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Mystery & Detective

Free illustrated audiobooks and picture books of Mystery & Detective books: Crime and Punishment, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Moonstone, The Phantom of the Opera, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Each one is retold in pictures and narrated page by page, with the original text free to read alongside.

Illustration from Crime and Punishment: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July, a young man named Raskolnikov rose from the sofa in his coffin-like garret. Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky RussianAges 16+ 151 pages · 45 min Illustration from The Hound of the Baskervilles: One morning at Baker Street, Watson picked up the walking-stick that a visitor had left behind the night before. The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 10+ 60 pages · 23 min Illustration from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: Mr. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson BritishAges 13+ 40 pages · 15 min Illustration from The Moonstone: I set down these lines in India for my relatives in England, on my word of honour. The Moonstone Wilkie Collins BritishAges 13+ 120 pages · 47 min Illustration from The Phantom of the Opera: Years after the tragedy, a writer searched the Opera's archives until he was certain the famous ghost had been a living man. The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux FrenchAges 13+ 81 pages · 31 min Illustration from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: To Sherlock Holmes she was always the woman. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 10+ 294 pages · 1 h 16 min Illustration from The Sign of the Four: In our rooms at Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes took his bottle and his neat morocco case from the corner of the mantelpiece. The Sign of the Four Arthur Conan Doyle BritishAges 13+ 120 pages · 44 min Illustration from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Not far from Tarry Town, where the Hudson widens into the broad Tappan Zee, there lay a little valley among high hills, one of the quietest places in the whole world. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving AmericanAll ages 32 pages · 9 min

About Mystery & Detective

Mystery and detective fiction asks a question and makes the reader wait for the answer: who did it, how, and why. This shelf holds some of the books that shaped the form, including Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, often called the first great English detective novel, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, which made the consulting detective of Baker Street the most famous in the world.

Not every book here is a puzzle. Crime and Punishment follows a murderer instead of a detective, Jekyll and Hyde hides its secret in plain sight, The Phantom of the Opera follows a hidden voice through the Paris Opera, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow leaves its mystery unsolved. Each is retold as an illustrated picture book with narration, with the original text free to read alongside.