The Gaslight Alibi
A Victorian Historical Mystery We Solve Murders Mystery Bainbridge Island MysteryBy Cornelia Blackwood
Length12h 43m
About this audiobook
Bainbridge Island, 1889. Sawmill owner Hadley Vance is found hanged in a bolted room with the window painted shut. Seattle detective Verity Locke is telegraphed for, and finds a ledger full of payments to a lighthouse keeper on an island that isn't on any chart.
Present day. Genealogist Ruth Vance buys a box of her great-great-grandfather's ledgers at an estate sale. The names match a historical society board that has guarded the island's founding story for a century—and would like to keep guarding it.
As Verity closes in on a syndicate moving stolen lighthouse lenses through Puget Sound, Ruth uncovers a lens in a society attic and a ledger page hidden in a donated book. Two timelines, one crime: a man hanged after he was already dead.
A Victorian historical mystery for readers of fogbound puzzles and inheritance thrillers.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (27)
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length12 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 26, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tuesday, 12 November, 7.20 a.m. — Vance Sawmill, Bainbridge Island
2Thursday, 14 November, 6.40 a.m. — the Port Madison dock
3Three
4Tuesday, 12 February, 7.15 a.m. — the Eureka ferry, Puget Sound
5Five
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6Six
7Seven
8Eight
9Nine
10Ten
11Eleven
12Saturday, 16 March, 1889, 2.15 p.m. — the Thorne surgery, Winslow
13Thirteen
14Saturday, 21 September, 6.05 a.m. — the Vance sawmill office
15Fifteen
16Sixteen
17Seventeen
18Eighteen
19About the author
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