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• In the Wind (read by the author in its entirety; c2008), by Barbara Fister (MP3 files with commentary at gac.edu)
• Visa to Death (new edition of The Best That Ever Did It; New York: Permabooks, 1956), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Best That Ever Did It (New York: Harper and Bros., 1955), by Ed Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The House With the Blue Door (c1942), by Hulbert Footner (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Who Killed the Husband? (c1941), by Hulbert Footner (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Death of a Celebrity (c1938), by Hulbert Footner (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Murder in Texas (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by Ada E. Lingo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sister Simon's Murder Case (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., 1959), by Margaret Ann Hubbard (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Tick of the Clock (New York: Macy-Masins, 1928), by Herbert Asbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bicycle Shop Murder, by Robert Burton Robinson (HTML at robertburtonrobinson.com)
• The Circular Staircase (New York: Review of Reviews Co., c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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• The Circular Staircase (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1908), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Lester Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Diamond Cross Mystery: Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story (Cleveland and New York: Press of the Commercial Bookbinding Co., 1918), by Chester K. Steele (Gutenberg text)
• The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Groote Park Murder (Toronto: T. Allen, c1923), by Freeman Wills Crofts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Jew Detective: or, The Beautiful Convict (Beadle's New York Dime Library #662; New York: Beadle and Adams, 1891), by Prentiss Ingraham (mlutiple formats at niu.edu)
• The Lerouge Affair (v3 in a set of Gaboriau's novels; New York: W. R. Caldwell and Co., c1908), by Emile Gaboriau, illust. by John A. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lerouge Case, by Emile Gaboriau (Gutenberg text)
• The Man in the Brown Suit (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)
• The Mansion of Mystery: Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-Book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective (Cleveland and New York: Press of the Commercial Bookbinding Co., 1911), by Chester K. Steele (Gutenberg text)
• The Running Fight (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1910), by William Hamilton Osborne, illust. by Harrison Fisher and George Brehm
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• The Secret of Lonesome Cove (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1912), by Samuel Hopkins Adams, illust. by Frank E. Schoonover (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The World's Finger: An Improbable Story (London et al.: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1901), by Thomas W. Hanshew
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only?
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• Give 'em the Ax (published under "A. A. Fair" pseudonym; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1944), by Erle Stanley Gardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Big Four (New York: Dell Pub. Co., 1972), by Agatha Christie (Gutenberg text)
• The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1938), by S. S. Van Dine (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Purple Parrot: A Theocritus Lucius Westborough Story (Garden City, NY, Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1937), by Clyde B. Clason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Scarab Murder Case (1929-1930), by S. S. Van Dine (HTML in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Greene Murder Case (c1928), by S. S. Van Dine, illust. by Lowell Leroy Balcolm (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The "Canary" Murder Case (c1927), by S. S. Van Dine (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Benson Murder Case (1926), by S. S. Van Dine, illust. by Herbert Morton Stoops (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1926), by Agatha Christie
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• The Adventuress: A Craig Kennedy Detective Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1917), by Arthur B. Reeve, illust. by Will Foster
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• At the Villa Rose, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg text)
• The Bishop Murder Case (1928/9), by S. S. Van Dine (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Notting Hill Mystery (as published in "Once a Week", 1862-1863), by Charles Felix, illust. by George Du Maurier (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Album (c1933), by Mary Roberts Rinehart (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Mouse in the Mountain (originally published 1943), by Norbert Davis (HTML with commentary at manybooks.net)
• The law and the lady. A novel. (Harper & Brothers, 1875), by Wilkie Collins and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hornet's nest (Little, Brown, and Company, 1917), by Wilson Woodrow, Paul Stahr, and Brown and Company Little (page images at HathiTrust)
• The circular study (McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900), by Anna Katharine Green and Virginia Ernst Kilgour (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Chapman & Hall ;, 1901), by Charles Dickens and Hablot Knight Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost man's lane : a second episode in the life of Amelia Butterworth (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1898), by Anna Katharine Green and Knickerbocker Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corrector of destinies. (Edward J. Clode, 1908), by Melville Davisson Post and Edward J. Clode (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fire-Tongue (McKinley, Stone & Mackenzie, 1922), by Sax Rohmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A scheme for millions (Broadway Publishing Company, 1905), by Patrick H. Waters and Broadway Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• An amateur performance (Broadway Publishing Company, 1909), by Elmer Evinson and Broadway Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shadowed by a detective. (J.S. Ogilvie, Publisher, 1885), by Virginia Champlin and René de Pont-Jest (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder on the downbeat (Mystery House, 1943), by Robert Avery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six gun stampede. (The Dodge Publishing Company, 1937), by Jackson Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alias the dead (Alfred A. Knopf, 1943), by George Harmon Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• ...Five for bridge. (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1940), by Ernest Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death in a lighthouse (Phoenix, 1938), by Edward S. Aarons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The red house mystery (Pocket Books, 1940), by A. A. Milne, Allen Pope, and Pocket Books (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death of a lucky lady (Pub. for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940), by Virginia Rath, Country Life Press, and Doran & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cat screams (Popular Library, 1945), by Todd Downing, H. Lawrence Hoffman, and N.Y.) Popular Library (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabin in the pines. (Penn, 1935), by Gertrude Pahlow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sportsman-detective (E.J. Clode, 1930), by Mansfield Scott and Edward J. Clode (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Murder comes home (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1933., 1933), by Nellise Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secret of chimneys. (Bodley Head, 1925), by Agatha Christie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Draycott murder mystery, by Molly Thynne (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Bishop murder case, by S. S. Van Dine (Gutenberg ebook)
• The shadow on the spark, by Edward S. Sears, illust. by J. M. de Aragon (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sturgis wager : A detective story, by Edgar Morette (Gutenberg ebook)
