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Classic Mystery Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Detective Stories

Classic Mystery Audiobooks: Free Public Domain Detective Stories

The Forbidden Audiobook Archive 42 episodes Nov 9, 2026

This podcast offers classic mystery audiobooks from the public domain, featuring detective stories, crime fiction, and suspense-filled investigations from the golden age of literature. It includes works by legendary authors, with gripping cases, hidden clues, and unforgettable characters. The recordings are sourced from LibriVox and narrated by volunteers, curated and distributed by Classic Mystery Audiobooks.

Episodes

🟑 Woman in White (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 3 of 3
🟑 Woman in White (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 3 of 3 Nov 9, 2026 8:31:38 Part 3 of 3.The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'....Author: Wilkie CollinsLength: 25 hours 34 minutesGenre: Epistolary Fiction, Detective FictionChapte
🟑 Woman in White (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 2 of 3
🟑 Woman in White (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 2 of 3 Nov 9, 2026 8:31:38 Part 2 of 3.The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'....Author: Wilkie CollinsLength: 25 hours 34 minutesGenre: Epistolary Fiction, Detective FictionChapte
🟑 Woman in White (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 1 of 3
🟑 Woman in White (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 1 of 3 Nov 9, 2026 8:31:38 Part 1 of 3.The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded as one of the first (and finest) in the genre of 'sensation novels'....Author: Wilkie CollinsLength: 25 hours 34 minutesGenre: Epistolary Fiction, Detective FictionChapte
🟑 Moonstone (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 3 of 3
🟑 Moonstone (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 3 of 3 Nov 6, 2026 6:43:05 Part 3 of 3.The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels.Author: Wilkie CollinsLength: 20 hours 8 minutesGenre: Detective FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 114:25 - Chapter 220:49 - Chapter 331:55 - Chapter 448:32 - Chapter
🟑 Moonstone (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 2 of 3
🟑 Moonstone (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 2 of 3 Nov 6, 2026 6:43:05 Part 2 of 3.The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels.Author: Wilkie CollinsLength: 20 hours 8 minutesGenre: Detective FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 114:25 - Chapter 220:49 - Chapter 331:55 - Chapter 448:32 - Chapter
🟑 Moonstone (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 1 of 3
🟑 Moonstone (Full Audiobook) | Wilkie Collins - Part 1 of 3 Nov 6, 2026 6:43:05 Part 1 of 3.The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday. The book is widely regarded as the precursor of the modern mystery and suspense novels.Author: Wilkie CollinsLength: 20 hours 8 minutesGenre: Detective FictionChapters:00:00 - Chapter 114:25 - Chapter 220:49 - Chapter 331:55 - Chapter 448:32 - Chapter
🟑 Extraordinary Adventures of Arsne Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (Full Audiobook) | Maurice Leblanc
🟑 Extraordinary Adventures of Arsne Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar (Full Audiobook) | Maurice Leblanc Nov 4, 2026 5:54:52 A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsne Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock Holmes in the English-speaking world. This is the delightful first of twenty volumes in the Arsne Lupin series written by Leblanc himself.Author: Maurice LeblancLength: 5 hours 54 minu
🟑 Spy (Full Audiobook) | James Fenimore Cooper - Part 2 of 2
🟑 Spy (Full Audiobook) | James Fenimore Cooper - Part 2 of 2 Nov 2, 2026 8:22:15 Part 2 of 2.James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, <em>The Spy</em> (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist who actually is a spy for George Washington, disguised as 'Mr Harper.Author: James Fenimore CooperLength: 16 hours 44 minutesGenre: Suspense, Espionage, P
🟑 Spy (Full Audiobook) | James Fenimore Cooper - Part 1 of 2
🟑 Spy (Full Audiobook) | James Fenimore Cooper - Part 1 of 2 Nov 2, 2026 8:22:15 Part 1 of 2.James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, <em>The Spy</em> (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the American Revolution. The protagonist is Harvey Birch, a supposed loyalist who actually is a spy for George Washington, disguised as 'Mr Harper.Author: James Fenimore CooperLength: 16 hours 44 minutesGenre: Suspense, Espionage, P
🟑 Secret Agent (Full Audiobook) | Joseph Conrad
🟑 Secret Agent (Full Audiobook) | Joseph Conrad Oct 30, 2026 9:53:14 <em>The Secret Agent</em> is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner, phony-anarchist and double-agent, who becomes embroiled in an ambitious terrorist plan to bomb the Greenwich Observatory.Author: Joseph Con
🟑 Stolen White Elephant (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain
🟑 Stolen White Elephant (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain Oct 28, 2026 38:57 In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end.Author: Mark TwainLength: 38 minutesGenre: Short Stories#FullAudiobook #ClassicAudiobook #ClassicLiterature #MysteryAudiobook #PublicDomain This audiobook recording is fr
🟑 Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Full Audiobook) | Washington Irving
🟑 Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Full Audiobook) | Washington Irving Oct 26, 2026 1:23:18 The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America's colonial period. The solitude of the woods was breathtaking, and not even a schoolmaster was immune from the eerie miasma which everyone knew permeated the dense forest.Author: Washington IrvingLength: 1 hours 23 minutesGenre: Fantastic Fiction, Detective Fiction#

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