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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 Jun 29, 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

Roman Collar Detective (Full Audiobook) | Grace Johnson Jun 29, 2026 15241 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A shot penetrates the still night air and one of Galton's leading citizens is a victim of a desperate killer's gun. Murder becomes entangled with politics and it takes a parish priest to discover "whodunit" in this thriller by a husband and wife novelist team. Author: Grace Johnson Length: 4 hours 14 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Ch
Red Thumb Mark (Full Audiobook) | R. Austin Freeman Jun 22, 2026 24956 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too. Author: R. Austin Freeman Length: 6 hours 55 minutes Genre: Classic Detective Mystery Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 12:37 - Chapter 2 35:19 - Chapter 3 01:00:36 - Chapter 4 01:21:32 - Chapter 5 01:43:30 - Chapter 6
Chestermarke Instinct (Full Audiobook) | J. S. Fletcher Jun 22, 2026 26455 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Bank manager John Hornbury is missing, as are securities and jewels from the bank's vault. Gabriel Chestermarke and his nephew Joseph have unaccountably refused to call in the police to investigate the theft from their bank. Author: J. S. Fletcher Length: 7 hours 20 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 15:09 - Chapter 2 29:10 - C
Missing: Page Thirteen (Full Audiobook) | Anna Katharine Green Jun 22, 2026 5618 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, a chemical scientist, a bride and groom, depend on the quick resolution of this problem. Author: Anna Katharine Green Length: 1 hours 33 minutes Genre: Classi
Double Barreled Detective Story (Full Audiobook) | Mark Twain Jun 22, 2026 7210 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A Double Barrelled Detective Story is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), in which Sherlock Holmes finds himself in the American west. At a mining camp in California, Fetlock Jones, a nephew of Sherlock Holmes, kills his master, a silver-miner, by blowing up his cabin. Author: Mark Twain Length: 2 hours 0 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 0
Whose Body? (Remastered) (Full Audiobook) | Dorothy L. Sayers Jun 20, 2026 25081 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com 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. Author: Dorothy L. Sayers Length: 6 hours 46 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 26:40 - Chapter 2 01:00:13 - Chapter 3 01:25:35 - Chapter 4 02:09:49 - Chapter 5 02:
Sorceress of the Strand (Full Audiobook) | Robert Eustace Jun 13, 2026 17987 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it soon becomes clear to both Dixon Druce and his friend, police surgeon Eric Vandeleur, that there is something sinister about the woman and the goings on at her shop on the Strand. Author: Robert Eustace Length: 4 hours
Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 (Full Audiobook) | Various Jun 12, 2026 39825 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of the thirteen stories adapted as episodes for the first season. Author: Various Length: 11 hours 3 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction, Short
Seven Secrets (Full Audiobook) | William Le Queux May 30, 2026 27927 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com A true "whodunit" with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Author: William Le Queux Length: 7 hours 45 minutes Genre: General Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 09:51 - Chapter 2 17:03 - Chapter 3 28:10 - Chapter 4 36:12 - Chapter 5 49:26 - Chapter 6 01:04:43 - Chapter
Mysterious Disappearance (Full Audiobook) | Louis Tracy May 27, 2026 32184 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lady Dyke disappears mysteriously, and barrister and hobby detective Claude Bruce appears to be one of the last persons to have seen her. A short time later a dead body is found in the river, and Bruce follows the trails. Author: Louis Tracy Length: 8 hours 56 minutes Genre: Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 18:52 - Chapter 2 38:30 - Chapter
Bulldog Drummond (Full Audiobook) | Sapper May 27, 2026 32164 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com 'Sapper', the pseudonym of Colonel. H. Author: Sapper Length: 8 hours 55 minutes Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction, Detective Fiction Chapters: 00:00 - Chapter 1 29:32 - Chapter 2 01:01:07 - Chapter 3 01:45:38 - Chapter 4 02:29:59 - Chapter 5 03:11:46 - Chapter 6 03:47:42 - Chapter 7 04:26:22 - Chapter 8 05:16:21 - Chapter 9 05:52:46 - Chapter 10 06
Lady Molly of Scotland Yard (Full Audiobook) | Baroness Emma Orczy May 23, 2026 28315 https://www.theforbiddenknowledgenetwork.com Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written by Baroness Orczy, who is best known as the creator of The Scarlet Pimpernel, but who also invented two immortal turn-of-the-century detectives in The Old Man in the Corner and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. Author:

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