Historical Fiction audiobooks

Taken at the Flood

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman.A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the... Read more

Spider's Web

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie. Read more

At Bertram's Hotel

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 6 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events.An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.…When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she finds what she’s looking for at Bertram’s Hotel:... Read more

After the Funeral

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is called on to investigate the murder of a brother and sister, in this classic Agatha Christie mystery now available in an updated edition with a foreword Sophie Hannah. “He was murdered, wasn’t he?”When Cora Lansquenet is savagely murdered, the extraordinary remark she had made the previous day at her brother Richard’s funeral... Read more

Sleeping Murder

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Sleeping Murder, the indomitable Miss Marple turns ghost hunter and uncovers shocking evidence of a perfect crime.Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernize the house, she only succeeded in dredging up its past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense... Read more

Sad Cypress

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning:... Read more

Postern of Fate

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of... Read more

Peril at End House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer—and it’s up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with... Read more

N or M?

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Set during the dark days of World War II, Agatha Christie’s N or M? puts two most unlikely espionage agents, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford, on the trail of a pair of Nazi spies who have murdered Britain’s top agent.World War II is raging, and while the RAF struggles to keep the Luftwaffe at bay, Britain faces a sinister threat from “the enemy... Read more

Murder on the Links

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s class mystery Murder on the Links, Hercule Poirot attempts to unravel the grisly conundrum of not one, but two dead bodies discovered on a French golf course. An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France. But he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face down in a shallow grave... Read more

Murder Is Easy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

A quiet English village is plagued by a fiendish serial killer in Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie’s classic thriller, Murder is Easy.Luke Fitzwilliam does not believe Miss Pinkerton’s wild allegation that a multiple murderer is at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood and that her local doctor is next in line.But within hours, Miss... Read more

Murder in Mesopotamia

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Anna Massey

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie.Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site deep in the Iraqi desert to nurse the wife of a... Read more

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, one of Agatha Christie’s most ingenious mysteries, the intrepid Hercule Poirot must look into the case of a brutally murdered landlady.Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes reveal traces of the victim’s blood and hair.... Read more

Lord Edgware Dies

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie.When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police are baffled. His estranged actress wife was seen... Read more

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Hercule Poirot’s Christmas, the holidays are anything but merry when a family reunion is marred by murder—and the notoriously fastidious investigator is quickly on the case.Christmas Eve, and the Lee family’s reunion is shattered by a deafening crash of furniture and a high-pitched wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead... Read more

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Jade Star

By: Catherine Coulter

Narrated by: Chloe Campbell

Length: 11 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Fourth in the Star Quartet from #1 New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter.Vowing to save a young girl from her painful past, Saint Morris marries her out of duty. He thinks of himself as her protector and brother. But she has other ideas.... Read more

Burrows

By: Reavis Z. Wortham

Narrated by: Traber Burns

Length: 9 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Lyndon B. Johnson is president, Beatlemania is in overdrive, and gasoline costs thirty cents a gallon when Ned Parker retires as constable in Center Springs, Texas. But his plan to live a quiet life as a cotton farmer is torpedoed. A phone call leads Ned to a body in the Red River and into the urgent investigation headed by his nephew, the newly... Read more

The Woman at the Light

By: Joanna Brady

Narrated by: Hillary Huber

Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

In the tradition of Leila Meacham and Dorothea Benton Frank comes a stunning debut novel about a well-born Southern woman who finds courage and strength to overcome tragedy with an unexpected new love.One afternoon in 1839, Emily Lowry’s husband vanishes from Wreckers’ Cay, an isolated island off the coast of Key West where he tends the... Read more

Home by Nightfall

By: Alexis Harrington

Narrated by: Amy Rubinate

Length: 8 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1918, Susannah Braddock is devastated by the news that her beloved husband, Riley, has been killed in battle in France. Heartbroken, she turns to Tanner Grenfell for support. Though technically the Braddocks’ hired hand, Tanner has been helping Susannah run the family horse farm since Riley shipped out, and he has become a true and trusted... Read more

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”A childish... Read more

Nemesis

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s baffling detective story, Nemesis, a letter from a dead man instructs Miss Marple how to conduct an investigation into a puzzlingly unspecific crime.In utter disbelief, Miss Marple read the letter addressed to her from the recently deceased Mr. Rafiel—an acquaintance she had met briefly on her travels. He had left... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 20 minutes

Abridged: No

The Murder at the Vicarage is Agatha Christie’s first mystery to feature the beloved investigator Miss Marple—as a dead body in a clergyman’s study proves to the indomitable sleuth that no place, holy or otherwise, is a sanctuary from homicide.Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in the sleepy little village of St. Mary Mead, where... Read more

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, a fatal dose of poison meant for a glamorous movie star fells her ardent admirer instead—and Miss Marple is there to unmask a murderer.One minute, silly Heather Babcock had been babbling on at her movie idol, the glamorous Marina Gregg. The next, Heather suffered a... Read more