Hello! I am looking for shorter books/stories (3 to 6 hours or less) that meet the following criteria (or as many as possible). Can be a short story collection!
Genre: historical fiction, historical drama, mystery, suspense, intrigue, spy/political, cozy, classics
Era/History/Setting: Hoping for something fall/winter atmosphere, something cozy, London/England 1800s to 1940s, British Royalty, World War 2, Dickens-like but shorter, doesn't have to fit these just not a modern setting (can be modern or past author)
Length: short up to 6 hours
Plot device: I don't really want any "circle of suspects" unless their aren't too many too keep up with or they are well developed enough characters to remember. Kind of get lost with too many undeveloped characters. (Want something we can get in to easily)
Other: love wit and well written and clever language like Dickens, a story that grabs you early on and doesn't bog down too much, doesn't have to have a lot of action to grab me, just be well written or intriguing, characters that are developed, don't want anything graphic, we listen as a family (my husband and young adult son).
Books we've really enjoyed for examples (some of these are much longer than we have time for now): Murder of Roger Ackroyd, And Then There Were None, Oliver Twist, Christmas Carol, King Solomon's Mines, Thirty Nine Steps (just did this, really enjoyed and short!), Pudding Head Wilson – Mark Twain, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sherlock Holmes (various), Jacob T. Marley – Bennett. We've listened to/read many YA books and enjoyed them: Tale of Despereaux, Hatchet (and other Gary Paulsen books), Winged Watchmen – Hilda Van Stokum, Captain Grey – Avi , Moonfleet – Falkner, Indian in the Cupboard. We have enjoyed hundreds of other books, can't even begin to remember just listing these for ideas of what we like.
Idk if there are books that are similar to the BBC tv series Foyle's War but I feel we would enjoy stories like those.
by International-City75