Romantic mystery adventure
1912
One Wonderful Night
Louis Tracy
7 h 43 min
One murder, one borrowed identity and one extraordinary night in New York change two lives forever.
Availability: On Spotify, Full-cast illustrated audiobook on YouTube
Audiobooks on Spotify
66 fully cast, digitally narrated editions on Spotify, by 43 authors. 61 of them can also be watched free and in full on YouTube as full-cast illustrated or read-along audiobooks. Search or filter the catalogue, then listen on Spotify, watch on YouTube or download the free illustrated reading PDF.
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Romantic mystery adventure
1912
Louis Tracy
7 h 43 min
One murder, one borrowed identity and one extraordinary night in New York change two lives forever.
Availability: On Spotify, Full-cast illustrated audiobook on YouTube
Forensic detective mystery
1909
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 3 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A murder in a locked flat, an impossible weapon and a clue hidden in geometry and ballistics.
Availability: On Spotify, Illustrated and read-along audiobooks on YouTube
Golden Age detective novel
1926
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 5 min · Philo Vance #1
A Wall Street broker is shot in his own armchair, and Philo Vance insists that evidence proves nothing and temperament everything. His first case.
Availability: On Spotify, Read-along audiobook on YouTube
Locked-room mystery novel
1892
Israel Zangwill
5 h 3 min
A lodger is found with his throat cut in a room fastened from the inside, and two detectives read the same facts to opposite ends. The locked-room novel begins here.
Availability: On Spotify, Read-along audiobook on YouTube
Golden Age detective novel
1929
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 36 min · Philo Vance #4
Cock Robin dies with an arrow through his heart, and a killer signing himself THE BISHOP turns nursery rhymes into a deadly game.
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Golden Age detective novel
1927
S. S. Van Dine
9 h 8 min · Philo Vance #2
A Broadway star is strangled behind a bolted door that nobody used. Philo Vance asks for a card table instead of the fingerprints.
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Detective mystery
1894
Arthur Morrison
48 min
Britain's newest torpedo plans vanish from an apparently impossible office.
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Jewel-theft mystery
1926
Henry Kitchell Webster
5 h 44 min
A celebrated pearl necklace vanishes inside a country house, and thirteen-year-old Punch may be the only one taking the clues seriously.
Availability: On Spotify, Full-cast illustrated audiobook on YouTube
Forensic detective mystery
1923
R. Austin Freeman
1 h 2 min · Dr Thorndyke story
A body in a burning hayrick. A dental plate far from the ashes. Thorndyke asks who really died.
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Golden Age detective novel
1928
S. S. Van Dine
10 h 25 min · Philo Vance #3
Behind a high wall on 53rd Street, a family bound together by a will is shot one by one. The coldest and most rigorously built of Vance's cases.
Availability: On Spotify, Read-along audiobook on YouTube
Victorian detective novel
1886
Fergus Hume
9 h 17 min
A dead man is delivered to a Melbourne police station in a cab, and a young Irishman would rather hang than explain his evening.
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Locked-room mystery
1897
L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace
52 min
A circular bedroom conceals a mechanism designed to kill without a witness.
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Locked-room mystery
1925
R. Austin Freeman
56 min · Dr Thorndyke story
Fifteen discs. Two bodies. One strong-room engineered as a death trap.
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Golden Age detective novel
1930
S. S. Van Dine
8 h 59 min · Philo Vance #5
A patron lies dead at the feet of Anûbis in a private Egyptian museum, and Philo Vance calls the evidence too simple.
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Cosmopolitan mystery thriller
1900
William Le Queux
5 h 11 min
A masked warning at Monte Carlo opens the door to murder, stolen money and an international conspiracy.
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Crime novel
1927
Marie Belloc Lowndes
9 h
Ivy Lexton has two minutes alone in a doctor's surgery and a powder puff in her bag. An early English crime story told from the poisoner's side of the door.
Availability: On Spotify, Not on YouTube yet
Railway detective mystery
1912
Victor L. Whitechurch
30 min
A railway death staged as an accident draws Thorpe Hazell into a trail of hidden evidence.
Availability: On Spotify, Illustrated and read-along audiobooks on YouTube
Prison-break detective story
1927
Perley Poore Sheehan
6 h 47 min
A locked punishment cell, a mysterious cat and seven tiny steel saws: a prison escape that opens the door to a far larger conspiracy.
Availability: On Spotify, Full-cast illustrated audiobook on YouTube
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