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Are you ready for a mystery? Get ready to unleash your inner sleuth. Every day Monday-Saturday, we feature a different detective audio drama from the Golden Age of Radio. Our current mystery-solving line-up of radio detectives includes The Adventures of the Falcon, Charlie Chan, Broadway's My Beat, Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and Dragnet.Whether you want to listen to a mystery before going to sleep or enjoy some drama while driving, or just feel nostalgia for old-school radio fiction, we have you covered with six audio dramas every week.Podcast Award finalist Host Adam Graham has been your ...

Ten guests travel to an island at the invitation of someone named U.N. Owen. All are strangers, but they have two things in common: they have all been responsible for someone's death, and none will leave the island alive. Over the next two days and nights, each of the guests is killed off in a...

An international cast of suspects, all passengers on the crowded train, are speeding through the snowy European landscape when a bizarre and terrible murder brings them to an abrupt halt. One of their glittering number lies dead in his cabin, stabbed a mysterious twelve times. There is no lack...

In the sleepy little English country village of St Mary Mead, all is not as it seems. Under a seemingly peaceful exterior lurks intrigue, guilt, deception - and murder. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner, is the most detested man in the village. Everyone, even the...

Listen to classic mystery audiobooks featuring detective stories, crime fiction, and suspense-filled investigations from the golden age of literature. This podcast delivers free public domain audiobooks from legendary authors, including gripping detective cases, hidden clues, and unforgettable characters. Explore timeless mystery stories filled with suspense, crime, and psychological intrigue. These classic audiobooks are carefully selected from public domain archives and professionally presented for an immersive listening experience. 🔒 Subscribe for free mystery audiobooks, classic ...

This is the story that made Agatha Christie famous, and which was also one of her own favourites. It begins when the wealthy Mrs Farrars is found dead of an apparent overdose, one year after the death of her husband. The villagers of King's Abbot are suspicious, for local rumour has it that...

Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, wrote a number of "great detective stories", which he claimed were "literally true". We may call this assertion into question, but they were doubtless based, however loosely, on his actual experiences. This volume brings together two of the stories, The Somnambulist and the Detective; and The Murderer and the Fortuneteller. - Summary by LynneT

Evil lurks in the hearts and minds of men and many nefarious schemes are hatched by these gangsters, mob bosses and super villains. But thankfully, equally brave, talented detectives (some of them hooded) are there to track them down and thwart their twisted plans. These six stories, along with two "true fact detective shorts" were in the magazine Hooded Detective, January 1942. Are they well written? well, no, but they are fun. Here are a few of the blurbs: "They had expected spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner, but were served instead, hot lead, with a little bit of blood on the side...." (...

Lady Tresselian invites several guests to stay at her seaside house at Gull’s Point. Against her better judgment she has allowed her late husband’s ward, handsome tennis ace Neville Strange, and his wife Kay to come at the same time as Neville’s ex-wife Audrey. Other guests include Mary...

The gruesome death of Mrs McGinty provokes Superintendent Spence to seek the help of his old ally Hercule Poirot. The victim's young lodger has been found guilty and is due to hang. But Spence is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence which influenced the verdict. So, at considerable...

Stephen Gray is a recent graduate of medicine. As he is walking through a sleepy English village he stumbles upon a tragedy involving a beautiful young girl and immediately becomes involved in assisting her. In doing so he enlists the help of his mentor, Dr. Thorndyke, a renowned forensic investigator. Thorndyke and his aide, Polton, use their skills to unravel a bizarre mystery with many intriguing twists and turns. (Summary by Howard Skyman)

Here we have another in the series of novels written by R. Austin Freeman featuring the character of Dr. John Thorndyke. The good doctor is a savvy experienced investigator who combines his detective, scientific and medical skills to hunt down the perpetrators of heinous crimes against humanity. In this instance the love triangle between Mr. Purcell, his wife Maggie Purcell, and Daniel’s business associate and long time partner Mr. Varney creates tensions that spill over to violent actions. Dr. Thorndyke must piece together the relevant clues that will eventually lead him to a satisfactory ...

The story opens conventionally with a murdered man found on the floor of his library in Washington D.C. As the plot unfolds several possible assailants are discovered. There are the dead man’s fiancée and housekeeper, and her hunchback son, his niece whose father needs money and her shell shocked brother; and of these may be responsible. Or even the lawyer who when summoned by the victim’s niece drove to the scene of the crime in one blue car and drove away in another that later furnished a clue. All of these innocent people are more or less guilty, and one unsuspected person thoroughly ...

A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody stump where his head should have been bowed forward and resting on the floor. The head lay propped up facing toward the door several feet away. No one was seen entering or leaving the room between when M. de Saligny entered the room and when the body was discovered. Will shrewd detective Bencolin be able to solve the first whodunnit penned by the master of the locked room mystery, John Dickson Carr? (Summary by Ben Tucker)

One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux's criminal mastermind Chéri-Bibi. When the story starts the "astonishing bandit", Chéri-Bibi, is languishing in a penal colony, somewhere in the darkest regions of the French empire. In the colony he has befriended a more noble type of prisoner, Raoul de Saint-Dalmas, known colloquially as the Nut. The dastardly forces of the Parisian, the Burglar, the Joker and the Caid get their enjoyment from interfering in our heroes' lives. Then there are the Chief and his warders, Pernambouc the Executioner and his assistant Monsieur ...

A classic English murder mystery story, set in the legal center of London draws the reluctant attention of a journalist as he makes his way home after a long night on the job. But his newshound instincts kick in. Who is the elderly man? What was he doing at the law chambers in the middle of the night? Why had someone seen fit to strike him on the back of the head? As this convoluted tale weaves its way from London to Cornwall to Yorkshire and back to London, it will keep you guessing until the end.

Lord Peter Wimsey is back for the second installment of Dorothy L. Sayers’s mystery series (published 1927), and this time a death threatens the core of his family. Will he be able to save his brother, the Duke of Denver? Exactly what kind of trouble has his sister landed in? And what misadventure will Lord Peter get himself and Bunter into this time? - Summary by Lynette Caulkins Cast: Narrator: Ciufi Galeazzi Lord Peter Wimsey: Thomas Copeland Bunter and Mr. Hardraw: James Hedrick Inspector Charles Parker: David Purdy Duke of Denver: Yoganandh Duchess of Denver: Jenn Broda Lady Mary: ...

A disreputable lawyer is discovered dead by poisoning during the performance of a play in New York City. Not only that, despite being sold out, the body is surrounded by empty seats. Plus his top hat is missing. Inspector Richard Queen of the Homicide Squad is called-in to solve the case, along with his mystery writer son, Ellery. First in the Ellery Queen mystery novel series. - Summary by The Narrator

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. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles Parker, who figures more or less prominently in later Wimsey novels, plays a central role in Whose Body? as well. As the book opens, a bashful Battersea architect has discovered a naked body in his bath, adorned with a gold pince nez. At the same time, we learn of the disappearance – under odd circumstances – of Sir Reuben Levy, a powerful financial magnate in The City. Not accepting the ...

The White Alley is the sixth installment in Carolyn Well's famous detective series featuring Fleming Stone. The story begins during a weekend house party at White Birches, the imposing family estate of millionaire Justin Arnold. Despite the mansion's state-of-the-art security Arnold disappears during the event. As amateur sleuths delve into the mystery the secrets and potential motives of the victim's family members and guests come to light and contribute to the twists and turns of the plot. As the missing-person case escalates into a full-blown mystery Fleming Stone known for his sharp and ...