Classic Audiobook Collection

Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen audiobook. Genre: mysteryOn a bitter December night, taxi driver Spike Walters is just trying to finish his shift in a city locked in sleet and cold. Then a veiled, well-dressed woman hails his cab at Union Station, gives a quiet address, and rides in silence. Minutes later, at the destination, Spike turns to collect his fare and finds the impossible: his passenger has vanished, a suitcase sits where she had been, and a dead man is slumped in the back seat. The victim, Roland Warren, is no nobody, and the suitcase seems to tie the missing woman to the murder in ways that make no sense at all. With the police closing in and Spike desperate to clear his name, the case lands in the hands of David Carroll, a detective whose patience, empathy, and sharp eye for human motives cut through the city's gossip and high-society veneers. As Carroll follows thin leads across boardinghouses, offices, and drawing rooms, every answer opens a new question, and the truth behind the midnight ride proves far more tangled than a simple robbery gone wrong.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:17:57) Chapter 02(00:36:53) Chapter 03(00:54:57) Chapter 04(01:11:14) Chapter 05(01:25:56) Chapter 06(01:40:27) Chapter 07(01:55:53) Chapter 08(02:11:53) Chapter 09(02:28:46) Chapter 10(02:45:20) Chapter 11(03:00:22) Chapter 12(03:20:25) Chapter 13(03:36:19) Chapter 14(03:55:12) Chapter 15(04:13:08) Chapter 16(04:32:20) Chapter 17(04:46:49) Chapter 18(05:05:55) Chapter 19(05:23:41) Chapter 20(05:44:30) Chapter 21(06:01:08) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Network of Crime by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen a frantic phone call reaches Nick Carter's Madison Avenue home, his junior assistant Patsy Garvan learns that Frank Mantell needs the famous detective at once: there is half a million dollars at stake, and time is running out. But Nick and his chief assistant, Chick Carter, are already on another urgent assignment - a brutal double murder in a quiet Manhattanville house that should have been empty. Inside, the evidence points to a savage struggle, a planned meeting gone wrong, and intruders who may have used a false rental to secure the perfect trap.As Patsy races to connect Mantell's desperate business with Nick's grisly crime scene, the case begins to widen beyond a single night of violence. A battered suitcase, a bloodstained slouch hat, and whispers of a man from Mexico hint at a far larger plot, where respectable fronts and waterfront dealings conceal a tangled web of thieves, gangsters, and high value loot. To untie the knot, Nick must trace each thread through New York's underworld, testing every alibi and every disguise - before the hidden network strikes again.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:11:22) Chapter 02(00:30:08) Chapter 03(00:44:41) Chapter 04(01:01:03) Chapter 05(01:18:18) Chapter 06(01:30:55) Chapter 07(01:38:51) Chapter 08(01:52:04) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook. Genre: folkloreSet among the granite peaks, deep notches, and sudden storms of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains gathers a haunting set of legends that blend New England landscape with moral wonder. The centerpiece tale follows Ernest, a humble village boy who grows to manhood beneath the shadow of the Great Stone Face, a vast natural profile carved into a mountain. A local prophecy claims that one day a person will appear whose life and character mirror that stern, noble visage, and Ernest watches the passing years as travelers, heroes, and celebrated figures come and go, each tested against the mountain's silent standard. Surrounding this story are additional mountain chronicles of peril, desire, and awe: guests drawn to lonely houses on tempest nights, seekers tempted by unearthly riches, and wanderers who discover that the wilderness can reflect the darkest corners of the heart. With vivid scenery and a quiet, fable-like voice, Hawthorne explores ambition, humility, community, and the uneasy line between nature's beauty and its power.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:28:49) Chapter 2(00:56:53) Chapter 3(01:20:31) Chapter 4(02:03:15) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiThere was no life on the asteroid, but the miles of rock-hewn corridors through which the earth party wandered left no doubt about the purpose of the asteroid. It was a mighty fortress, stocked with weapons of destruction beyond man's power to understand. And yet there was no life here, nor had there been for untold centuries. What race had built this stronghold? What unimaginable power were they defending against? Why was it abandoned? There was no answer, all was dead. But—not quite all. For in a room above the tomb-like fortress a powerful transmitter beamed its birdlike, fluting sounds toward earth. Near it, on a huge star-map of the universe, with light-years measured by inches, ten tiny red sparks were moving, crawling inexorably toward the center. Moving, at many times the speed of light, with the acquired mass of suns ... moving, on a course that would pass through the solar system. The unknown aliens would not even see our sun explode from the force of their passing, would not even notice the tiny speck called Earth as it died....For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:32:57) Chapter 02(01:13:50) Chapter 03(01:49:13) Chapter 04(02:17:11) Chapter 05(02:54:20) Chapter 06(03:31:31) Chapter 07(04:05:12) Chapter 08(04:50:28) Chapter 09(05:28:30) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Red Dust by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiYou who have read 'The Mad Planet' by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspire is as nothing compared to the deadly Red Dust. You will follow this remarkable story with breathless interest. 