Performance audiobooks

Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin (July 1970)

Heiress Betty Ward is worried about her twin sister, who has eloped with Jeremy Frene. She follows them from Paris to Frene estate at Collinwood—but arrives too late!
           
Her twin is dead, victim of a mysterious illness. Her body has been sealed in a crystal coffin and kept in a... Read more

Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 5 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Witch's Curse (August 1970)

Against her will, Anita Burgess accompanies her brother Jeffrey to Collinwood. He is determined to get revenge against Quentin Collins who he believes is responsible for his best friend’s death.
           
Pretending friendship toward Quentin, Anita and Jeffrey learn he has established a... Read more

Introducing Morbus Leben

By: Hank Zerbolesch

Narrated by: Hank Zerbolesch

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Zur Eröffnung des vierteiligen Hardboiled-Hörbuch-Spektakels "Morbus Leben – Räuberhörbuch", stellt "Introducing Morbus Leben" die wichtigsten Figuren vor. Read more

The Hard Problem

By: Tom Stoppard

Narrated by: Eddie Cahill, Rosie Fellner, Adhir Kalyan, Desi...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilary believes fervently that consciousness is more than the sum of our biology. When she receives a position at a prestigious think tank, she develops a novel experiment to prove that humans are intrinsically altruistic, but the results are something she never anticipated.

Includes a post-show discussion with Mark Tramo, a neuroscientist,... Read more

Jonathan's Hope

By: Hans M Hirschi

Narrated by: Vance Bastian

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandoned to freeze to death in a winter forest by his father because of his homosexuality, Jonathan desperately struggles to survive, until he accidentally stumbles upon Dan, who owns a cabin in the woods.Dan has been fighting his own demons since the death of his lover Sean. Having retreated from big city life, he is content to live in... Read more

Hans Christian Anderson's Stories On Stage

By: Julie Meighan

Narrated by: Dani Payne

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ugly DucklingThe Money PigThe Emperor’s New ClothesThe Little MermaidThe Brave Tin SoldierThe Princess and the PeaThe Little Match GirlThe SnowmanThumbelinaThe Fir TreeThe Rose Tree and the Snail.The Snowdrop Read more

Dancing With Baptists

By: Ken Bailey

Narrated by: Mike Smith

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the turbulent sixties of Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Watts riot, and the Beatles, Dancing with Baptists is the story of Greg Henderson, Jr., a young Air Force surgical tech. When Greg makes a promise to Chap, his dying Black chaplain friend, to get Chap’s book, an unflattering history of Southern Baptists and African Americans,... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Lady in Mink

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a mixed-up girl, and her mixed-up life and her really strange sister. The big fog that clung to Los Angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and uneasy, but in the end I’d have settled for that and more because murder happened twice before I found the lady in mink… Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Dobney, Lady Frances Carfax's former housekeeper, who was used to get letters from her mistress on a regular basis, is alarmed by her sudden silence. She asks Sherlock Holmes to ascertain her whereabouts. The detective is quite worried about this young woman, who's travelling on her own, carrying valuable jewellery with her. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Missing Heiress

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Betrayal in Bumpass Hell Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam's quiet evening with a western novel is rudely shattered. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Heat Wave

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is The Heat Wave, a burlesque dancer wearing a golden mask? Marlowe's been hired to find out. Murder tries a strip tease! Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Unfair Lady

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In a Mexican diamond mine, Detective Philip Marlowe must knab a thief! Get this and get it straight. Crime is a sucker’s road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or an early grave. There’s no other end, but they never learn. Let me give you an example. Philip Marlowe was hired to find a thief and he did, a thousand miles... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Where There's a Will

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bizarre enthusiasm, unusual inheritors, $300,000 and a map are some of the details that made the radio broadcast perfect. When the will was read, everybody figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it. And that included me. But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a pig, a cat and an ape. Because in reality, they were people. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe was a detective radio show whose stories were derived from the work of Rex Stout. Nero, an extremely genius guy who stands 5’11”, solved crimes without having to go to the crime scenes. His assistant Archie Goodwin did all the gathering of clues and interviewing of witnesses, which were then interpreted by Nero at home. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Philip Marlowe was a fictional private eye created by author Raymond Chandler. He was first seen as portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the 1939 classic feature “The Big Sleep”. The fictional detective was introduced to the radio in 1947 and, by 1949, was the most popular radio detective. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The radio series ran from 1946 through 1951. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This old-time radio show was based on Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel and character of the same name. Each episode featured an old mystery from Holmes' past and was told by the sponsor's spokesman for the week. The series aired at various dates from 1930 to 1956 and starred actors such as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Name to Remember

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Mallet is being followed by a gorilla in a tee shirt with muscles out-to-here. Marlowe is hired to find out why, but not soon enough to save Eddie. The partner from Mexico City, the stranger dead in Nevada and the man with the cauliflower ear all added up to a corpse on a concrete floor but Philip Marlowe couldn’t figure why until he found... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Lonesome Reunion

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlowe finds himself in Lonesome, Arizona, on the trail of the loot from a bank robbery. A corpse that wouldn’t stay dead, a pistol with a silencer on it and a fortune in a black satchel spell death for the big city boys when they finally got together in lonesome Arizona. Read more

Fairytales on Stage

By: Julie Meighan

Narrated by: Deryn Oliver

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a collection of plays that have been adapted from well-known fairy tales. They can be used as performance plays, readers theatre or just used to promote reading in groups. Each play is between five and ten minutes long. The plays can be adapted to suit the various needs of the group. The cast list is very flexible. Characters can be... Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Death is a Golden Arrow

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is called in by members of an archery club to stop a rivalry from getting out of hand, but it’s not long before Holmes is looking for a murderer. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Case of King Philip's Golden Salver

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Case Of The King Phillips Golden Salver concerns the strange disappearance of an elaborate golden platter sent to Queen Elizabeth by Philip of Spain. It was of course a priceless historical masterpiece, which belonged by rights with the rest of the crown jewels in the tower of London. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Red-Headed League

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes was a detective series that aired at various dates from 1930 to 1956. It was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel and character of the same name. Read more