Historical Fiction audiobooks

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A young banker is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a transatlantic journey to New York, and appeals to Hercule Poirot to clear his name. Poirot learns the identities of the three people who hold keys to the locked trunk, but it won't be as easy to identify the true thief… Read more

Jane in Search of a Job

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other StoriesJane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts have been... Read more

The Manhood of Edward Robinson

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories.Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women, and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he immediately buys the sleek red car of his dreams –... Read more

The Rajah’s Emerald

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and... Read more

The Coming of Mr. Quin

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 40 minutes

Abridged: No

On a dark evening, Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he embarks upon the tragic tale of Royston Hall's former occupants, leading to a dramatic change in the perceptions of the current inhabitants – but has Mr. Quin's revelation come too late? Read more

The Shadow on the Glass

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: No

At Mr. and Mrs. Unkerton's party in Greenway's House, Mr. Satterthwaite learns of a haunted window: no matter how many times it is replaced, it always contains the image of a gentleman in a plumed hat. When gunshots are heard, Satterthwaite finds that two of the guests have been shot dead, which is shortly followed by a sighting of the gentleman... Read more

The Merchant of Dreams

By: Anne Lyle

Narrated by: Michael Page

Length: 13 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Exiled from the court of Queen Elizabeth for accusing a powerful nobleman of treason, swordsman-turned-spy Mal Catlyn has been living in France with his young valet Coby Hendricks for the past year. But Mal harbours a darker secret: he and his twin brother share a soul that once belonged to a skrayling, one of the mystical creatures from the New... Read more

Bianca

By: Bertrice Small

Narrated by: Jill Tanner

Length: 13 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

New York Times best-selling author Bertrice Small earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from RT Book Reviews for her captivating historical romances. Set in Florence during the Renaissance, Bianca begins a new series featuring a beautiful silk merchant's daughter who's sold into marriage following a family scandal. But even after her cruel husband... Read more

A Cruel Harvest

By: Paul Reid

Narrated by: Sarah Coomes

Length: 13 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in 1790, A Cruel Harvest tells the epic tale of Orlaith and Brannon, young lovers whose futures are jeopardized when Moorish pirates raid their Irish fishing village. Orlaith and her infant son manage to escape the savage attack, but Brannon is captured. Thrown into the hold of the pirates’ ship, the young farmer is spirited away to the... Read more

The Pearl Harbor Murders

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Edgar Rice Burroughs created the wildly popular Tarzan of the Apes and John Carter of Mars, but the exploits of his heroes cannot rival the writer’s own explosive adventure, sparked by the tragic murder of a young beauty on a moon-swept Honolulu beach.The killing is written off as the tragic result of a lovers’ quarrel, but Burroughs suspects... Read more

Nice Weekend for a Murder

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

A mountaintop mansion. A motley collection of guests. A murder. This weekend has all the makings of a classic, cozy mystery story. And a story is all it’s supposed to be—acted out by noted authors and eager fans at the atmospheric Mohonk Mountain House resort in upstate New York.Along with a gaggle of his peers, Mallory’s been invited to join... Read more

The Lusitania Murders

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 6 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

The Lusitania’s final voyage is a newsman’s dream. First come the torpedo warnings. Then come the murders…Journalist and mystery writer Willard Huntington Wright boards the Lusitania in pursuit of a hot story. Under the guise of conducting interviews with prominent passengers, his real assignment is to investigate rumors that the luxury liner is... Read more

The First Assassin

By: John J. Miller

Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell

Length: 13 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Winter 1861: the United States teeters on the brink of civil war. In Washington, D.C., Colonel Charles P. Rook is tapped to organize the district’s security and to protect president-elect Abraham Lincoln from the death threats pouring in to the White House. He surrounds the president with bodyguards and fills the city’s rooftops with... Read more

No Cure for Death

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

What kind of drama could happen in a small-town Iowa bus station? If you’re a guy like Mallory, it’s the kind that involves sidestepping trouble between a pretty, frightened blonde and a pretty frightening, two-fisted, one-eyed goon. With the help of a handy Pepsi bottle, Mallory saves the lady from the menacing lout, shares a heartfelt moment,... Read more

The Baby Blue Rip-Off

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Dan John Miller

Length: 4 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Vietnam vet Mallory has been everywhere and done everything—from hippie life to construction work, from covering a reporter’s beat to walking a cop’s—before finally returning to small-town Iowa to try his hand at writing. In between crafting whodunits, he does his part for the community by ferrying hot meals to little old ladies. But then his... Read more

The Unfaithful Queen

By: Carolly Erickson

Narrated by: Stina Nielsen

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wife of Henry VIII, a novel about Catherine Howard, wife of Henry's later years

Amid the turbulent, faction-ridden late reign of the fearsome Henry, eager high-spirited Catherine Howard caught the king's eye—but not before she had been the sensual plaything of at least three other men. Ignorant... Read more

The London Blitz Murders

By: Max Allan Collins

Narrated by: Anne Flosnik

Length: 5 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

By day, she’s Mrs. Mallowan, hospital pharmacist. By night, she’s Agatha Christie, queen of crime.Doing her part for the war effort, Agatha dispenses medicine in shell-shocked London. But the world’s most renowned mystery writer is troubled. Compared to the horrors of World War II, her detective novels seem trivial and quaint. When a Jack the... Read more

The Adventure of the ‘Western Star’

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous ""Western Star,"" to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the genuine article? Read more

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat. Read more

The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs. Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in cases which have concerned some of the best-known jewels in the world. Excited by his anecdotes,... Read more

The House of Lurking Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to act the Great Detective Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and, due to her dislike of chocolates, was the only one to not fall afoul of the arsenic-spiked treats. But, Miss... Read more

The Man in the Mist

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The rather disgruntled pair of Tommy and Tuppence are sequestered in the Grand Adlington Hotel, having made a pig’s ear out of their latest case. But, while mournfully sipping cocktails, with Tommy oddly dressed as a parson, they are gleefully accosted by their old acquaintance Mr. Bulger, who has London’s most beautiful stage actress, Gilda... Read more

The Case of the Missing Lady

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

When a six-foot-tall tan giant of man comes into Albert Blunt’s International Detective agency, Tommy and Tuppence—married couple and detective aficionados—are in for a treat. Not only has Mr. Stavansson emerged after a two-year Arctic adventure, but he’s lost his fiancée Hermione too. What telegrams and scraps of information Tommy and Tuppence... Read more

Finessing the King

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A personal advertisement written in code attracts the attention of Tuppence Beresford. When Tuppence suspects that the code involves the Three Arts Ball, she persuades Tommy to attend dressed in costume. Tuppence's suspicions prove to be correct when a murder takes place, but as all of the guests are dressed in masquerade, identifying the killer... Read more