Victorian fantasy classic
1871
At the Back of the North Wind
George MacDonald
9 h 21 min
A coachman's boy is carried over the London rooftops by the North Wind, and comes home to a harder world. One of the books where modern English fantasy begins.
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Victorian fantasy classic
1871
George MacDonald
9 h 21 min
A coachman's boy is carried over the London rooftops by the North Wind, and comes home to a harder world. One of the books where modern English fantasy begins.
Garden diary & comedy of manners
1898
Elizabeth von Arnim
5 h 10 min · Elizabeth #1
A year in a neglected Pomeranian garden, with tea-roses planted against all authority and a husband set down only as the Man of Wrath.
First World War spy adventure
1916
John Buchan
9 h 35 min
Three words on a scrap of paper send Richard Hannay across wartime Europe to Constantinople, where something is rising in the East.
Victorian ghost story
1873
Mary Louisa Molesworth
38 min
An old woman enters an unused room and leaves behind an impossible memory.
Forensic detective mystery
1909
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 3 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A murder in a locked flat, an impossible weapon and a clue hidden in geometry and ballistics.
Golden Age detective novel
1926
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 5 min · Philo Vance #1
A Wall Street broker is shot in his own armchair, and Philo Vance insists that evidence proves nothing and temperament everything. His first case.
Locked-room mystery novel
1892
Israel Zangwill
5 h 3 min
A lodger is found with his throat cut in a room fastened from the inside, and two detectives read the same facts to opposite ends. The locked-room novel begins here.
Golden Age detective novel
1929
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 36 min · Philo Vance #4
Cock Robin dies with an arrow through his heart, and a killer signing himself THE BISHOP turns nursery rhymes into a deadly game.
Romantic novel
1926
L. M. Montgomery
8 h 6 min
Told she has a year to live, Valancy Stirling walks out of her mother's house and goes in for realities. Montgomery's rare novel for adults.
Victorian ghost story
1899
Arthur Conan Doyle
34 min
A severed hand. A broken promise. More than a thousand nights of haunting.
Golden Age detective novel
1927
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 8 min · Philo Vance #2
A Broadway star is strangled behind a bolted door that nobody used. Philo Vance asks for a card table instead of the fingerprints.
Arctic ghost story
1883
Arthur Conan Doyle
1 h 2 min
A woman's voice calls across the frozen sea, and the captain follows.
Gothic revenge
1893
Arthur Conan Doyle
26 min
A celebrated surgeon, a veiled patient and a punishment planned in silence.
Detective mystery
1894
Arthur Morrison
48 min
Britain's newest torpedo plans vanish from an apparently impossible office.
American regional classic
1896
Sarah Orne Jewett
4 h 25 min
A summer lodger in a Maine fishing village, the herb-gatherer Mrs. Todd, and a world where nothing is raised above speaking voice.
Espionage thriller
1926
William Le Queux
7 h 49 min
A famous novelist who doubles as Britain's eyes in Europe sets out to charm a secret worth a war from the woman at the next table.
Comic diary
1892
George and Weedon Grossmith
4 h 40 min
Charles Pooter records every small triumph and humiliation of a City clerk's life, from a red-enamelled bath to a son renamed Lupin.
Forensic detective mystery
1923
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 2 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A body in a burning hayrick. A dental plate far from the ashes. Thorndyke asks who really died.
Comic novella
1924
William John Locke
1 h 2 min
A leader of the Chancery Bar wakes barefoot in a gipsy caravan on a French road, with no memory of the last three days.
Golden Age detective novel
1928
S. S. Van Dine
10 h 25 min · Philo Vance #3
Behind a high wall on 53rd Street, a family bound together by a will is shot one by one. The coldest and most rigorously built of Vance's cases.
Victorian ghost & murder mystery
1878
Wilkie Collins
6 h 53 min
A Venetian palace becomes a hotel, and the room where a lord died is quietly renumbered. Ghost story and murder plot, braided together.
Country-house farce
1928
Hilaire Belloc
6 h 47 min
To win back his father's house from a speculator with a bought ancestor, John Maple decides that Rackham can be haunted.
Cosmic horror
1908
William Hope Hodgson
6 h 13 min
A diary dug from the ruins of a house in the west of Ireland: swine-things from the Pit, and a vision of the sun going out.
Gothic mystery
1899
Arthur Conan Doyle
31 min
A locked black box guards a voice from the past and a private grief.
Gothic Egyptian horror
1903
Bram Stoker
9 h 22 min
An Egyptologist lies senseless below his locked safe, and a queen's sarcophagus waits in the next room. Stoker's mummy story.
Gothic horror
1902
Arthur Conan Doyle
31 min
An old object remembers the terror it once witnessed—and shares the memory.
Edwardian social novel
1901
Frances Hodgson Burnett
9 h 6 min
Penniless, obliging Emily Fox-Seton is asked a question on the heath, and a Cinderella story cools into something colder.
Classic horror
1902
W. W. Jacobs
27 min
Three wishes. One warning. A knock at the door after midnight.
Victorian detective novel
1886
Fergus Hume
9 h 17 min
A dead man is delivered to a Melbourne police station in a cab, and a young Irishman would rather hang than explain his evening.
Locked-room mystery
1897
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
52 min
A circular bedroom conceals a mechanism designed to kill without a witness.
Locked-room mystery
1925
R. Austin Freeman
56 min · Dr Thorndyke story
Fifteen discs. Two bodies. One strong-room engineered as a death trap.
Golden Age detective novel
1930
S. S. Van Dine
8 h 59 min · Philo Vance #5
A patron lies dead at the feet of Anûbis in a private Egyptian museum, and Philo Vance calls the evidence too simple.
Garden diary
1899
Elizabeth von Arnim
4 h 13 min · Elizabeth #2
She announces a summer entirely alone with her garden; the Man of Wrath taps the barometer and waits for rain.
Crime novel
1927
Marie Belloc Lowndes
9 h
Ivy Lexton has two minutes alone in a doctor's surgery and a powder puff in her bag. An early English crime story told from the poisoner's side of the door.
Victorian ghost story
1887
Mary Louisa Molesworth
27 min
A pearl-grey figure ripples through a locked study door—and through memory.
Classic horror
1910
Arthur Morrison
23 min
Something waits beyond the mirror in the room that should have been empty.
Railway detective mystery
1912
Victor L. Whitechurch
30 min
A railway death staged as an accident draws Thorpe Hazell into a trail of hidden evidence.
Classic science fiction
1898
H. G. Wells
6 h 45 min
A cylinder falls on Horsell Common, and the lid begins to turn. The full novel, unabridged.
Comic novel
1889
Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne
6 h 21 min
A tontine worth a hundred thousand pounds, a corpse that is the wrong uncle, and a body travelling as freight across England.
Pastoral novel
1872
Thomas Hardy
6 h 36 min
The Mellstock quire loses its treble to a lit window on Christmas Eve, and a village church's music plays its last season.
Victorian ghost story
1888
Mary Louisa Molesworth
41 min
Two people witness what no living visitor could have done.
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