Historical Fiction

The Mystery Girl

by Carolyn Wells Read by Roger Melin 4.4
Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president an…

Middlemarch

by George Eliot Read by Margaret Espaillat 4.7
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. It is her seventh n…

A Silent Witness

by R. Austin Freeman Read by Anna Simon 4.6
In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

The Black Arrow

by Robert Louis Stevenson Read by Mark F. Smith 4.7
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. …

The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.4
Three men are dead. Killed by a very powerful poison. Their deaths seem to be connected to a very old cabinet purchased in France and a noto…

In the Mayor's Parlour

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.5
“Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owne…

The Gloved Hand

by Burton Egbert Stevenson Read by Don W. Jenkins 4.5
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country …

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by Cori Samuel 4.6
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of …

Isobel

by James Oliver Curwood Read by Roger Melin 4.7
Action, intrigue, and a touch of romance in the farthest reaches of northern Canada. Sergeant Billy MacVeigh of the Canadian Northwest Mount…

The Mayor's Wife

by Anna Katharine Green Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Miss Saunders is out for an adventure. One, which is full of secrets, hints, and half-lies. One, which will require all of her wits. She is …

Sanctuary

by Edith Wharton Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.3
Sanctuary is a poignant exploration of love, betrayal, and the quest for personal freedom, set against the backdrop of early 20th-century so…

The Million-Dollar Suitcase

by Alice Macgowan Read by Mark Nelson 4.5
Private detective Jerry Boyne is hot on the heels of a bank teller who has just embezzled nearly a million dollars in a suitcase. Cornered i…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

by Frances Hodgson Burnett Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This story is about an American lad of 7 years old who lives with his young widowed mother in New York. He spends his days with his friend t…

The Long, Long Trail

by Max Brand Read by David Wales 4.4
A willful flirtatious girl; a morose family; a dark, mysterious, and (to some) alluring man; lots of horses, guns, honor, love, courage, and…

The Eyes Of The World

by Harold Bell Wright Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views a…

The Virginian

by Owen Wister Read by MichelleHarris 4.5
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The …

The Circular Study

by Anna Katharine Green Read by Jacquerie 4.4
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He…

The Mystery of the Hidden Room

by Christopher Harvey and Marion Harvey Read by Roger Melin 4.5
A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a my…

Scarhaven Keep

by J. S. Fletcher Read by Cate Barratt 4.5
Set against the rugged beauty of the northern English sea coast, Scarhaven Keep weaves a tale of mystery and intrigue. When a sudden disappe…

The Postmaster's Daughter

by Louis Tracy Read by Sharon Kilmer 4.3
A charming mystery story set in the early 1900s which is as much about the townspeople, sleuths and othercolorful characters as it is about …

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