'Burl raised his spear, and plunged down on the back of the moving thing, thrusting his spear with all the force he could command. He had fallen upon the shining back of one of the huge, meat-eating beetles, and his spear had slid across the horny armor and then stuck fast, having pierced only the leathery tissue between the insect's head and thorax.'For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:34:10) Chapter 2(01:09:21) Chapter 3(01:41:37) Chapter 4(02:16:56) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiIt is 30,000 years following dramatically changed climate conditions on earth which had let massive amounts of carbon dioxide belch from the interior of the planet into the atmosphere. Over the millenia this would have quite devastating effects on life as it had once been known. Much of the human and animal population would not survive the climate change, and indeed those few humans who did survive knew nothing of all which their predecessors had learned and built. Indeed, they knew not even of their existence. On the other hand insects and fungi would flourish over time.And so those few remaining humans were unknowingly at the very beginning of the building of a tribal society, which at the time of the story of Burl simply meant food and survival. And so it was Burl who chose to travel beyond his small tribal community in an effort to hunt for something new and different to hopefully impress Saya, the young female of his tribe to whom he felt a peculiar attraction. The Mad Planet is Burl's adventure.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:42:45) Chapter 2(01:15:41) Chapter 3(02:05:43) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Machine that Saved the World by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiThey were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this? In the far future of 1972, on a secret military installation, Staff Sergeant Bellews is an expert on the latest scientific discovery: a way for ordinary machines like vacuums and lawnmowers to gather experience in their jobs, becoming error free over time. Then the strange broadcasts began to blow up transmitters everywhere. Were they from space? Enemies? the future? He didn't care until they started messin' with his machines. Then he took it personally. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:17:53) Chapter 2(00:35:49) Chapter 3(00:55:44) Chapter 4(01:15:07) Chapter 5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiLong ago, human seed-ships arrived at a barren world to begin a slow, deliberate experiment: first microbes, then plants and insects, and later, a final shipment of animals to complete a living ecosystem. But the last mission never came, and in the silence of millennia the planet's unchecked life runs wild, with fungi spreading like forests and insects swelling into monstrous proportions. When a space liner is wrecked on this half-made world, its survivors fight to endure amid wolf-sized ants, towering webs, and stinging things that rule the air. Generations later, the descendants of those castaways have fallen into a harsh, primitive existence where every day is a contest against hunger, predators, and the poisonous mysteries of the land itself. Burl, a young hunter with an unusual spark of curiosity, begins to notice patterns others ignore and dares to imagine that survival might mean more than hiding and running. As he struggles to lead his small tribe through shifting dangers and ancient leftovers from a lost past, the planet's original purpose and humanity's forgotten connection to it start to surface, raising one urgent question: can people reclaim their future on a world that seems designed to kill them?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:17:56) Chapter 01(00:52:39) Chapter 02(01:41:43) Chapter 03(02:21:31) Chapter 04(02:46:31) Chapter 05(03:28:46) Chapter 06(04:05:12) Chapter 07(04:30:09) Chapter 08(04:52:16) Chapter 09(05:14:59) Chapter 10(05:42:02) Chapter 11(06:07:54) Chapter 12(06:30:57) Chapter 13(06:54:23) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Deadly Dust by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiGeiger counters across the United States begin to spike, and a fine, drifting fall of dust turns out to be something far worse than dirt on the wind: invisible, spreading radioactivity. Dr. David Murfree, a quiet government scientist who recognizes the pattern too quickly for anyone's comfort, tries to sound the alarm - only to find that procedure, permissions, and office politics move slower than a contaminated weather front. Desperate, Murfree sets out to find the one person rumored to think faster than the system: Bug Gregory, a backwoods, self-taught genius with an uncanny knack for practical atomic know-how. As the lethal dust advances, the two follow clues that lead from official laboratories and skeptical superiors to unsettling reports from the open ocean, where a seemingly ordinary fishing boat tows a lead-sheathed mystery and leaves a trail of dead fish behind it. With time running out and proof hard to pin down, Murfree and Gregory must unravel what is creating the deadly fallout - and figure out how to stop it before a continent pays the price.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:35:48) Chapter 02(01:06:39) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifiIn a town where racketeer Big Jake Connors seems untouchable, Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald has learned to live with frustration. Witnesses clam up, judges get leaned on, and every honest cop knows the score: Connors takes over businesses by intimidation and bribery, and the law arrives just in time to pick up the pieces. Then something changes. After a small dry-cleaning shop refuses Connors' so-called protection, the usual pattern of threats and violence starts to misfire. Guns go off at the wrong moment, cars crash in unlikely ways, and would-be enforcers end up injured by accidents that feel less like chance and more like sabotage by the universe itself. Fitzgerald follows the trail to Brink, the calm new man behind the cleaners, who hints at a secret advantage: a strange psi device that can tilt probability and turn deliberate harm into humiliating mishaps. As Fitzgerald weighs duty against disbelief, he must decide whether to fight corruption with ordinary procedure or with an edge that no court would ever understand.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:17:25) Chapter 2(00:33:46) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices