Victorian True Crime

Product List
  • Regular price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    • How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
    • By: Judith Flanders
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • In this fascinating exploration of murder in 19th-century England, Judith Flanders examines some of the most gripping cases that captivated the Victorians and gave rise to the first detective fiction....

    Regular price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.79 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • A Victorian Tale of Deception, Adultery & Arsenic
    • By: Kate Colquhoun
    • Narrated by: Maggie Mash
    • Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James Maybrick....

    Regular price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $25.00 or 1 credit

    • By: Donald Rumbelow
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow's classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions, and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $20.25 or 1 credit

    • The True Story of the Eastburn Family Murders
    • By: Scott Whisnant
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • On Mother's Day, 1985, the bodies of Kathryn Eastburn and her two young daughters were found in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Katie, an air force captain's wife, had been raped and stabbed to death. Kara and Erin's throats had been slit....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
  • Regular price: $63.90 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $63.90 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
    • By: Lisa Rosner
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • On Halloween night, 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • Conspiracy, Revenge and the Phoenix Park Murders That Stunned Victorian England
    • By: Julie Kavanagh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin....

    Regular price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.49 or 1 credit

    • The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer
    • By: Kate Summerscale
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 332 ratings
    • Kate Summerscale has uncovered a fascinating true story of murder and morality. It is not just a meticulous examination of a shocking Victorian case but also a compelling account of its aftermath....

    Regular price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.19 or 1 credit

    • By: Bram Stoker
    • Narrated by: Robin Sachs
    • Length: 28 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • A new compilation of Bram Stoker’s cult vampire novels for the 100th anniversary of his death....

    Regular price: $39.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $39.95 or 1 credit

    Included in Plus membership
    • Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury
    • By: Sinclair McKay
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Number 4 Euston Square was a respectable boardinghouse, like many others in Victorian London. But beneath this ordinary veneer lurked a murderous darkness....

    Regular price: $31.16 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $31.16 or 1 credit

    • The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
    • By: Hallie Rubenhold
    • Narrated by: Louise Brealey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,321 ratings
    • Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London - the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper....

    Regular price: $17.49 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $17.49 or 1 credit

    • A Penguin Audiobook Original
    • By: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Narrated by: Kate Winkler Dawson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 127 ratings
    • This audio original from the acclaimed author of American Sherlock, and the host of multiple true-crime podcasts, including Wicked Words, tells the fascinating story of the supernatural, and the club that united some of the world's most illustrious thinkers....

    Regular price: $13.50 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $13.50 or 1 credit

    • The Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
    • By: Kate Summerscale
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 968 ratings
    • In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. Scotland Yard sent its best man to investigate, Inspector Jonathan Whicher....

    Regular price: $21.04 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.04 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $42.99 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $42.99 or 1 credit

  • Regular price: $15.73 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.73 or 1 credit

    • The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
    • By: Dean Jobb
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In the span of fifteen years, Dr. Thomas Neill Cream murdered as many as ten people in the United States, Britain, and Canada, a death toll with almost no precedent. Poison was his weapon of choice. Largely forgotten today, this villain was as brazen as the notorious Jack the Ripper....

    Regular price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $21.83 or 1 credit

    • By: Christina Croft
    • Narrated by: Tim Fearon
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • Among over 80 women whose stories appear in this book, some were tragic; some were evil; some were mad; and several were undoubtedly innocent of the murders for which they were hanged....

    Regular price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $19.95 or 1 credit

    • An Account of the Ripper Killings by Dr. John H. Watson
    • By: Lyndsay Faye
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3,530 ratings
    • Breathless and painstakingly researched, this is a stunning debut mystery in which Sherlock Holmes unmasks Jack the Ripper.....

    Regular price: $15.56 or 1 credit

    Sale price: $15.56 or 1 credit