Over 40 hours of classic and pioneering detective stories

Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 40hrs 58mins)

Featuring poems by Algernon Blackwood, A M Burrage, G K Chesterton, E M Delafield, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle & many more

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.

Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.

In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a range and depth to the whole culture of criminality as we send in the Long Arm of the Law to bring justice on behalf of the society it serves.

01 - The Detective - The Complete Edition - An Introduction

02 - Private Water by A J Alan

03 - The Mystery of Chenholt by Alice and Claude Askew

04 - The Murder in an Omnibus by Harold Begbie

05 - The Message on the Sun-Dial by J J Bell

06 - John Silence, Physican Extraordinary by Algernon Blackwood

07 - How He Cut His Stick by M McDonell Bodkin Q C

08 - The Coin of Dionysius by Ernest Bramah

09 - The Pit in the Garden by A M Burrage

10 - The Secret Cell - Part 1 by William E Burton

11 - The Secret Cell - Part 2 by William E Burton

12 - The Honour of Israel Gow by G K Chesterton

13 - A Medical Crime by J Storer Clouston

14 - Before Insulin by J J Connington

15 - A Broken Trust by Elizabeth Corbett

16 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

17 - They Don't Wear Labels by E M Delafield

18 - Hunted Down by Charles Dickens

19 - The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle

20 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery

21 - The Blue Monkey by Frank Howel Evans

22 - The Man Who Shot At Cats by J Jefferson Farjeon

23 - The White Line by John Ferguson

24 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writing as Dion Fortune

25 - The Leak by Jacques Futrelle

26 - The Missing Model by Lettice Galbraith

27 - The Juryman by John Galsworthy

28 - Strychnine for Village Dogs by Arthur Gask

29 - Problem IX. Violet's Own by Anna Katharine Green

30 - Five Hundred Carats by George Griffiths

31 - The Riddle of the Lilac Room by Thomas W Hanshew

32 - The Adventures of Lady Pearl-Broker by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

33 - The Sapient Monkey by Headon Hill

34 - Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - No 1 - The Gateway of the Monster by William Hope Hodgson

35 - The Criminologists' Club by E W Hornung

36 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

37 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling

38 - Green Tea - Part 1 by Sheridan Le Fanu

39 - Green Tea - Part 2 by Sheridan Le Fanu

40 - The Arrest of Arsene Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc

41 - The Horror at Red Hook by H P Lovecraft

42 - Conscience by Richard Marsh

43 - The Outside Ledge. A Cablegram Mystery by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

44 - The Case of Mr Foggatt by Arthur Morrison

45 - The Invisible Weapon by Nicholas Olde

46 - Jezebel of Valley Farm by E Philips Oppenhein

47 - The Murder In Saltashe Woods by Baroness Orczy

48 - The Ripening Rubies by Max Pemberton

49 - A Princess's Vengeance by Catherine Louisa Pirkis

50 - Parlour Tricks by Ralph Plummer

51 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

52 - The Murders in the Rue Morgue - Part 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

53 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

54 - The House of Black Evil by Eric Purves

55 - The Black Hand by Arthur B Reeve

56 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

57 - The Stir Outside the Cafe Royal by Clarence Rook

58 - The Haverstock Hill Murder by George R Sims

59 - The Case of Roger Carboyne by H Greenhaugh Smith

60 - Death At 8.30 by Christopher St John Sprigg

61 - A Thing That Glistened by Frank R Stockton

62 - Madame Ville D'Aubier by Josephine Tey

63 - The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain

64 - The Story of the Green House, Wallington by Allen Upward

65 - Richard Bruce - Burglar by Edgar Wallace

66 - Cheese - Bait For The Beast by Ethel Lina White

67 - The Tragedy On the London and Mid-Northern by Victor L Whitechurch

68 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 1 by Oscar Wilde

69 - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Part 2 by Oscar Wilde

70 - The Boat Race by David Winser

71 - Inquest by Leonara Wodehouse

72 - A Busman's Holiday by Francis Brett Young