Classic Mystery Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Detective Stories

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Maurice Leblanc delivers another Arsene Lupin adventure set in World War I. (Summary by Cathy Barratt). Author: Maurice Leblanc Length: 11 hours 12 minutes Genre: General Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 20:03 - Chapter 2 36:58 - Chapter 3 54:12 - Chapter 4 01:10:22 - Chapter 5 01:26:15 - Chapter 6 01:43:39 - Chapter 7 02:04:42 - C...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Le Fanu's inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious characters. An unwanted guest visiting a dreary and isolated home is murdered; the thriller leads the reader down countless 'dead' ends before revealing the identity of the guilty party. Author: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Length: 4 hours 18 m...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Michael Berrington is a bachelor leading a quiet life in London. Overhearing a conversation at his club one day, he becomes interested in a discussion regarding a man named Gastrell. Author: William Le Queux Length: 9 hours 14 minutes Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction, General Fiction, Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers Chapters: 00:00 - Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. Author: Anna Katharine Green Length: 9 hours 35 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 10:15 - Chapter 2 29:50 - Chapter 3 45:11 - Chapter 4 54:38 - Chapter 5 01:10:18 - Chapter 6 01:33:29 - Chapter 7 01:43:33 - Chapter...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Mr. and Mrs. Author: Chester K. Steele Length: 6 hours 13 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 15:00 - Chapter 2 25:13 - Chapter 3 35:28 - Chapter 4 49:42 - Chapter 5 01:01:51 - Chapter 6 01:12:21 - Chapter 7 01:21:32 - Chapter 8 01:31:42 - Chapter 9 01:41:28 - Chapter 10 01:52:03 - Chapter 11 02:06:03 - Chapter 12 02:15:50 - Cha...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled with politics and it takes a parish priest to discover "whodunit" in this thriller by a husband and wife novelist team. Author: Grace Johnson Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Ch...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too. Author: R. Austin Freeman Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Genre: Classic Detective Mystery Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 12:37 - Chapter 2 35:19 - Chapter 3 01:00:36 - Chapter 4 01:21:32 - Chapter 5 01:43:30 - Chapter 6...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank's vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from their bank. Author: J. S. Fletcher Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 15:09 - Chapter 2 29:10 - C...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, a chemical scientist, a bride and groom, depend on the quick resolution of this problem. Author: Anna Katharine Green Length: 1 hours 33 minutes Genre: Classi...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Author: Mark Twain Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 0...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Whose Body. is the first of Dorothy Sayers's famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. Author: Dorothy L. Sayers Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 26:40 - Chapter 2 01:00:13 - Chapter 3 01:25:35 - Chapter 4 02:09:49 - Chapter 5 02:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it soon becomes clear to both Dixon Druce and his friend, police surgeon Eric Vandeleur, that there is something sinister about the woman and the goings on at her shop on the Strand. Author: Robert Eustace Length: 4 hours...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of the thirteen stories adapted as episodes for the first season. Author: Various Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction, Short...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A true "whodunit" with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Author: William Le Queux Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Genre: General Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 09:51 - Chapter 2 17:03 - Chapter 3 28:10 - Chapter 4 36:12 - Chapter 5 49:26 - Chapter 6 01:04:43 - Chapter...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A short time later a dead body is found in the river, and Bruce follows the trails. Author: Louis Tracy Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 18:52 - Chapter 2 38:30 - Chapter...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com 'Sapper', the pseudonym of Colonel. H. Author: Sapper Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 29:32 - Chapter 2 01:01:07 - Chapter 3 01:45:38 - Chapter 4 02:29:59 - Chapter 5 03:11:46 - Chapter 6 03:47:42 - Chapter 7 04:26:22 - Chapter 8 05:16:21 - Chapter 9 05:52:46 - Chapter 10 06...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also invented two immortal turn-of-the-century detectives in The Old Man in the Corner and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Author:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com "Sometimes in the course of his experience, a detective, while engaged in ferreting out the mystery of one crime, runs inadvertently upon the clue to another. But rarely has this been done in a manner more unexpected or with attendant circumstances of greater interest than in the instance I am now about to relate. Author: Anna Katharine Green Length: 1...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquaintance of the deceased or criminal or in the course of their professional duties. This work provides a personal look at some of the most sensational crimes and scandals of late 19th and early 20th century Britain. Au...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Three trees, known as the Peacock trees, are blamed by the peasants for the fever that has killed many. Squire Vane scoffs at this legend as superstition. Author: G. K. Chesterton Length: 2 hours 15 minutes Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction, Short Stories Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 33:48 - Chapter 2 01:06:38 - Chapter 3 01:41:15 - Chapter 4 #FullAudio...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks. Author: Wadsworth Camp Length: 9 hours 10 minutes Genre: General Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 38:16 - Chapter 2 59:21 - Chapter 3 01:23:13 - Chapter 4 01:57:16 - Chapter 5 02:15:20 - Chapte...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Author: Arthur B. Reeve Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03:38 - Chapter 2 42:43 - Chapter 3 01:26:11 - Chapter 4 02:07:57 - Chapter 5 02:47:27 - Chapter 6 03:37:18 - Chapter 7 04:20:43 - C...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Length: 11 hours 14 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, General Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 57:54 - Chapter 2 01:57:54 - Chapter 3 02:43:11 - Chapter 4 03:46:09 - Chapter 5 04:32:59...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, equally cunning and smart, smells something fishy. Author: R. Austin Freeman Length: 8 hours 28 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 03:01 - Chapter 2 26:10 - Chapter 3 48:21 - Chapter 4 01:13:...

https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A shot rings out in the middle of the night in a quiet Chicago neighborhood. Patrolman Murphy is directed to an apartment where a man says the shot came from. Author: Paul Thorne Length: 4 hours 40 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 13:31 - Chapter 2 21:02 - Chapter 3 32:05 - Chapter 4 42:17 - Chapter 5 53:23 - Chapter 6 01:08:...