Sheila’s Audiobooks
Will be recording both books and short stories you have heard ones you have never heard. According to US copyright law, every story on this recording is in the public domain.
Podcast Description
Will be recording both books and short stories you have heard ones you have never heard. According to US copyright law, every story on this recording is in the public domain.
Episodes

May 21, 2026
The Murder in the Brownstone House Part 3
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
1hr 26 min
Wilson Collison’s courtroom drama centered on a young lawyer's investigation of a killing in an urban setting. He must defend a man against a veteran prosecutor and this being his first murder trial.

May 21, 2026
The Murder in the Brownstone House Part 4
May 21, 2026
May 21, 2026
1hr 24 min
Wilson Collison’s courtroom drama centered on a young lawyer's investigation of a killing in an urban setting. He must defend a man against a veteran prosecutor and this being his first murder trial.

May 5, 2026
The Planet Savers
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
2hr 42 min
Desperate to discover a cure for the cyclical 48-year-fever, Dr. Randall Forth persuades a colleague, Dr. Jay Allison, to undergo hypnosis.

May 5, 2026
The Gatewood Caper
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
34 min
The story concerns the kidnapping of the daughter of a San Francisco industrialist, Harvey Gatewood. The Continental Operative and local police are brought in to try to get her back and catch the kidnappers.

May 5, 2026
The Green Elephant
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
22 min
Joe Shupe, a small-time crook who accidentally finds himself in possession of a massive fortune—$250,000—after a robbery.

May 5, 2026
The Joke on Eloise Morey
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
15 min
Eloise is the domineering, unpleasant wife of Dudley Morey, a failed artist with a sensitive nature. She takes great pleasure in detailing just what a miserable failure he is.

May 5, 2026
The Second-Story Angel
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
30 min
Struggling writer searching for a plot for his next story when he is visited by a lovely lady burglar in the night. Rather than turn her over to the police, he hopes she will tell him her life story, which he will then use for his fiction.

May 5, 2026
Afraid of a Gun
May 5, 2026
May 5, 2026
22 min
Owen Sack is a small, wiry man who is initially portrayed as a coward because of his intense fear of firearms. He admits that just as a dog might bite if it senses fear, he believes guns are "that way" too.

May 3, 2026
Woman Without Love Part 1
May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026
1hr 27 min
Story of a country girl whose affair with a traveling man led her into wayward paths and sinister habits. She became a woman who lived her life to the full, without apology and yet without true love. The lives of Madame Leota, who lost her youth in one evil hour.

May 3, 2026
Woman Without Love Part 2
May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026
1hr 27 min
Story of a country girl whose affair with a traveling man led her into wayward paths and sinister habits. She became a woman who lived her life to the full, without apology and yet without true love. The lives of Madame Leota, who lost her youth in one evil hour.

May 3, 2026
Woman Without Love Part 3
May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026
1hr 28 min
Story of a country girl whose affair with a traveling man led her into wayward paths and sinister habits. She became a woman who lived her life to the full, without apology and yet without true love. The lives of Madame Leota, who lost her youth in one evil hour.

May 3, 2026
Woman Without Love Part 4
May 3, 2026
May 3, 2026
1hr 27 min
Story of a country girl whose affair with a traveling man led her into wayward paths and sinister habits. She became a woman who lived her life to the full, without apology and yet without true love. The lives of Madame Leota, who lost her youth in one evil hour.

Mar 17, 2026
Deathworld
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026
5hr 43 min
Harry Harrison Sci-Fi short story Deathworld. Pyrrus a place where beasts, plants and natural elements were designed for one purpose, destroy man. It was for Jason dinAlt to discover why?

Mar 17, 2026
The Ethical Engineer
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026
4hr 4 min
Harry Harrison Sci-Fi short story sequel to Deathworld. Jason dinAlt is kidnapped and crash-lands on a world, forcing him to navigate warring factions and reinvent technology to survive.

Mar 17, 2026
The Stainless Steel Rat
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026
47 min
Harry Harrison Sci-Fi short story. James Bolivar diGriz, criminal mastermind known as Slippery Jim and The Stainless Steel Rat. Skilled con man, thief, and master of disguise, steals without remorse but refuses to kill.

Mar 17, 2026
The Misplaced Battleship
Mar 17, 2026
Mar 17, 2026
1hr 6 min
Harry Harrison Sci-Fi short story. Seem careless to lose as big as a battleship but interstellar space is on a different scale of magnitude. But a misplaced battleship in the wrong hands! Can be most dangerous.

Mar 16, 2026
The Repairman
Mar 16, 2026
Mar 16, 2026
31 min
Harry Harrison Sci-Fi short story. Interstellar troubleshooter who must repair an ancient, crucial hyperspace beacon on a distant planet, technical challenges, cultural misunderstandings and a binding contract that prevents him from quitting.

Mar 16, 2026
Arm of the Law
Mar 16, 2026
Mar 16, 2026
38 min
Harry Harrison Sci-Fi short story. A large, heavy crate arrives at a backwater Martian police station containing a 120,000-credit robot recruit.

Feb 22, 2026
Caught in the Net Part 1
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 6 min
Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau. It is the first part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, which concludes with its sequel, The Champdoce Mystery. Monsieur Mascarin, has a blackmailing syndicate disguised as an employment agency. Exploits poor young men to infiltrate noble families and their fortunes. This novel is followed by The Champdoce Mystery.

Feb 22, 2026
Caught in the Net Part 2
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 6 min
Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau. It is the first part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, which concludes with its sequel, The Champdoce Mystery. Monsieur Mascarin, has a blackmailing syndicate disguised as an employment agency. Exploits poor young men to infiltrate noble families and their fortunes. This novel is followed by The Champdoce Mystery.

Feb 22, 2026
Caught in the Net Part 3
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 6 min
Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau. It is the first part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, which concludes with its sequel, The Champdoce Mystery. Monsieur Mascarin, has a blackmailing syndicate disguised as an employment agency. Exploits poor young men to infiltrate noble families and their fortunes. This novel is followed by The Champdoce Mystery.

Feb 22, 2026
Caught in the Net Part 4
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 6 min
Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau. It is the first part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, which concludes with its sequel, The Champdoce Mystery. Monsieur Mascarin, has a blackmailing syndicate disguised as an employment agency. Exploits poor young men to infiltrate noble families and their fortunes. This novel is followed by The Champdoce Mystery.

Feb 22, 2026
Caught in the Net Part 5
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
1hr 36 min
Caught in the Net by Émile Gaboriau. It is the first part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, which concludes with its sequel, The Champdoce Mystery. Monsieur Mascarin, has a blackmailing syndicate disguised as an employment agency. Exploits poor young men to infiltrate noble families and their fortunes. This novel is followed by The Champdoce Mystery.

Feb 22, 2026
The Champdoce Mystery Part 1
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 2 min
The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau. It is the second part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, is the sequel to Caught in the Net. Louis Norbert de Champdoce, inherits the family estate and uncovers dark secrets with the help of detective Monsieur Lecoq.

Feb 22, 2026
The Champdoce Mystery Part 2
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 4 min
The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau. It is the second part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, is the sequel to Caught in the Net. Louis Norbert de Champdoce, inherits the family estate and uncovers dark secrets with the help of detective Monsieur Lecoq.

Feb 22, 2026
The Champdoce Mystery Part 3
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
2hr 3 min
The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau. It is the second part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, is the sequel to Caught in the Net. Louis Norbert de Champdoce, inherits the family estate and uncovers dark secrets with the help of detective Monsieur Lecoq.

Feb 22, 2026
The Champdoce Mystery Part 4
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
1hr 45 min
The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau. It is the second part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, is the sequel to Caught in the Net. Louis Norbert de Champdoce, inherits the family estate and uncovers dark secrets with the help of detective Monsieur Lecoq.

Feb 22, 2026
The Champdoce Mystery Part 5
Feb 22, 2026
Feb 22, 2026
1hr 45 min
The Champdoce Mystery by Émile Gaboriau. It is the second part of a two-volume series titled The Slaves of Paris, is the sequel to Caught in the Net. Louis Norbert de Champdoce, inherits the family estate and uncovers dark secrets with the help of detective Monsieur Lecoq.

Feb 1, 2026
Beyond Lies the Wub
Feb 1, 2026
Feb 1, 2026
18 min
Sci-Fi short story by Philip K. Dick, Spaceship crewman Peterson purchases a wub, massive, pig-like creature from a Martian native for fifty cents. Captain Franco, views the wub as a source of meat. Crew grows unease as he remains determined to eat it.

Feb 1, 2026
Slippery Fingers
Feb 1, 2026
Feb 1, 2026
38 min
Detective short story by Dashiell Hammett, the Continental Operative is consulted by Frederick Grover about the death of his father. He withdrew $10,000 from the bank a day before he was found stabbed in his library, with the money gone.

Feb 1, 2026
Laughing Masks
Feb 1, 2026
Feb 1, 2026
1hr 15 min
Short story by Dashiell Hammett, set in San Francisco and the town of Burlingame south of the City, it is an adventure story. It drops a small-fry working-class compulsive gambler into a fairy-tale struggle against an upper-class villain.

Jan 27, 2026
2BR02B
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026
17 min
Short story by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., a future where aging is cured, leading to overpopulation. Controlled by a government agency that requires one person to die for every new birth. the Federal Bureau of Termination, which manages the mandatory euthanasia program.

Jan 27, 2026
It Continental Detective Story
Jan 27, 2026
Jan 27, 2026
30 min
Detective short story by Dashiell Hammett, Dan Rathbone locks $100,000 dollars’ worth of bonds in the company safe before going on a business trip. When Rathbone goes missing, his partner discovers that the funds have vanished along with him.

Jan 18, 2026
The Maltese Falcon Part 1
Jan 18, 2026
Jan 18, 2026
1hr 51 min
Detective novel by Dashiell Hammett Sam Spade, private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, grafter named Joel Cairo, fat man name Gutman, Brigid O’Shaughnessy beautiful but treacherous woman and influential and beloved The Maltese Falcon.

