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 bride's body is found in a secret room of the inn. Yet, many people saw that bride leave with her hu...
Dec 13, 2022•6 hr 44 min•Ep. 567
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 always escaped the hackneyed epithet of 'haunted,' families that have moved in have as quickly moved ...
Dec 12, 2022•12 hr 19 min•Ep. 566
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 has solved society's most delicate scandals before. This time, the trail leads next door to Dr. Zabri...
Dec 12, 2022•2 hr 19 min•Ep. 565
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 out on the floor of his study. The only apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by...
Dec 12, 2022•6 hr 28 min•Ep. 564
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 speak aloud: only two people had the chance to take it - Sinclair's bride-to-be, Gilbertine, or her cous...
Dec 06, 2022•2 hr 59 min•Ep. 563
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-soaked countryside of Georgian's childhood, where her fierce, half-wild sister Anitra still haunts eve...
Dec 06, 2022•7 hr 15 min•Ep. 562
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 dangerous than it looks. Her name is Miss Calhoun, and she binds him to silence before sending him into a sh...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 561
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 - the neighbors who heard fragments of voices through walls, noticed who came and went, and carried ...
Dec 05, 2022•11 hr 23 min•Ep. 560
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 be delivered to one person, and to that person only - but the dying man cannot name the recipient b...
Dec 05, 2022•10 hr 7 min•Ep. 559
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 Green's story. They are the chemical scientist, the bride and groom and the eccentric misanthrope. Wil...
Dec 05, 2022•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 558
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 case offers few solid leads and even fewer witnesses. Needing eyes and instincts outside official ch...
Dec 05, 2022•11 hr 1 min•Ep. 557
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 widowed Mrs. Clemmens, is found struck down in her own parlor, and the town is jolted into suspicion ...
Dec 05, 2022•16 hr 57 min•Ep. 556
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 background. What made her father disappear so abruptly when Polly was four years old? Is there a myste...
Dec 05, 2022•5 hr 14 min•Ep. 555
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 and later went on to write Show Boat, Giant and other well known books. First published in 1915...
Dec 01, 2022•4 hr 53 min•Ep. 554
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 adventure - a treasure hunt for the legendary loot of space pirate John Dark, rumored to lie entombed in a w...
Dec 01, 2022•2 hr•Ep. 553
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 townspeople must confront a future so remote that human history has become legend. As panic gives wa...
Dec 01, 2022•7 hr 20 min•Ep. 552
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 stronghold: the citadel of the Star Lords. To the scattered, struggling humans who remain, the Star L...
Dec 01, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 551
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 Carter. A shadowy conspiracy turns that meeting into scandal: Thuvia is abducted, Carthoris is framed, a...
Dec 01, 2022•5 hr 13 min•Ep. 550
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 reliable way to measure time. There, human tribes struggle to survive amid primeval beasts and brutal...
Nov 30, 2022•5 hr 57 min•Ep. 549
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 grappling with questions of identity, belonging, and rule. Across a series of episodic adventures, h...
Nov 30, 2022•7 hr 49 min•Ep. 548
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 clearly identify. Enter C. Auguste Dupin, an eccentric gentleman with an extraordinary talent for analysi...
Nov 30, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 547
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 does not understand - and a baffling responsibility: to look after a young boy he has been told to pr...
Nov 30, 2022•11 hr 12 min•Ep. 546
The Mystery of the Locks by E. W. Howe audiobook. Genre: mystery Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared-for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very curious about the stranger, and very curious about his reasons for buying the old house. The Locks had been known for years to display at nighttime a single light showing up in one room, and there was one room in the house...
Nov 30, 2022•10 hr 33 min•Ep. 545
The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle audiobook. Genre: scifi On a quiet afternoon in the English village of Great Wymering, a cricket match is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a stranger who moves in jerks, speaks in odd staccato bursts, and seems to hum with hidden machinery. The players laugh at him at first - until his uncanny speed and strength turn the farce into something harder to explain. Local doctor Allingham wants a sensible answer (escaped lunatic, hoax, anything but the impossible...
Nov 30, 2022•5 hr 3 min•Ep. 544
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. Oe. Somerville audiobook. Genre: comedy Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. follows the misadventures of Major Sinclair Yeates, an English ex-army officer who arrives in rural west Ireland to take up a post as a Resident Magistrate - a job that sounds orderly on paper but quickly becomes anything but. Thrown into a world of lively market towns, sprawling estates, and tight-knit communities where everyone seems to know everyone else (and where rules bend unde...
Nov 30, 2022•7 hr 29 min•Ep. 543
Wet Magic by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these delightful children from their earlier adventures with magic, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis. Just normal children who believe in the fun of imagining and of magic. In this story Francis, who has always loved the idea of the ...
Nov 30, 2022•6 hr•Ep. 542
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: scifi The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it a...
Nov 27, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 541
Howards End by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama In Edwardian England, a chance meeting at a concert draws together two very different families: the idealistic, intellectually restless Schlegel sisters and the wealthy, practical Wilcox clan. When Helen Schlegel strikes up a friendship with the Wilcoxes, misunderstandings quickly spiral into a tangle of letters, visits, and bruised pride. Her sister Margaret tries to make sense of the Wilcoxes' confident certainties while holding fast to her ...
Nov 27, 2022•12 hr 26 min•Ep. 540
Triplanetary - First in the Lensman series by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. He added 6 new chapters, doubling it in size and it's really a different book from the serialized novel, being published 14 years after the ...
Nov 23, 2022•10 hr 45 min•Ep. 539
The Vortex Blaster by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In E. E. 'Doc' Smith's classic space opera, brilliant nuclear engineer Neal 'Storm' Cloud lives in the shadow of failure: he flunked the Lensman exam, missing his chance to join Civilization's most celebrated defenders. But when lethal, self-sustaining atomic vortices begin to appear - churning knots of star-like energy that grow as they consume anything they touch - Cloud's rare gift for lightning-fast calculation becomes humanity's best...
Nov 23, 2022•59 min•Ep. 538
