Classic Audiobook Collection

The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryIn this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid out on the floor of his study. The only apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by the event, and a caged bird that sings out a vital but puzzling clue. Before he solves the crime, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must uncover a motive that spans generations and the passions that have kept it alive. Anna Katharine Green was a pioneering writer of detective fiction in the United States. Her first such novel, The Leavenworth Case, was published in 1878. She is credited with changing the genre by making her stories legally accurate. She invented the 'girl detective.' But her works remained popular because of their lively, twisting plots and the strong characters she developed.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:11:46) Chapter 02(00:29:17) Chapter 03(00:39:25) Chapter 04(00:54:47) Chapter 05(01:21:50) Chapter 06(01:49:32) Chapter 07(02:09:58) Chapter 08(02:30:36) Chapter 09(02:40:57) Chapter 10(03:07:38) Chapter 11(03:27:24) Chapter 12(03:35:40) Chapter 13(03:48:20) Chapter 14(03:54:33) Chapter 15(04:15:38) Chapter 16(04:30:15) Chapter 17(04:45:42) Chapter 18(05:08:11) Chapter 19(05:23:46) Chapter 20(05:32:47) Chapter 21(06:01:36) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryOn the evening before his wedding, well-to-do collector Sinclair shows off a strange and beautiful curiosity: an amethyst box concealing a minute vial of deadly poison. When the box vanishes soon after, the celebration curdles into panic. Sinclair turns to his closest friend and best man, Worthington, with a fear he can barely speak aloud: only two people had the chance to take it - Sinclair's bride-to-be, Gilbertine, or her cousin Dorothy, the very woman Worthington quietly loves. If the poison remains in the wrong hands, a life could be ended with a single drop; if Sinclair voices his suspicions, he risks ruining reputations and detonating a scandal on the threshold of marriage. Together the two men begin a tense, clandestine search through drawing rooms, corridors, and carefully guarded secrets, weighing every gesture and every half-heard remark for meaning. As the hours count down and trust frays, Green builds a classic mystery of motive and misdirection, where devotion, jealousy, and honor collide under the bright surface of society's rules.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:19:53) Chapter 2(00:40:24) Chapter 3(00:59:27) Chapter 4(01:10:25) Chapter 5(01:24:16) Chapter 6(01:44:18) Chapter 7(01:55:14) Chapter 8(02:23:12) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chief Legatee by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryOn the very day of her brilliant New York wedding, Georgian Hazen begins to act like a woman under sentence. Within hours of registering at a hotel with her new husband, Roger J. Ransom, the bride vanishes, leaving behind only bewildering clues and a reputation that society is eager to shred. Roger follows the trail to the rain-soaked countryside of Georgian's childhood, where her fierce, half-wild sister Anitra still haunts every memory - and where the roar of a nearby waterfall seems to call the desperate toward darkness. As a quiet investigation hardens into a race against scandal and time, lawyer Harper and a seasoned detective are drawn into a puzzle of locked doors, mistaken identities, and a past Georgian tried to bury. Then comes the shock that turns grief into suspicion: Georgian's will names an unknown man, Josiah Auchincloss, as chief legatee to the greater part of her fortune, while those closest to her are left with questions instead of comfort. In Anna Katharine Green's hands, love, money, and family secrets collide, and every new fact threatens to overturn what Roger believes he knows about the woman he married.