Classic Audiobook Collection

The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy New York banker is found murdered in his own home, the crime threatens to shatter a powerful family and ignite a public scandal. The victim's household is full of secrets: anxious relatives, wary servants, and visitors whose alibis crumble under scrutiny. Into this uneasy maze steps detective Ebenezer Gryce, a me...

The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a snowbound corner of New York society, the seasonal clubhouse known as The Whispering Pines has been shut and locked for the winter - or so Elwood Ranelagh believes. Then, only a day after the closing, he spots smoke curling from its chimney. Uneasy, he forces his way inside and catches a startling glimpse in t...

The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself. Being young, untrammeled, and naturally indifferent to danger, I was not averse to adventure; and having my fortune to make, w...

The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, 'The Forsaken Inn' is a locked-room mystery that keeps readers guessing about what has happened. A young couple stays at the inn for the night, and goes on their way in the morning ... and several years later, the...

The Filigree Ball by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery [The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial times; but the shadow which speedily fell across it made it a marked place even in those early days. While it has a...

The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy New York gentleman is found shot dead in his own home, the crime seems impossible to untangle: the house offers few clear clues, the night was quiet, and suspicion falls in unsettling directions. Called in to restore order is the shrewd, methodical detective Ebenezer Gryce, whose calm persistence h...

The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid...

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery On the evening before his wedding, well-to-do collector Sinclair shows off a strange and beautiful curiosity: an amethyst box concealing a minute vial of deadly poison. When the box vanishes soon after, the celebration curdles into panic. Sinclair turns to his closest friend and best man, Worthington, with a fear he can barely spea...

The Chief Legatee by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery On the very day of her brilliant New York wedding, Georgian Hazen begins to act like a woman under sentence. Within hours of registering at a hotel with her new husband, Roger J. Ransom, the bride vanishes, leaving behind only bewildering clues and a reputation that society is eager to shred. Roger follows the trail to the rain-so...

The Bronze Hand by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In anxious pre-Civil War Baltimore, young Abbott has time on his hands and an obsession he cannot explain: the striking, secretive woman who lodges in the room below his. When a thief snatches a ring from her hand as she closes her shutters, she turns to Abbott instead of the police, insisting the stolen trinket is far more dangerou...

That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet New York neighborhood of well-kept brownstones and closely watched manners, a sudden gunshot shatters the calm and a young woman is found dead behind a locked door. With the police baffled by a case that seems to point everywhere and nowhere at once, the investigation turns to the people who knew the household best...

One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery On a raw autumn evening in New York, young lawyer Arthur Outhwaite is stopped in the street by a terrified child who begs him to come at once to her grandfather. Inside the elegant Gillespie house, Arthur arrives just in time to witness a powerful man at the edge of death, and to receive a final, baffling charge: a sealed letter must...

Missing - Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery The story revolves around a brave, young and quite petite female detective known by the name of Violet Strange. As she is summoned to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from a very important document, her insight and deduction skills become essential to the lives of several individuals who add color and dimension to Gr...

Lost Man’s Lane by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a quiet upstate New York village gains a chilling nickname for a lonely stretch of road, the rumors are too persistent to ignore: over the years, men have simply vanished while walking alone along the same country lane. Veteran police inspector Ebenezer Gryce believes the pattern points to something darker than chance, but the...

Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In the quiet New York town of Sibley, a knot of lawyers and officials linger on the courthouse steps swapping theories about crime when a stranger offers a chilling observation: the boldest offenses are sometimes committed in full view, where no one thinks to look. Minutes later, the woman living in the plain house he indicated, the w...

Doctor Izard by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery By a mysterious contrivance, penniless and parentless Polly Earle has become an heiress with $20,000. (A respectable little fortune in 1895, when DOCTOR IZARD was published). Raised by kind neighbors in a village in Massachusetts, Polly is now eighteen and a beauty. Her happiness seems assured. But there are ominous questions in the ba...

Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber audiobook. Genre: comedy This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef, Medium and the second Personality Plus). Edna Ferber first gained success with these stories...

The World With A Thousand Moons by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi Lance Kenniston is a hard-edged asteroid man running out of time. Stranded on Mars without a ship, he and his hulking Jovian partner, Holk Or, gamble everything on a reckless plan: recruit a bored group of wealthy thrill-seekers and hitch a ride aboard their sleek private cruiser. Kenniston offers them the ultimate adventur...

The City at World’s End by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi A quiet Midwestern town is living an ordinary day when a burst of unimaginable force rips reality apart. In an instant, the familiar streets of Middletown are torn out of their own time and flung to the last age of the cosmos, when the stars are dying and the universe itself is running down. Stranded beyond any hope of rescue, the...

Citadel of the Star Lords by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi When down-on-his-luck pilot Price blunders into military trouble, a desperate flight takes him straight into the shockwave of an experimental blast. The concussion does not kill him - it hurls him into a future Earth a hundred years beyond his own, where the old world has collapsed and the planet is controlled from a formidable s...

Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi On the dying world of Barsoom, Princess Thuvia of Ptarth is celebrated for her honor and beauty, and desired as much for the power her hand in marriage could confer as for love itself. When she travels to the court of Helium to secure a political alliance, she crosses paths with Carthoris, the proud young warrior son of John Cart...

Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi When wealthy young adventurer David Innes agrees to test an experimental digging machine built by brilliant but absent-minded inventor Abner Perry, the trial goes catastrophically off course. The steel mole bores deep beneath the Earth and breaks into a vast inner world called Pellucidar - a sunlit realm with no night, no seasons, and no r...

Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the steaming heart of equatorial Africa to reveal early, hard-won chapters in the making of the ape-man. Living as an outsider among the great apes yet driven by a human mind he cannot fully name, Tarzan must learn to survive by tooth, vine, and instinct while also...

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook. Genre: mystery In 19th-century Paris, a pair of brutal, seemingly impossible killings shatter the calm of a quiet neighborhood near the Rue Morgue. The crime scene is baffling: the apartment is locked, the violence is extreme, and witnesses disagree on what they heard - except for one chilling detail, a strange voice that no one can clear...

Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott audiobook. Genre: mystery When Giles Dudley receives an urgent summons from his cousin, Henry Wilton, he expects a straightforward errand. Instead, his arrival in San Francisco drops him into a maze of unanswered questions and quiet threats. Henry is missing almost as soon as Giles steps off the train, leaving behind only fragments of a shadowy situation Giles d...