Classic Audiobook Collection

The Silver Bullet by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a walking tour across the lonely English moors, Dr. Jim Herrick and his friend Robin Joyce stumble on an eerie sight: a great house blazing with light, its doors standing wide as if inviting anyone in. Inside the silent rooms they find not a host, but a corpse - Colonel Carr, shot and left in the middle of his strange, deserted grandeur...

The Sacred Herb by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Bored with the easy privileges of his title and fortune, Lord Prelice is goaded into action by his formidable aunt and sent to the Old Bailey to witness a sensational murder trial. The accused is Mona Chent, a poised young woman charged with killing her wealthy uncle, Sir Oliver Lanwin, at his country house, Lanwin Grange. Her only champion...

The Pagan’s Cup by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In the sleepy English seaside village of Colester, where an ancient chapel and older families still govern daily life, newcomer Richard Pratt arrives with money, charm, and a disconcerting talent for winning his way into closed doors. To ingratiate himself with the locals, Pratt offers an extravagant gift to the church: a remarkable antique...

The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In Edwardian London, young Paul Beecot breaks away from a stifling life in the country to chase a writing career and a chance at independence. His new start takes an ominous turn when he crosses paths with the guarded pawnbroker Aaron Norman and Norman's captivating daughter, Sylvia, whose loyalty to her father is matched only by her fear o...

The Mikado Jewel by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In fog-bound Edwardian London, Patricia Carrol, an out-of-work Irish governess, is scraping by at a shabby Bayswater boarding house optimistically nicknamed The Home of Art. When the lodgers troop off to celebrate a play premiere, Patricia stays behind to tend Mrs. Pentreddle, the landlady's grim, secretive sister. The old woman offers Patr...

The Lady From Nowhere by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery On a warm July night in 1896, the quiet London suburb of Grangebury is jolted awake by a single cry: murder. Maria Presk, a hard pressed landlady in Paradise Row, has found her newest lodger, the reclusive Miss Ligram, strangled inside a lavish chamber drenched in yellow silk and candlelight. Called in to assist the plodding local insp...

The Girl From Malta by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery One evening as the P. and O.'s vessel 'Neptune' steams away from Australia to Britain, Ronald Monteith, a young, wealthy Australian is taken into the confidence of a fellow-passenger Lionel Ventin who relates the story of his rather tragic life. When Ventin is found stabbed to death in his cabin the next morning Monteith vows to find the...

The Crimson Cryptogram by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In late-Victorian England, young Dr. Robert Ellis is running out of money, patience, and hope. Night after night, he and his journalist friend, Harry Cass, talk in their shabby rooms about a future that never seems to arrive - until a frantic neighbor, the young and shaken Mrs. Moxton, bursts in with a nightmare announcement: her husb...

The Clock Struck One by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery In the sun-baked lanes outside Canterbury, Dora Carew rides her bicycle with the confidence of a modern young woman, but the home she returns to - the lonely Red House - is steeped in old fears. Her guardian, Julian Edermont, has lived in strict seclusion for years, yet a single church service rattles him to the core: at the prayer for...

The Bishop’s Secret by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit from a disreputable-looking visitor. The bishop is much upset. What transpired between them that has so upset the good churchman? And then there is the murder. Fergus Hume was one of the most prolif...

Red Money by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery At Lord Garvington's country estate, a languid shooting-season house party goes looking for novelty in Abbot's Wood: a traveling Romany camp offering fortunes, music, and a brush with the forbidden. The excursion would be harmless gossip, if the neighborhood were not already nervous about a string of burglaries - and if Garvington were not so eage...

Mystery of a Hansom Cab by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery “The following report appeared in the Argus newspaper of Saturday, the 28th July, 18-- “Truth is said to be stranger than fiction, and certainly the extraordinary murder which took place in Melbourne on Thursday night, or rather Friday morning, goes a long way towards verifying this saying. A crime has been committed by an unknown as...

