-Anna Katharine Green
    8 Nov 2026
    Hermit of ---- Street by Anna Katharine Green.

    Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks straight into a mystery when one day a fire starts in one of the upper rooms of his house and she dashes over to warn him, only to have him lock her in with instructions to let no one else in. Why is he so insistent that no one come in? What secrets are hidden within the walls of this house?

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    1 hr and 31 min
  • Gray Phantom-Herman Landon

    Gray Phantom-Herman Landon
    7 Nov 2026
    Gray Phantom by Herman Landon.

    A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening during a performance. Helen Hardwick happened to be in attendance that evening, as she had written the play that was being performed, and she was the only person to have caught a glimpse of something peculiar just before the murder. She also heard an ominous laughter which would haunt her for a long time. Was the Gray Phantom involved, or could he assist with the investigation that Helen was to become involved with?

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    8 hrs and 13 min
  • Cry at Midnight-Mildred A. Wirt Benson

    Cry at Midnight-Mildred A. Wirt Benson
    6 Nov 2026
    Cry at Midnight by Mildred A. Wirt Benson.

    Late one night, amateur sleuth Peggy Parker and her friend see an unexplained light and hear a terrifying scream from an abandoned old monastery outside of town. Upon further investigation, they discover that the building is not abandoned after all but is the home of a mysterious cult! Join Peggy on multiple adventures while she works to solve the mystery of the “Cry at Midnight.”

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    4 hrs and 16 min
  • Tom Ossington's Ghost-Richard Marsh

    Tom Ossington's Ghost-Richard Marsh
    5 Nov 2026
    Tom Ossington's Ghost by Richard Marsh.

    Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for a piano lesson from Madge, suddenly bolts out the back door and over the hedge when he sees a rough-looking character watching him from the street in front of the cottage. This man in turn, runs away when he sees a shabbily dressed woman come around the corner. The woman, marches into the cottage, declaring that the cottage is haunted, and she is the wife of the ghost! An attempted burglary, and a cryptic note left at the scene, just add to the mystery.

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    5 hrs and 12 min