Jan 18, 2026
The Maltese Falcon Part 2
Jan 18, 2026
Jan 18, 2026
1hr 52 min
Detective novel by Dashiell Hammett Sam Spade, private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, grafter named Joel Cairo, fat man name Gutman, Brigid O’Shaughnessy beautiful but treacherous woman and influential and beloved The Maltese Falcon.

Jan 18, 2026
The Maltese Falcon Part 3
Jan 18, 2026
Jan 18, 2026
52 min
Detective novel by Dashiell Hammett Sam Spade, private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, grafter named Joel Cairo, fat man name Gutman, Brigid O’Shaughnessy beautiful but treacherous woman and influential and beloved The Maltese Falcon.

Jan 18, 2026
The Maltese Falcon Part 4
Jan 18, 2026
Jan 18, 2026
1hr 17 min
Detective novel by Dashiell Hammett Sam Spade, private eye with his own solitary code of ethics, grafter named Joel Cairo, fat man name Gutman, Brigid O’Shaughnessy beautiful but treacherous woman and influential and beloved The Maltese Falcon.

Dec 17, 2025
Linked in Silence
Dec 17, 2025
Dec 17, 2025
1hr 53 min
Crime drama By Gilbert Patten. You have been very sick; you know a man must die. You know he is dead but you can’t remember if you did it or not. There is a woman on trial for the murder, if you could only remember.

Dec 17, 2025
Premonition of Evil
Dec 17, 2025
Dec 17, 2025
49 min
Crime drama by James O'Connor Sargent The yellow moon, drifting behind low-hanging clouds, added to Helene Ramsay’s melancholy. Around midnight, a premonition of evil had stirred in Helene’s breast. She had wanted to cut free.

Dec 15, 2025
The Pigeons of Wong Foo
Dec 15, 2025
Dec 15, 2025
37 min
Adventure short story by J. Allan Dunn. Wong Foo being something of the poet, something of the philosopher and merchant, loved the sight of perfect pearls and blue pigeons, they were all fairly tame and fairly friendly.

Dec 14, 2025
System
Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025
29 min
Short story of crime and corruption by James Hendryx What happens when you have a negative police system, not a formal criminal justice and a breakdown of trust.

Dec 14, 2025
Torture
Dec 14, 2025
Dec 14, 2025
1hr 23 min
Short story about crime and fear By Walter Pierson. What is torture? We think immediately of the physical but what about the emotional the psychological this can also be a form of torture.

Dec 13, 2025
What Happened to Crandall
Dec 13, 2025
Dec 13, 2025
1hr 11 min
Adventure Short Story by Bertram Atkey. Jack Crandall, an orchid hunter, goes missing. A detective to investigates, only to find something sinister.

Nov 24, 2025
The Skeleton
Nov 24, 2025
Nov 24, 2025
28 min
Western short story by B. M. Bower. Pink, called Little One by Big Medicine both of the Flying U outfit, accidentally discovers a grim secret about his friend and stands by him who is in sore straits.

Nov 10, 2025
Water Weed Part 1
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1hr 49 min
Alice Campbell detective story. Virginia Carew is in England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier. Glenn is besotted with a lady, with whom he’s been staying with. It isn’t long before Virginia is a guest of the family. There are snakes in this Garden of Eden—snakes entangled in jealousy, blackmail and murder.

Nov 10, 2025
Water Weed Part 2
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1hr 48 min
Alice Campbell detective story. Virginia Carew is in England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier. Glenn is besotted with a lady, with whom he’s been staying with. It isn’t long before Virginia is a guest of the family. There are snakes in this Garden of Eden—snakes entangled in jealousy, blackmail and murder.

Nov 10, 2025
Water Weed Part 3
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1hr 47 min
Alice Campbell detective story. Virginia Carew is in England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier. Glenn is besotted with a lady, with whom he’s been staying with. It isn’t long before Virginia is a guest of the family. There are snakes in this Garden of Eden—snakes entangled in jealousy, blackmail and murder.

Nov 10, 2025
Water Weed Part 4
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1hr 46 min
Alice Campbell detective story. Virginia Carew is in England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier. Glenn is besotted with a lady, with whom he’s been staying with. It isn’t long before Virginia is a guest of the family. There are snakes in this Garden of Eden—snakes entangled in jealousy, blackmail and murder.

Nov 10, 2025
Water Weed Part 5
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1hr 45 min
Alice Campbell detective story. Virginia Carew is in England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier. Glenn is besotted with a lady, with whom he’s been staying with. It isn’t long before Virginia is a guest of the family. There are snakes in this Garden of Eden—snakes entangled in jealousy, blackmail and murder.

Nov 10, 2025
Water Weed Part 6
Nov 10, 2025
Nov 10, 2025
1hr 46 min
Alice Campbell detective story. Virginia Carew is in England when she encounters old friend Glenn Hillier. Glenn is besotted with a lady, with whom he’s been staying with. It isn’t long before Virginia is a guest of the family. There are snakes in this Garden of Eden—snakes entangled in jealousy, blackmail and murder.






