The Midnight Queen

May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumously.
The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665. Sir Norman Kingsley visits the soothsayer "La Masque" who shows him the vision of a beautiful young lady. Falling madly in love with her, he is astonished to find her only a short time later and saves her from being buried alive. He takes her home to care for her, but while he fetches a doctor, she disappears. Sir Kingsley and his friend Ormistan embark on an adventure to solve the mystery of the young lady - will they ever find her again? (Summary by Availle) (9 hr 23 min)

Chapters

01 - The Sorceress	26:20	Read by Annika Feilbach
02 - The Dead Bride	25:18	Read by Becca B
03 - The Court Page	17:51	Read by Jessi
04 - The Stranger	19:20	Read by Rayne
05 - The Dwarf and the Ruin	20:08	Read by Jessi
06 - La Masque	25:47	Read by Becca B
07 - The Earl's Barge	22:21	Read by Nienke
08 - The Midnight Queen	21:30	Read by Linda Ferguson
09 - Leoline	35:00	Read by Becca B
10 - The Page, the Fires, and the Fall	25:26	Read by Jessi
11 - The Execution	25:19	Read by Nienke
12 - Doom	24:29	Read by Jessi
13 - Escaped	11:53	Read by Dorlene Kaplan
14 - In the Dungeon	38:33	Read by Dorlene Kaplan
15 - Leoline's Visitors	22:55	Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
16 - The Third Vision	30:13	Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
17 - The Hidden Face	22:02	Read by Becca B
18 - The Interview	26:37	Read by MaryAnn
19 - Hubert's Whisper	21:52	Read by Grace Dobson
20 - At the Plague-Pit	31:40	Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
21 - What Was Behind the Mask	30:28	Read by Jessi
22 - Day Dawn	24:00	Read by Melanie
23 - Finis	14:51	Read by Larry Caplan

Reviews

(3 stars)

Elly May

Oh dear. Once again a good adventure /romance was ruined for me by the poor readers struggling manfully with the English language which was not their natural one. In some cases galloping on through difficult words so that the sentence made no sense at all. But if you have endless patience, this is a good story.

Great first reader! Second was TERRIBLE!!

(1 stars)

couldn't get past second reader! Alas!

First comment Readers

(4 stars)

Clearspace

Historical Fiction. A number of readers who read are very kind to volunteer, however many have accents so strong that they need to slow their words down rather than swallow them and contract them so fast that it is impossible to follow the story. As with many English as a Foreign language readers some humility is needed to make themselves comprehensible. Sorry to say this. The overconfidence without prior homework to look up the meanings of some words and check some pronunciations is a fault of many of Librivox volunteers. British place names wrongly pronounced is one easily remedied by having the humility to Google them. In this tale only one place name, Southwark, which is not pronounced South-waark, but Suthuk, strange as that may seem. There is no excuse with Internet checks available to all, for the volunteer readers, including American readers who seem never to check, to read a British located tale with British place-names correctly pronounce. Place-names ending in 'borough' for example. Look it up.

Part Fairy Tale part Mystery

(5 stars)

benefitsingers

This story really has it all. It is like a macabre fairy tale. I do think the characters must have had 7 league boots since they seemed to almost transport themselves from one location to another very quickly. The story is really entertaining and you will think you have it all figured out only to find out you don't. A very entertaining and enjoyable story. Some narration is better than others. This did feature one of my favorites Lars Rolander but his mike had some kind of reverb, which was odd. I just love love his voice though.

A classic romantic adventure story

(1 stars)

Jenny Louise Johansson

and I have to agree that the second reader was bad. Really bad. Another later reader had a delightful german accent easily understood but the hurried style of reader 2 stumbling over words and replacing feeling with volume was quite trying. Didnt manage to finish.

First clip, wonderful reader is Annika Feilbach

(0 stars)

dahszil

I just started listening. The first female reader's voice is a mixture of the lanquid, articulate, lovely, distinguished and when needs be, emotional. I love her british(and perhaps a hint of the continent) or rare Aussie accent without the snarl and whine.

Intriguing book, but...