• The moving finger, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mystery of the inn by the shore : A novel, by Florence Warden, illust. by Charles Kendrick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The shooting party, by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, trans. by A. E. Chamot (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Brooklyn murders, by G. D. H. Cole (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tracks in the snow : Being the history of a crime, by Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Splashes of red, by J. Frank Davis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The three strings, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The crooked cross, by Charles J. Dutton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ashes to ashes, by Isabel Ostrander (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mystery at Lynden Sands, by J. J. Connington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Annihilation, by Isabel Ostrander (Gutenberg ebook)
• The murders in Praed Street, by John Rhode (Gutenberg ebook)
• The case with nine solutions, by J. J. Connington (Gutenberg ebook)
• The curse of the Reckaviles, by Walter S. Masterman (Gutenberg ebook)
• The viaduct murder, by Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (Gutenberg ebook)
• The rasp, by Philip MacDonald (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ponson case, by Freeman Wills Crofts (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Akkra case, by Miriam Allen De Ford, illust. by Dan Adkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• A tragedy of love and hate : or, a woman's vow, by Bertha M. Clay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Earth transit, by Charles L. Fontenay, illust. by Richard Kluga (Gutenberg ebook)
• The horror expert, by Frank Belknap Long, illust. by Robert Schulz (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Dalehouse murder, by Francis Everton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The gamblers, by William Le Queux (Gutenberg ebook)
• The riddle of the rangeland, by Forbes Parkhill (Gutenberg ebook)
• The wrong letter, by Walter S. Masterman, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The clue of the new pin, by Edgar Wallace (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Terriford mystery, by Marie Belloc Lowndes (Gutenberg ebook)
• The duplicate death, by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, illust. by Hermann Heyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• The club of masks, by Allen Upward (Gutenberg ebook)
• The leading lady, by Geraldine Bonner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The silver blade: The true chronicle of a double mystery, by Charles Edmonds Walk, illust. by A. B. Wenzell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Trevor case, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The gray brotherhood, by Henry Leverage (Gutenberg ebook)
• The nameless man, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, illust. by Harry Russell Ballinger (Gutenberg ebook)
• The unseen ear, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln (Gutenberg ebook)
• The skeleton key, by Bernard Capes, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Redlaw, the half-breed; or, The tangled trail. A tale of the settlements, by Jos. E. Badger (Gutenberg ebook)
• The step on the stair, by Anna Katharine Green (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Clevedon Case, by Nancy Oakley and John Oakley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Thirteenth Letter, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln (Gutenberg ebook)
• The North Shore Mystery, by Henry Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)
• The House of the Arrow, by A. E. W. Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• Grist, by Murray Leinster (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lynne Courtin salaisuus (in Finnish), by J. S. Fletcher, trans. by Alpo Kupiainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Lodge: A Mystery of Campden Hill, by Victor Bridges (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kadonnut mies (in Finnish), by J. S. Fletcher, trans. by Alpo Kupiainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Shadow in the House, by Sinclair Gluck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mazaroffin murhajuttu (in Finnish), by J. S. Fletcher, trans. by Alpo Kupiainen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dalrymple's Equation, by Paul W. Fairman, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mystery at Mesa Flat, by Ivar Jorgensen, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Välkehtivä Rubiini (in Finnish), by J. S. Fletcher, trans. by Jussi Tervaskanto (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cat's Paw, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, illust. by William Fisher (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Point of Testimony, by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg ebook)
• Silver Rifle, the Girl Trailer; Or, The White Tigers of Lake Superior, by T. C. Harbaugh (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Son of Ishmael: A Novel, by L. T. Meade, illust. by A. B. Shute (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under the Tiger's Claws; Or, A Struggle for the Right, by Nicholas Carter (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Twin Mystery; Or, A Dashing Rescue, by Nicholas Carter (Gutenberg ebook)
• Under Three Flags: A Story of Mystery, by Bert Leston Taylor and Alvin T. Thoits (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Star Beast, by Damon Knight, illust. by Herman B. Vestal (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Brides of Ool, by Monette Cummings, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Great Diamond Syndicate; Or, The Hardest Crew on Record, by Nicholas Carter (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Man Inside, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Charing Cross Mystery, by J. S. Fletcher (Gutenberg ebook)
• Witness, by George H. Smith, illust. by Kelly Freas (Gutenberg ebook)
• Faulkner's Folly, by Carolyn Wells (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Meredith Mystery, by Natalie Sumner Lincoln (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Dead Reckoning, by T. W. Speight (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Loudwater Tragedy, by T. W. Speight (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Secret of Wyvern Towers, by T. W. Speight (Gutenberg ebook)
• Spirits do return, by Ida Belle White, contrib. by Mark Twain (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Disappearing Eye, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Peacock of Jewels, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jonah's Luck, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Scarlet Bat: A Detective Story, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mikado Jewel, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Indian Bangle, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Pink Shop, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Purple Fern, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Queer Street, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Fever of Life, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Lady from Nowhere: A Detective Story, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spider, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sealed Message, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tracked by a Tattoo: A Mystery, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Turnpike House, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red Bicycle, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Clock Struck One, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• Monsieur Judas: A Paradox, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mandarin's Fan, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Silver Bullet, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• Miss Mephistopheles: A Novel: (Sequel to Madame Midas.), by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Red-headed Man, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Vanishing of Tera, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Rainbow Feather, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Black Patch, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mystery Queen, by Fergus Hume, illust. by Howard Somerville (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The White Room, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Yellow Holly, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hospital Murders, by Means Davis (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Third Volume, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mandarin's Fan, by Fergus Hume (Gutenberg ebook)

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