Political & Thrillers

The Iron Heel

by Jack London Read by Matt Soar 4.5
The Iron Heel is a powerful exploration of a dystopian future where an American oligarchy exerts brutal control over the populace. Set in th…

The Spy

by James Fenimore Cooper Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…

The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers Read by Gesine 4.3
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yach…

Cleek of Scotland Yard

by Thomas W. Hanshew Read by Ruth Golding 4.8
Hamilton Cleek is back - or is he?Margot, Queen of the Apaches (the notorious French criminal gang) has been released on bail and vanished, …

Dangerous Days

by Mary Roberts Rinehart Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) 4.9
Dangerous Days opens in a still neutral America, though within a year the country will have joined the European alliance against the Central…

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

Fräulein oder Frau?

by Wilkie Collins Read by Hokuspokus 4.6
Die schöne Natalie Graybrooke liebt ihre Vetter Launcelot Linzie, doch ihr Vater, Sir Joseph Graybrooke, will sie mit seinem Geschä…

The Great Secret

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.4
English gentleman Hardross Courage has a good life. He has all the money he needs, enjoys sports and hunting, manages the family estate, and…

Michael Strogoff

by Jules Verne Read by David Leeson 4.6
This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city…

The Emperor's Candlesticks

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by Kevin Green 4.6
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agre…

The Port of Missing Men

by Meredith Nicholson Read by MaryAnn 4.6
Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as…

The Great Impersonation

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.8
E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales …

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

Uncle Silas

by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Read by Great Plains 4.3
Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery that immerses listeners in a world of suspense and intrigue. The story follows the young heiress, …

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

The Power-House

by John Buchan Read by Expatriate 4.1
The Power-House is a novel by John Buchan, a thriller set in London, England. It was written in 1913, when it was serialised in Blackwood's …

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious s…

The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Emma Orczy Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the French Revolution, The Scarlet Pimpernel introduces readers to the enigmatic hero known only by h…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.5
The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England w…

The Double Traitor

by E. Phillips Oppenheim Read by Tom Weiss 4.2
The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continue…

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