The Uttermost Farthing audiobook
by R. Austin Freeman (1862-1943)
Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological abnormalities but also 24 articulated human skeletons without any apparent defect. His friend, Dr. Wharton, is puzzled by the collection, but he humors Challoner's eccentricities and tends to him in his final illness. When Wharton inherits the collection on Challoner's death, the dark mystery Read more [...]
Category: Mystery Stories
The Innocence of Father Brown audiobook
by G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) is the first of five collections of mystery stories by G. K. Chesterton starring an unimposing but surprisingly capable Roman Catholic priest. Father Brown's ability to uncover the truth behind the mystery continually surpasses that of the "experts" around him, who are fooled into underestimation by the priest's unimpressive outward appearance and, often, by their own prejudices about Read more [...]
Short Mystery Story Collection
Short Mystery Story Collection: a collection of short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Short Ghost and Horror Collection
Short Ghost and Horror audio book collection read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of tears, we will have succeeded.
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Library of World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories
by Julian Hawthorne, editor
In the six volumes of the Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the first volume, we Read more [...]