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:19:10) Chapter 02(00:26:47) Chapter 03(00:40:59) Chapter 04(00:50:16) Chapter 05(01:09:57) Chapter 06(01:17:02) Chapter 07(01:28:33) Chapter 08(01:41:51) Chapter 09(01:56:00) Chapter 10(02:11:33) Chapter 11(02:18:33) Chapter 12(02:23:08) Chapter 13(02:34:36) Chapter 14(03:13:18) Chapter 15(03:31:40) Chapter 16(03:43:03) Chapter 17(03:55:37) Chapter 18(04:22:16) Chapter 19(04:40:17) Chapter 20(04:50:18) Chapter 21(05:10:25) Chapter 22(05:22:44) Chapter 23(05:28:14) Chapter 24(05:37:51) Chapter 25(05:51:08) Chapter 26(06:04:21) Chapter 27(06:12:52) Chapter 28(06:37:08) Chapter 29(06:54:03) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bronze Hand by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryIn anxious pre-Civil War Baltimore, young Abbott has time on his hands and an obsession he cannot explain: the striking, secretive woman who lodges in the room below his. When a thief snatches a ring from her hand as she closes her shutters, she turns to Abbott instead of the police, insisting the stolen trinket is far more dangerous than it looks. Her name is Miss Calhoun, and she binds him to silence before sending him into a shabby office building to keep watch over a locked box in Dr. Merriam's rooms. Inside lies the novel's unsettling emblem: a bronze hand displayed on a cushion, its fingers meant to bear rings of a peculiar make. If a certain ring is placed on a certain finger, Miss Calhoun fears an irreversible verdict will be set in motion. As Abbott navigates suspicious onlookers, cryptic warnings, and a shadowy network that seems to punish betrayal with death, his gallant impulse hardens into a moral test: how far can he go to help a woman in peril without becoming an instrument of the very evil he is trying to stop? citeturn2view0turn3view1For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 1(00:18:47) Chapter 2(00:37:17) Chapter 3(01:02:12) Chapter 4(01:17:35) Chapter 5(01:23:45) Chapter 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryIn a quiet New York neighborhood of well-kept brownstones and closely watched manners, a sudden gunshot shatters the calm and a young woman is found dead behind a locked door. With the police baffled by a case that seems to point everywhere and nowhere at once, the investigation turns to the people who knew the household best - the neighbors who heard fragments of voices through walls, noticed who came and went, and carried private grudges behind polite smiles. Enter Amelia Butterworth, an independent, sharp-eyed society woman whose sense of order is matched only by her curiosity. Refusing to be dismissed as an idle onlooker, Amelia begins collecting observations the professionals overlook, comparing alibis, testing assumptions, and pushing past the limits placed on her as a woman of her time. As suspicion spreads along the row and every parlor conversation becomes a clue, Amelia finds herself in a contest of wits with hidden motives, class expectations, and the dangerous consequences of prying into other people's secrets. Part mystery puzzle and part social portrait, the story builds through meticulous detail toward a truth that will not stay safely behind closed doors.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:35:17) Chapter 02(01:02:33) Chapter 03(01:24:37) Chapter 04(02:03:53) Chapter 05(02:39:35) Chapter 06(03:22:23) Chapter 07(04:07:29) Chapter 08(04:30:40) Chapter 09(04:59:45) Chapter 10(05:34:25) Chapter 11(06:10:40) Chapter 12(06:55:30) Chapter 13(07:14:00) Chapter 14(07:26:09) Chapter 15(08:05:11) Chapter 16(08:51:28) Chapter 17(09:15:06) Chapter 18(09:30:08) Chapter 19(09:49:07) Chapter 20(10:07:57) Chapter 21(10:36:03) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryOn a raw autumn evening in New York, young lawyer Arthur Outhwaite is stopped in the street by a terrified child who begs him to come at once to her grandfather. Inside the elegant Gillespie house, Arthur arrives just in time to witness a powerful man at the edge of death, and to receive a final, baffling charge: a sealed letter must be delivered to one person, and to that person only - but the dying man cannot name the recipient before the last breath is gone. Almost immediately, the