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A corpse washes up on a New England beach, handcuffed to a raft. The whole town seems to want desperately to cover up everything and bury the body as fast as possible without even bothering to identify it. Our hero, Chester Kent, is determined to get to the bottom of all this... Nothing is as it seems in this completely engrossing mystery yarn that plays out like walking inside a labyrinth! The listener comes up against constant dead-ends during the tale's unfolding, right up to the surprising and satisfying resolution.

Our hero, a Royal Canadian Police Officer stumbles upon mystery, love and adventure during his chase after a giant madman and killer, moving across the snowy wilderness with wolves for sled dogs! This is for pure and unadulterated lovers of rugged action and adventure, with a nice side order of romance.

This story by James Oliver Curwood, published in 1913, possesses all of the great elements that make up a good adventure yarn! Old fashioned sense of nobility, falling in love, losing love, suspense, tragedies and ultimate happiness regained as the listener gets entangled in the story - full of twists and turns - of a Sergeant of the Canadian Northwest Mounted and his partner; chasing an elusive killer and his wife through a wintry and harsh world.

A story which is both a horror and a New England time period piece by Eleanor M. Ingram. Roger Locke, a composer, buys a farm by a lake in Connecticut, to use as a country retreat... When he meets a mysterious woman at night, he starts getting haunted by a dark force from the lake that claims to own the woman. Does the mysterious lady want to help or to harm? Superb atmosphere and suspense.

Ever notice sounds? I mean really notice them? I do. I don't have any choice, not since I fell into The Loop. And what's The Loop? It's a world - a world of sounds and narration, of incidental music and special effects. The Loop is ambiance, implication, and the subtle - and not-so-subtle - manipulations of the Off-Mike People. But people are the same on or off The Loop, a distressing fact that always seems to add up to Blues for Johnny Raven.

A gloriously touching romance by Captain Charles de Créspigny, with a nicely nuanced and observed central character that grows to a noble soul. This character, a soldier of WWI; wakes up from injury only to gradually discover through his damaged memory (partly) that his day-bride has remarried (believing him to be dead)... The soldier decides to re-invent himself and his life completely from scratch - this proves to be a tall order indeed.

A nautical mystery by Francis Marion Crawford unfolds for the listener, raising more puzzling questions than immediate answers: a boat crew find themselves minus one crew member (supposedly a twin brother) after a storm. But was it really the twin brother that went overboard? In that case, why is his presence felt so strongly? What actually happened during the fateful night? Who is it that is actually missing?

A story of ultimate redemption and finding of love for our "hero", the alcoholic gambler and Yukon gold finder Carter Brent. He strikes real gold as he comes upon a beautiful young half-breed girl called Snowdrift. The two experience adventures and adversity of all sorts, both physical and psychological. They find solace and strength in each other. By James B. Hendryx, published in 1923. James B. Hendryx (1880-1963), was an extremely prolific American writer of mostly adventure fiction, with Canada and Alaska as favorite settings.

A deceptively simple, but in fact timeless, universal and profound story by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews about a young man making personal amends for having disappointed everyone around him, from family to school - and, perhaps most importantly, himself. It moves us and makes us think with the simplicity, charm and clarity of an old, fable-like tale.

Helen Hardwick, our heroine, is the sole witness to a part of a very mysterious murder, happening during a performance of a play she has herself written. There are not many clues, mostly just disturbing details, such as a chilling laughter that she keeps hearing... Could the mysterious and dangerous figure of the Grey Phantom be involved in this in any way, good or bad?

This is a gently self-deprecating, ironic and often warmly, sadly humorous tale by Roswell Field of a widower's last shot at happiness in love... It is narrated in the first person, that being John, a well to do and preserved (according to himself) reasonably well-preserved middle-aged widower. John falls for a much younger person - a person, while delightful, not entirely unproblematic: she is the orphaned daughter of his very first love.

Meet Edgar Braine, our accomplished main character, is the editor of a local newspaper and a politician. A diligent and centered man, having followed his old mother's advice on leading a good, ethical life; he now faces a bit of a dilemma where a caveat, a warning from his mother, might come in very handy, possibly saving him from a personal disaster.

A great, classic combination of action, love, atmosphere and personal dilemmas of the characters make this Western something to really enjoy. The story involves three main protagonist, two men and a woman; who get in to something of a triangle drama of the heart and the conscience. Set mainly in the remote harshness of Canada and the lumberjack community. Ridgwell Cullum, pseudonym of Sidney Groves Burghard, (1867-1943) was a British writer of many adventure novels often set in sparsely populated regions of the USA or Canada.

Welcome to the dangerous and rugged world of the breathtakingly majestic landscape of western Canada! Our main character, Jimmy, doesn't know whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he was hunting with his friends. What follows is a well-told tale by Harold Bindloss of escape and survival of our protagonist, in an unfamiliar and particularly challenging and unforgiving environment.

The listener is introduced to the detective Quentin Locke (based on Houdini), who investigates a cartel protected by a robot called the Automaton and the members of which use a gaseous weapon called Madagascar madness!! The hero is capable of getting himself freed of some of the strangest and most dangerous situations... This is a humorous, fast paced, high octane pulpy adventure by Arthur Benjamin Reeve for diehard fans of the genre!

This story by Alice Muriel Williamson has its feet firmly planted in a mix of genres, and manages to thrill and entertain in equal measure. A woman in distress, a handsome hero, a dangerous villain, physical action, psychological suspense and real scares all cohabit in this classic tale with quite a bit of a gothic feel to it: "Never, it seemed to me, had I seen a habitation so grim, so silently suggestive of haunting, evil things... The wind moaned through the trees like the wail of a lost soul."

The listener gets transported into a world filled with action, travel, betrayal and greed. The story is complicated and multifaceted involving a journey across the sea, different countries and a potential revolution; but the core of it is of our hero rescuing his girl and trying to find the famous treasure of Eldorado. Extract: "Old man," he said with a new ring in his voice, "you must follow me the rest of this journey. I've got down to one thing now - just one thing."

This tale by Henry Oyen is as rugged as it gets. Welcome to the world of the "Reivers", also known as "Snow-Burners", the Native Americans of the North. Our brutal and forceful "hero" gets assigned to run a work camp filled with foreigners. Will he attend to business in his usual alpha male ways, or could he possibly crack?

In this complicated romance, we follow the two main characters from their childhood through to adulthood, all the way experiencing all the many, many challenges and opposing forces to their union. The heroine of this piece, aptly named Conscience; is forced to take on a mighty giant - the puritanical values instilled by her father (a minister) and the society of the older generation - in order to thrive in life as well as in love.

An absorbing, thought-provoking but also marvelously entertaining Western novel by Katharine Newlin Burt. The audiobook manages to make the listener think and feel in equal measure! This is the story of a brave woman - Joan Carver - of modest means, struggling to make her own life, in a world dangerously dominated by all-male forces and desires and impulses.