Mystery & Detective audiobooks
A Double Barreled Detective Story
by Mark TwainA Double Barreled Detective Story is a short story/novelette by Mark Twain,, in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. The story contains two arcs of revenges. In the primary arc, a rich young woman is abused, humiliated and abandoned by her new husband, Jacob Fuller, whom she married against the wishes of her father. The young F..
Emma: A Fragment of a Story
by Charlotte BrontePublished posthumously and prefaced by Charlotte Brontë's editor, W. M. Thackeray, these two chapters are the only existing fragments of Emma, the novel Brontë worked on until her untimely death. Since then, it has been "completed" twice by other authors.Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Co..
The Man Who was Thursday
by G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton's political thriller The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare deals with religion and anarchism. The protagonist Gabriel Syme has been assigned by Scotland Yard to intrude and eradicate the anarchists. Hiding his identity he pretends to be a poet and connecting himself to Lucian Gregory on a debate on poetry. To prove his point Gregor..
Jezebel's Daughter
by Wilkie CollinsJezebel's Daughter is a sensation novel published in 1880 and dedicated to Alberto Caccia, Collins's Italian translator. Based on the 1858 play, The Red Vial, Collins's attempt to write for 'the masses' resulted in an unduly melodramatic tone. The novel, however, is notable for the way it handles the treatment of lunatics and the mental..
Dark Night's Work
by Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellA Dark Night's Work is an 1863 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published serially in Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round. The word "dark" was added to the original title by Dickens against Gaskell's wishes. Dickens felt that the altered title would be more striking. The story centers on a country lawyer, Edward Wilkins, and his d..
Colonel Quaritch, V.C.: A Tale of Country Life
by Henry Rider HaggardThis is not your typical H. Rider Haggard adventure book yet it is full of mystery and intrigue including a coerced marriage, bigotry, adultery, murder and a buried treasure! This is the tale of an ancient family’s struggles to survive, one woman’s selflessness and another’s evil schemes; Two Gentlemen, two scoundrels and one very underestimated, l..
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Edgar Allan PoeThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838) is the only complete novel written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym, who stows away aboard a whaling ship called the Grampus. Various adventures and misadventures befall Pym, including shipwreck, mutiny, and cannibalism, before he is s..