The Ides of March
by E. W. Hornung
Tonight, for once, we are not on the side of the law. A desperate young man has lost more at the card table than he can possibly pay…
53 minNo. 128
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The Coin of Dionysius
by Ernest Bramah
Tonight the Archive opens on a detective unlike any other: a man who solves his cases entirely without sight. On a wet night, a struggling…
42 minNo. 126
The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step
by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
On Christmas Eve, £30,000 worth of jewellery vanishes from Craigen Court. Someone inside the great house unfastened a stained-glass…
1 hr 2 minNo. 124
The Queer Feet
by G. K. Chesterton
At the Vernon Hotel, twelve gentlemen sit down to the annual dinner of an absurdly exclusive club called The Twelve True Fishermen…
53 minNo. 122
The Man in the Inverness Cape
by Baroness Orczy
It begins with something the newspapers swore was impossible: a man who simply vanishes. On a foggy February afternoon, Mr. Leonard…
48 minNo. 120
Silver Blaze
by Arthur Conan Doyle
The most famous racehorse in England has vanished, and his trainer lies dead on the moor. Days before the Wessex Cup, Silver Blaze, the…
57 minNo. 118
The Woman in the Big Hat
by Baroness Orczy
On a busy afternoon in Regent Street, in a crowded Viennese tea-room loud with chattering women and clinking china, a young gentleman…
54 minNo. 116
The Musgrave Ritual
by Arthur Conan Doyle
For three hundred years an old English family has recited the same strange riddle, word for word, father to son — a catechism of questions…
50 minNo. 114
The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A governess named Violet Hunter comes to Baker Street with an offer she cannot understand. A wealthy, jovial gentleman wishes to hire her…
1 hr 5 minNo. 112
The Blue Cross
by G. K. Chesterton
Valentin, the most celebrated detective in Europe, has crossed to England on the trail of Flambeau — the giant, brilliant, and seemingly…
53 minNo. 110
The Ninescore Mystery
A sleepy Kentish village. A young woman found dead in the mud. A vanished sister. A country-house pond hiding a truth the police cannot…
47 minNo. 108
The Man with the Twisted Lip
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sent to fetch a friend from a riverside opium den, Dr. Watson stumbles instead upon Sherlock Holmes himself — in disguise, and deep in one…
1 hr 1 minNo. 105
The Second Bullet
by Anna Katharine Green
Content note: This 1915 mystery involves the death of a young child as part of its plot. It's presented unabridged and without graphic…
49 minNo. 103
Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late
by Maurice Leblanc
At the Château de Thibermesnil on the Normandy coast, a boastful banker entertains his dinner guests with two prized secrets: a…
58 minNo. 101
The Secret Garden
by G. K. Chesterton
Aristide Valentin, the most celebrated detective in Europe, throws a dinner party at his Paris mansion — a house whose garden is sealed on…
53 minNo. 99
The Stanway Cameo Mystery
by Arthur Morrison
The finest cameo in the world — a sardonyx of three colours carved in the first century and the size of a man's hand — is bought for five…
55 minNo. 95
The Grotto Spectre
by Anna Katharine Green
For the first time in her life Violet Strange takes a case not for money but for a face — across a crowded musicale she sees a young man…
59 minNo. 93
The Seven of Hearts
by Maurice Leblanc
A warning note slipped into a locked apartment, a metal playing card — the seven of hearts — pierced with seven small holes, and a…
1 hr 11 minNo. 90
The Golden Slipper
by Anna Katharine Green
By night Violet Strange glitters through New York's most exclusive ballrooms — a petite, fashionable debutante no one would ever take…
47 minNo. 88
The Red-Headed League
by Arthur Conan Doyle
A pawnbroker with flaming red hair answers a newspaper advertisement and finds himself hired by the mysterious Red-Headed League, paid…
1 hrNo. 86
A Scandal in Bohemia
by Arthur Conan Doyle
To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman — when a masked stranger calls at 221B Baker Street after dark claiming to be the agent of a…
58 minNo. 84
The Theft Committed
by Good Manners
Stockholm is a city where winter enforces discipline—and manners enforce silence. When Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…
45 minNo. 16
Miss Marple and the Holly Wreath Murder
Christmas Eve at Rutherford Hall should have meant candlelight, wreaths, and goodwill. Instead, it brings anonymous threats…
54 minNo. 11