Victorian Mystery Classics

Late one moonlit night, Walter Hartright encounters a solitary and terrified woman dressed all in white. He saves her from capture by her pursuers and determines to solve the mystery of her distress and terror. Inspired by an actual criminal case, this gripping tale of murder, intrigue, madness and mistaken identity has never been out of print since its publication and brought Collins great fame and success.

An espionage thriller that has been called the first great spy novel, it has sustained its popularity, being embraced by each new generation. The first in a series of five novels it features the spy Richard Hannay, an action hero with a stiff upper lip who gets caught up in a dangerous race against a plot by German spies to destroy the British war effort. When Richard Hannay offers sanctuary to an American agent seeking his help in stopping a political assassination, he takes the first step on a trail of peril and espionage.

The Secret Agent was one of the first espionage novels ever written, and it is certainly one of the finest in the oeuvre of Joseph Conrad. The story concerns the attempt by a group of back-alley revolutionaries to destroy one of London's most famous landmarks and thereby set off a revolution.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic Victorian mystery by George Manville Fenn, The Mynns' Mystery opens when a respected London businessman is found dead in his locked study, with a mysterious blood-stained envelope on his desk. As the investigation unfolds, family secrets...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A classic Victorian gothic suspense novel: a young orphaned heiress is sent to live with her mysterious, brooding uncle at his decaying country estate, where she uncovers dark family secrets and a deadly conspiracy targeting her fortune...

A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistence, which starts in Victorian England but moves to the American West, and the environment of the early Mormon communities.

She wears black, dresses in the latest fashion, and tells no one who she is. When the elegant widow Mrs. Dale settles in a sleepy English village, the gossip starts at once. Respectable ladies murmur that a woman so stylish has no business in mourning, and young Mabin Rose is warned by her...

An occult device leaving threatening messages. A dinner party ending with a fatal main course. Was it a tragic accident, or is something foul at play? The Society of Free Spirits invites you to investigate, in this YA crime series with a supernatural twist. Ada Hawthorne would much rather be...

BBC Radio dramatisations and readings of Browning’s most famous poems, performed by stars including Anton Lesser, Roger Allam and David Tennant, plus two bonus plays Victorian poet Robert Browning was renowned for his evocative dramatic monologues peopled with vivid, morally ambiguous...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A gothic Victorian mystery set in a gloomy London townhouse, where a young heir inherits a fortune hidden behind a locked iron vault—only to find the treasure vanished, his Indian servant dead, and a web of deception, sleepwalking, burglary and hidden...

The world's greatest detective returns, brought to life in a whole new way. After his apparent death at Reichenbach Falls, Sherlock Holmes walks back into 221B Baker Street and picks up right where he left off. Thirteen cases are waiting. London hasn't gotten any less dangerous in his absence...

The world's greatest detective returns - and this time, not everyone makes it out alive. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes picks up where The Adventures left off, and Conan Doyle is in full command of what makes these stories work. Holmes is sharper than ever. The cases are darker. And lurking...

The most atmospheric mystery ever written, brought to life in a whole new way. Something is haunting the moors of Dartmoor. The Baskerville family has been cursed for generations by a phantom hound - a demon dog that emerges from the fog to hunt them down one by one. When the latest heir to...

Immerse yourself in the rural charm and romance of Wessex as you listen to 'Under the Greenwood Tree', a delightful tale of love, music, and community. Thomas Hardy's vivid descriptions of country life and his tender portrayal of the budding romance between the young schoolmistress Fancy Day and the handsome church musician Dick Dewy will captivate your heart and transport you to another time and place. With its lively cast of characters, humorous anecdotes, and beautiful melodies, this audiobook is a true gem of English literature.

A new edition Wilkie Collins's classic novel with a new introduction by bestselling crime author Val McDermid The Moonstone, a yellow diamond looted from an Indian temple and believed to bring bad luck to its owner, is bequeathed to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. That very night the...

The Dead Witness gathers the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the 19th century and into the early 20th - including a wide range of overlooked gems creating the finest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories. "The Dead Witness", the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary Fortune, is the first known detective story by a woman, a suspenseful clue-strewn manhunt in the Outback. This forgotten treasure sets the tone for the whole anthology....

he game is afoot. When Dr. John Watson, a wounded veteran newly returned from Afghanistan, meets the brilliant and eccentric Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea he is about to witness the birth of a legend. Sharing rooms at 221B Baker Street, the unlikely pair soon find themselves drawn into a...

The classic Sherlock Holmes mystery, brought to life in a whole new way. A young woman receives a mysterious letter promising to reveal the truth about her missing father and restore a lost fortune. She brings the case to Sherlock Holmes. What follows is one of the most twisting, atmospheric...

The classic mystery that started it all, brought to life in a whole new way. A body in an abandoned house. No weapon. No motive. Just a single word written in blood on the wall. Scotland Yard is baffled. So they call in a consultant - a peculiar, brilliant, slightly unsettling man named Sherlock...

During the last part of the nineteenth century, the detective story took off as a popular genre as literary magazines vied with each other to draw in readers with gripping page-turners by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, Guy Boothby and Wilkie Collins. This collection brings together some of the great detectives of the Victorian era, from the master sleuth himself, Sherlock Holmes, to the mild mannered Father Brown, to the feisty J. G. Reeder.