household closes ranks, rumors ignite, and the death of wealthy stockbroker Archibald Gillespie becomes more than a family tragedy. When suspicion falls within the home itself and a father seems to have named his own killer, the case draws in the relentless detective Ebenezer Gryce and his keen associate Caleb Sweetwater. As Arthur tries to untangle his unwanted connection to the affair, the investigation moves from drawing-room silences to hard questions about loyalty, reputation, and what desperate people will do to keep the past buried. In Green's hands, every gesture and scrap of evidence becomes a potential key - or a carefully placed trap.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:26) Chapter 02(00:31:35) Chapter 03(00:48:30) Chapter 04(00:57:19) Chapter 05(01:16:10) Chapter 06(01:22:29) Chapter 07(01:47:53) Chapter 08(02:25:11) Chapter 09(02:37:21) Chapter 10(02:45:25) Chapter 11(02:49:16) Chapter 12(02:58:50) Chapter 13(03:27:00) Chapter 14(03:46:32) Chapter 15(03:57:56) Chapter 16(04:15:40) Chapter 17(04:45:58) Chapter 18(05:02:54) Chapter 19(05:11:19) Chapter 20(05:25:30) Chapter 21(05:42:57) Chapter 22(06:01:30) Chapter 23(06:27:43) Chapter 24(06:52:10) Chapter 25(07:03:33) Chapter 26(07:18:35) Chapter 27(07:34:33) Chapter 28(08:28:19) Chapter 29(08:39:45) Chapter 30(08:50:28) Chapter 31(09:03:41) Chapter 32(09:15:53) Chapter 33(09:28:35) Chapter 34(09:48:01) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missing - Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryThe story revolves around a brave, young and quite petite female detective known by the name of Violet Strange. As she is summoned to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from a very important document, her insight and deduction skills become essential to the lives of several individuals who add color and dimension to Green's story. They are the chemical scientist, the bride and groom and the eccentric misanthrope. Will the brilliant young detective be able to solve this unusual mystery, and what other unknowns will she be able to uncover during her investigations?This is one of the most enticing and thrilling stories Green has written. Nicknamed the mother of modern detective fiction, she carefully and intricately weaves every facet of the story into a whole fabric that unfolds quite brilliantly toward the end. Always one step ahead of us. Green opens up a world of mystery and deduction that very few other authors were able to create. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:27:59) Chapter 02(00:58:43) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lost Man’s Lane by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen a quiet upstate New York village gains a chilling nickname for a lonely stretch of road, the rumors are too persistent to ignore: over the years, men have simply vanished while walking alone along the same country lane. Veteran police inspector Ebenezer Gryce believes the pattern points to something darker than chance, but the case offers few solid leads and even fewer witnesses. Needing eyes and instincts outside official channels, he turns to Miss Amelia Butterworth, a sharp-minded society woman whose previous brush with crime-solving left her both wary and intrigued. Amelia seizes on a convenient pretext to investigate in person: a visit to the children of a late school friend, who live in a decaying house at the far end of the notorious lane. There, uneasy hospitality, stubbornly guarded family secrets, ominous sounds behind locked doors, and a cast of watchful neighbors tighten the atmosphere with Gothic dread. As another disappearance threatens to make the lane live up to its name, Amelia must balance propriety, courage, and cold logic to uncover what the village refuses to say aloud.