Mystery & Thriller audiobooks

The Jefferson Key - Abridged

By: Steve Berry

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Four United States presidents have been assassinated—in 1865, 1881, 1901, and 1963—each murder seemingly unrelated and separated by time.

But what if those presidents were all killed for the same reason: a clause in the United States Constitution—contained within Article 1, Section 8—that would shock Americans?
 
This question is what faces... Read more

When in Greece Without Music - Abridged

By: Emma Lathen

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A rollicking good mystery and witty tale of an international finance, Wall Street, money markets, espionage, kidnapping, bankers on the run, archeology, and far more. Thank perhaps Emma Lathen's best, called "The American Agatha Christie" by the New York Times & LA Times plus "The Agatha Christie of Wall Street" by the Wall Street Journal. Read more

Murder to Go Without Music - Abridged

By: Emma Lathen

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Emma Lathen takes into the app n the new world of young entrepreneurs, fast food, franchises, and the takeout world. A prospective merger with an old line insurance company puts the fat in the fire and poisoning and murder follows suit. John Putnam Thatcher, Wall Street banker, gets to the bottom of it by following the money, not the emotion. Read more

Pickup Sticks Without Music-11th John Putnam Thatcher Mystery - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A tale of nature lovers confronting second home developers; hard sell tactics delivering results; first & second wives battles; murders and more. The Sloan is disrupted by John Putnam Thatcher takeing his annual vacation long walk on the Appalachian trail with his mail order zealot friend who run into murder  which Thatcher ultimately... Read more

The Longer the Thread Without Music-13th John Putnam Thatcher - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

John Putnam Thatcher goes to Puerto Rico to settle a jurisdictional battle been International & the Sloan’s inside Garment expert & winds up with murder, in a political contest, industrial sabotage, and more. Rollicking witty insightful fun Read more

Murder Without Icing Without Music-14th John Putnam Thatcher - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The Sloan is advertising on the local New York expansion team broadcasts after doing so previously on symphony events. Thatcher gets involved to prevent President Brad Withers making an outrageous statement and winds up in a murder. Thatcher solves the murder by cutting through the emotions to get to the money cause of the murder Read more

Sweet and Low Without Music-15th John Putnam Thatcher Mystery - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Takes us into the consumer product world of candy, sundries, rack jobbers, displays, TV promotions, non profits, trusts, trustees, commodities, brokers, cocoa, murder, and more. John Putnam Thatcher solves murder again by penetrating the emotions to get down to the money motive Read more

Double Double Oil and Trouble Without Music-17th John Putnam Thatcher Mystery - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

A rollicking good tale about oil power from Saudi Arabia to Houston, funding from Zurich to Wall Street, Kidnapping and murder, and more with John Putnam Thatcher solving the mystery by penetrating the personal and corporate misdirections to identify the money motives to identify the fraud and murderer. Read more

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle - Abridged

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrated by: Edward Hardwicke

Length: 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An unusual sequence of events in "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" leads the legendary Sherlock Holmes to locate the precious jewel owned by the Countess of Morcar. The story is read by a true master, Edward Hardwicke, a talented actor who plays Sherlock Holmes's associate, Dr. Watson, in the popular PBS series Mystery! Read more

Going for the Gold Without Music-18th John Putnam Thatcher mystery. - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is the backdrop of this tale about embezzlement and fraud, gold medals, disco, parting, marriage, and romance with Brad Withers providing one his classic turns, Everett Gabler being Everett, skiing and murder that John Putnam Thatcher solves by following the money trail. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade, Detective, Vol. 2 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Howard Duff, Steven Dunne & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sam Spade was a hard-boiled detective with cold detachment, a keen eye for detail, and unflinching determination to achieve his own justice. The character of Sam Spade was created by writer Dashiell Hammett in 1930 for his crime story The Maltese Falcon, and for most people, the character is closely associated with actor Humphrey Bogart, who... Read more

Green Grow the Dollars Without Music-19th John Putnam Thatcher Mystery - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Emma Lathen and John Putnam Thatcher are in high form, wit, and insights on this astute tale of the importance of gardening to the American people, quotable insights, and resounding conflicts with in private company families in the third generation, small versus large companies, patents and their monopoly rights, the critical importance of low... Read more

The Circular Staircase-1st Mary Roberts Rinehart Mystery - Abridged

By: author

Length: TBA

Abridged: Yes

Rinehart's first American mystery published in 1908, reminding Agatha Christie fans of her first country house English mystery, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, published 12 years later. Rinehart outsold Christie in their mutual lifetime until Rinehart died in 1958. Rinehart was often called "The American Agatha Christie" as was Emma Lathen.... Read more

10: Dunkle Erkenntnis - Kapitel l - Abridged

By: Benjamin Oechsle

Narrated by: Timo Kinzel, Tetje Mierendorf, Sonja Szylowicki...

