Free historical mystery books

Historical mysteries solve crimes in another century. A monk in a medieval abbey, a Victorian inspector or a detective in wartime works with the tools and prejudices of the time. You get a clever puzzle and a vivid trip into the past at once. This list shows the ones you can read in full for free.

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Little Women
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Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

1884 · 1896 edition

256 pages

Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

Published 1895

516 pages

Hamlet
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

1877 · 1899 edition

228 pages

Emma
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Emma

Jane Austen

Published 1892

646 pages

Middlemarch
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Middlemarch

George Eliot

Published 1873

308 pages

The Divine Comedy
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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

1870 · 1895 edition

780 pages

Æneid
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Æneid

Virgil

1839 · 1886 edition

160 pages

The Jungle Book
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The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling

Published 1894

230 pages

Vanity Fair
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Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray, Guiffrey

1848 · 1879 edition

700 pages

Bleak house
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Bleak house

Charles Dickens

1858 · 1882 edition

600 pages

Hard Times
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Hard Times

Charles Dickens

Published 1858

494 pages

Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist

Robert Louis Stevenson

Published 1873

676 pages