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop by Fergus Hume audiobook. Genre: mystery Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the legitimate heir can be traced. In the odd assortment of objects that pass across her cou...

The Offshore Pirate by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: romance Set in the glittering early 20th century, The Offshore Pirate follows Ardita Farnam, a sharp-tongued, wealthy young woman who is tired of being treated like an ornament and determined to steer her own life. Escaping watchful chaperones aboard her uncle's yacht, Ardita insists on adventure - and finds it in the most unexpected way...

The Ice Palace by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In The Ice Palace, F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Sally Carrol Happer, a spirited young woman from a small Southern town who feels both cherished and confined by the languid rhythms of Georgia life. When she becomes engaged to Harry Bellamy, a promising man from the North, Sally Carrol sees a chance to step into a larger world - and to...

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: fantasy In a quietly uncanny Baltimore, a child is born under extraordinary circumstances: Benjamin Button arrives with the appearance and manner of an old man, setting his family on a collision course with confusion, embarrassment, and reluctant wonder. As the years pass, Benjamin moves through school, work, love, and so...

The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama Set in the glittering, uneasy years just before and after World War I, The Beautiful and Damned follows Anthony Patch, a charming Harvard graduate who believes his real life will begin once he inherits his wealthy grandfather's fortune. In New York City he meets Gloria Gilbert, a magnetic young woman whose beauty and appetite...

Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In Tales of the Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald gathers a vivid set of stories that capture the glitter and unease of post-World War I America, when prosperity, parties, and reinvention seemed to promise a new kind of freedom. Moving from Manhattan drawing rooms to small town streets and into dreamlike, even fable-like landscapes,...

Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama Step into the bright, restless world of the early 1920s with Flappers and Philosophers, F. Scott Fitzgerald's sparkling first story collection. Across eight tales of youth, money, and sudden desire, Fitzgerald follows dreamers and social climbers as they chase romance, status, and the newest thrills of the Jazz Age. In the ti...

Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook. Genre: drama In this sharp, witty story of youth and status, Bernice, a shy girl from the East, arrives for a summer visit with her dazzling cousin Marjorie at a small-town country club in Minnesota. Surrounded by dances, tennis, porch gossip, and a social scene ruled by quick tongues and quicker judgments, Bernice feels invisible next to Mar...

Man Overboard! by F. Marion Crawford audiobook. Genre: horror A storm howls across the sea as the schooner Helen B. Jackson fights to stay afloat, and in the chaos a cry rings out: man overboard. When the crew counts heads after the gale, one of the Benton twins is missing - Jim or Jack, so alike that even shipmates hesitate to swear which brother was swept away. The loss should be the end of it,...

Sentry of the Sky by Evelyn E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Clarey is a low-ranking Sub-Archivist in a rigid future society where your job classification can define your entire life, and his private dream of becoming a musician feels more impossible every year. Then, during what he expects to be yet another disappointing visit to the Classification Center, Clarey is abruptly reassigned - not to t...

The Biography of a Grizzly by Ernest Thompson Seton audiobook. Genre: biography In The Biography of a Grizzly, Ernest Thompson Seton tells the life story of a wild bear with the attention and dignity usually reserved for human heroes. From his first uncertain steps in the mountain forests to his rise as a powerful, wary survivor, the grizzly (often known as Wahb) learns the hard rules of a world s...

The Jack-Knife Man by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: family Ellis Parker Butler's The Jack-Knife Man is a warm, quietly comic story of unlikely family and hard-won belonging along the Mississippi River. Peter Lane is an aging drifter who lives alone on a battered houseboat, passing his days with a jack-knife in hand, whittling small wooden figures and keeping to himself. But on a stormy nig...

The Confessions of a Daddy by Ellis Parker Butler audiobook. Genre: comedy The wry humor of Ellis Parker Butler, who gave us the classic Pigs Is Pigs, takes us into his own married life where Marthy and Hiram live quietly in their Colorado town. They don't have trouble with anyone of their neighbors. Why should they, as they don't have any kids that could cause the neighbors trouble? And oh, lucki...