Length: 1 hour 19 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Als Daniel versucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen Howard und dem Kongo näher zu beleuchten, wird er plötzlich mit seiner Vergangenheit konfrontiert. Sein Gegner hat jedoch vorgesorgt und so bleibt ihm erstmal nur die Flucht. Unterdessen muss Detective Henry Miles erkennen, dass der Fall Howard auch nach dessen Tod noch nicht vorbei ist und er... Read more

Brennendes Grab (Gekürzte Lesung) - Abridged

By: Linda Castillo

Narrated by: Tanja Geke

Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Wer hasste den 18-jährigen Daniel Gingrich so sehr, dass er ihn bei lebendigem Leib verbrannte? Die Nachricht von der brennenden Scheune auf der Gingrich-Farm geht spät am Abend ein. Kate Burkholder macht sich sofort auf den Weg zu der weit außerhalb gelegenen Farm der amischen Familie. Was zunächst nach Brandstiftung aussieht, entpuppt sich... Read more

Rupert Undercover. Ostfriesische Jagd. [Band 2] - Abridged

By: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Narrated by: Klaus-Peter Wolf

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Die Sache hätte auch anders ausgehen können, denkt Rupert, als er in der Sicherheit seines Büros in Ostfriesland sitzt und das letzte Stück Baumkuchen vom Teller fegt. Sein Undercover-Einsatz war mit der Rettung von Kriminaldirektorin Liane Brennecke und einem wilden Showdown im Hafen von Norddeich spektakulär zu Ende gegangen. Nur einer ist... Read more

Vivienne - Abridged

By: Rachel Lawson

Narrated by: Rachel Lawson & The Mortal Coil Players

Length: 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

originally written as separate poems for contests on allpoetry.com I tacked them together to make this epic the story in verse of the Life and Death of Vivienne and the Reaper is part of the story. Read more

Night Shadows - Abridged

By: Ron Ely

Narrated by: Ron Ely

Length: 3 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An exciting first mystery by actor Ron Ely, star of Tarzan and Doc Savage.Jake Sands has had a truly action-packed life as a recoverer of stolen objects and people. His work has made him a very rich man, but he paid a steep price: the murder of his wife and child. Jake now spends his days working out and his nights haunted by memories. One... Read more

جاسوس في الكعبة - Abridged

By: مصطفى عبيد

Narrated by: محمد العربي

Length: 8 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

تدور أحداث الرواية حول قصة حقيقية لحياة «لويس بركهارت» الرحالة والمؤرخ السويسري الذي تنكر في شخصية تاجر مسلم وجاب مصر والشام والحجاز في عصر محمد علي. تقع مقبرته ومقامه أمام باب الفتوح أحد أبواب سور القاهرة القديمة، فهل هو جاسوس تم تجنيده بواسطة الحكومة البريطانية للتجسس على نظام محمد علي والمماليك؟ أم أنه طالب علم ومحب للمغامرة استعان ببريطانيا... Read more

The Ambler Warning - Abridged

By: Robert Ludlum

Narrated by: Scott Sowers

Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Welcome to Robert Ludlum's world...fast pacing, tight plotting, international intrigue." — Cleveland Plain Dealer

In Robert Ludlum's The Ambler Warning, an agent breaks out of a top-security institution where the government has kept him drugged for years only to discover that he's not the person he thinks he is.

On Parrish Island, a restricted... Read more

Jeff Regan, Investigator, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Jack Webb, Frank Graham & a full cast

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Jeff Regan, Investigator came to CBS Radio on July 10, 1948, with Jeff Regan as a tough private eye working for a detective agency run by Anthony J. Lyon. Regan introduced himself on each show with “I get ten a day and expenses. They call me the Lyon’s Eye.”Lyon, portrayed by Wilms Herbert, ran the International Detective Bureau, a small private... Read more

Silent Witness - Abridged

By: Richard North Patterson

Narrated by: Boyd Gaines

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-eight years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide.

Sam Robb, the married father of two, is a local football legend. But he was also the last to see sixteen-year-old Marcie... Read more

Absolute Zero - Abridged

By: Chuck Logan

Narrated by: J.K. Simmons

Length: 5 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: Yes

On one of the coldest nights in Minnesota history, the difference between life and death is literally the blink of an eye for Phil Broker, until recently St. Paul's most successful undercover cop. That blink will convey the urgent warning of a comatose man who knows the dark truth binding Broker to a remarkable cast of characters -- a weary... Read more

The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Abridged

By: Hollywood 360

Narrated by: Tom Conway & Nigel Bruce

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective genius, Sherlock Holmes, came to NBC radio in 1930 with Richard Gordon playing the legendary sleuth. By 1939 Basil Rathbone was heard as Holmes, with Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson. The duo was simultaneously starring in a popular series of Sherlock Holmes features for Twentieth Century Fox and later for... Read more