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:07:01) Chapter 02(00:31:16) Chapter 03(00:55:43) Chapter 04(01:07:27) Chapter 05(01:20:47) Chapter 06(01:29:05) Chapter 07(01:42:38) Chapter 08(01:50:09) Chapter 09(02:06:44) Chapter 10(02:18:33) Chapter 11(02:40:32) Chapter 12(02:58:52) Chapter 13(03:08:59) Chapter 14(03:30:55) Chapter 15(03:41:33) Chapter 16(03:58:27) Chapter 17(04:19:24) Chapter 18(04:42:36) Chapter 19(04:54:47) Chapter 20(05:03:42) Chapter 21(05:15:44) Chapter 22(05:36:25) Chapter 23(05:56:17) Chapter 24(06:16:33) Chapter 25(06:25:07) Chapter 26(06:37:59) Chapter 27(06:44:16) Chapter 28(06:52:27) Chapter 29(07:02:14) Chapter 30(07:09:22) Chapter 31(07:29:20) Chapter 32(07:37:07) Chapter 33(08:12:14) Chapter 34(08:16:39) Chapter 35(08:29:17) Chapter 36(09:09:08) Chapter 37(09:18:03) Chapter 38(09:23:49) Chapter 39(09:49:42) Chapter 40(10:05:48) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryIn the quiet New York town of Sibley, a knot of lawyers and officials linger on the courthouse steps swapping theories about crime when a stranger offers a chilling observation: the boldest offenses are sometimes committed in full view, where no one thinks to look. Minutes later, the woman living in the plain house he indicated, the widowed Mrs. Clemmens, is found struck down in her own parlor, and the town is jolted into suspicion and fear. Young New York detective Horace Byrd takes the lead, sifting testimony, tracing timelines, and weighing the unsettling physical clues left behind, including a ring that seems to point in more than one direction. As whispers tighten around two equally plausible suspects, the enigmatic Imogene Dare steps into the center of the case, her past, her loyalties, and her very presence raising as many questions as they answer. When the famed detective Ebenezer Gryce becomes involved, the investigation turns into a contest between appearances and proof, unfolding through tense interviews, legal maneuvering, and extended courtroom scenes where every word can condemn or save.For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:26:45) Chapter 02(00:49:14) Chapter 03(01:19:46) Chapter 04(01:51:03) Chapter 05(02:20:24) Chapter 06(02:39:06) Chapter 07(03:12:34) Chapter 08(03:33:12) Chapter 09(04:01:48) Chapter 10(04:28:15) Chapter 11(04:38:22) Chapter 12(04:49:16) Chapter 13(05:13:22) Chapter 14(05:31:05) Chapter 15(05:40:57) Chapter 16(05:54:38) Chapter 17(05:55:41) Chapter 18(06:27:10) Chapter 19(06:47:49) Chapter 20(07:10:51) Chapter 21(07:20:36) Chapter 22(07:42:33) Chapter 23(08:02:31) Chapter 24(08:19:29) Chapter 25(08:29:46) Chapter 26(08:41:08) Chapter 27(08:43:45) Chapter 28(08:54:54) Chapter 29(09:13:58) Chapter 30(09:37:29) Chapter 31(09:48:48) Chapter 32(10:08:42) Chapter 33(10:31:29) Chapter 34(10:43:47) Chapter 35(11:15:48) Chapter 36(11:32:09) Chapter 37(11:59:48) Chapter 38(12:26:03) Chapter 39(12:48:52) Chapter 40(13:04:53) Chapter 41(13:23:06) Chapter 42(13:50:00) Chapter 43(14:13:50) Chapter 44(14:33:53) Chapter 45(14:54:50) Chapter 46(15:13:37) Chapter 47(15:35:41) Chapter 48(15:43:05) Chapter 49(16:02:59) Chapter 50(16:29:40) Chapter 51 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Izard by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mysteryBy a mysterious contrivance, penniless and parentless Polly Earle has become an heiress with $20,000. (A respectable little fortune in 1895, when DOCTOR IZARD was published). Raised by kind neighbors in a village in Massachusetts, Polly is now eighteen and a beauty.Her happiness seems assured. But there are ominous questions in the background. What made her father disappear so abruptly when Polly was four years old? Is there a mystery about her mother's death as well? Why does Polly's friend Doctor Izard avoid village society? And who is that sinister old tramp hanging around town, saying nothing and observing everything?For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:23:32) Chapter 02(00:31:17) Chapter 03(00:48:17) Chapter 04(01:16:41) Chapter 05(01:39:22) Chapter 06(01:44:08) Chapter 07(02:02:28) Chapter 08(02:15:05) Chapter 09(02:26:56) Chapter 10(02:37:02) Chapter 11(02:44:48) Chapter 12(02:50:28) Chapter 13(03:01:00) Chapter 14(03:22:13) Chapter 15(03:44:18) Chapter 16(04:04:34) Chapter 17(04:15:25) Chapter 18(04:24:01) Chapter 19(04:39:43) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices