Performance audiobooks

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Report on Edith Hamilton Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam has been called in by Dr Ludwig Zoyer, a psychoanalyst. He has a client named Mrs. Hamilton who has suffered from a complete nervous collapse because she thought she recognized a certain person crossing the street, a person she had not seen for years. Three years ago Mrs. Hamilton's son, Carter, died under mysterious circumstances. The woman... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Battles of Belvedere

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam is greeted on his arrival on Belvedere island by Sharma Leslie. She is the foster daughter of Jonathan Battle, the man who has hired Sam. Jonathan Battle is worried about a man that he was once involved with and whom had committed murder. Jonathan had stopped him before he could finish his work and his now enemy had then devoted his life and... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Queen Bee Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam has been hired by Miss Elizabeth Collie to investigate a number of thefts that have occurred at the Miss Wigginson School for Girls. Herself and Ursula Cavanagh, one of the board directors, have decided that they know who the culprit is, they just have to prove it. They have no evidence but they just want Sam to prove that their suspicions... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Indian Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam is hired to find a drunken engineer, who is promptly found scalped. A valuable wampum belt is stolen. Indian Chief Black Cloud wants to employ Sam Spade to find someone. Chief Black Cloud owns 130 oil wells and had come to San Francisco to talk to Clarence Hobart from a big engineering company then after four days Hobart has disappeared. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Tears of Night Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam was in his office when Miss Maimie Gaygan, a beautiful woman unfortunately with a heart of stone, demanded that he accompany her to Johnny McCall's illegal gambling hall. There he met Johnny who wanted Sam to take the Tears of Night necklace back to its owner, Miss Daphne Arlington, who had put the necklace down as collateral until she could... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Champion Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A wealthy man hires Spade to protect him from his former employee, who is just out of prison after five years. Sam is at the morgue. Someone has been killed and Sam knows who did it. But, he wishes that he didn't… Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Lawless Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Spade dictates a letter through Effie to John M Lawless a known gangster who hired Sam Spade yesterday. The subject was Joe Moralis. Flashback to when San Francisco was recovering from VJ Day and crime was practically at a standstill because the number one competitor in the west coast mob’s had just been wiped in a hit and run accident out... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Calcutta Trunk Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Spade receives a visit from Marsha Hopkins who tells him that she is dreadfully worried about her sister Miss Constance Pendleton who has become involved with a scoundrel and is planning on marrying him. Miss Hopkins knows that this man is only interested in her Constance’s money and is convinced that after the ceremony he is going to kill her. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: Sam and Psyche

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

At a construction site, Bill Woods, the foreman, is shot dead while he's on the 20th floor. For the second week, Richard Kollmar is not heard during the program. Blackie does manage to croak a few words while sick in bed (possibly voiced by Jackson Beck). Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Feminine Touch

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder on a motorcycle, as Marlowe goes to work for a millionaire trying to protect his daughter. An iron skull was their trademark, their business was climbing walls and it was all done on wheels at 70 miles an hour but that was a cinch for the death cheaters until they felt murder and a feminine touch… Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Key Man

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlowe is hired to keep a man from getting killed, he fails miserably. In waddles The Hippo, who always laughs, even with a gun in his hand. Marlowe is shot! 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 the grave. There’s no other end but they never learn. This time a... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Cloak of Kamehameha

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hawaiian caper on the trail of the fabulous historic relic. Marlowe finds murder and intrigue...including a dead Philip Marlowe, found in a lily pond! A good dramatic conclusion on the Pali of Oahu. It started at dawn in a Los Angeles taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the pacific all because of a dustman with $50,000, a... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquainance

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A good action story about an escaped convict and the two women in his life. When it started a girls wedding and New Years Eve were only six hours away and Philip Marlowe didn’t think the bride-to-be would make either one of them but that was before he ran up against the slot machine operator, the escaped convict and above all the old acquaintance. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Case of the Disappearing Diamonds

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Willie Inch needs Wolfe's help, He's a professional sneak thief accused of the murder of wealthy Mrs. Florence Avery Marsh. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Case of the Midnight Ride

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one evening, Archie and Nero receive a telephone call from a woman named Gloria asking for Archie. She asks for Archie to go straight over to her house on Renaldo Road, West Chester and then the telephone call is ended abruptly by someone putting a hand over her mouth. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Careworn Cuff

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A man with one shirt cuff more worn than the other pays Wolfe $1000 to drop Dorothy Spencer as a client, even though Wolfe never heard of her. Mr. Porter is promptly found murdered. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Case of the Dear Dead Lady

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A religious fanatic has committed murder...or was it the Shakespearean actor? Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Lady Waverly's Imitation Pearls

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes takes on a case involving the theft of imitation pearls and a silver plated tea service, while Watson considers the whole investigation a waste of time. Read more

Come una preghiera

By: Diego Maenza

Narrated by: Patrizia Barrera

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Un prete tormentato dalla sua carnalità. Si tratta di un’ inutile lotta contro Satana o una prova inviatagli dal Cielo? Una novizia Incinta. E’ una trasgressione alle norme morali o un miracolo Divino contro lo scetticismo umano? Il libro è una mirabile carrellata di personaggi a volte di elevata spiritualità, a volte miseri nelle loro debolezze... Read more

Remote

By: John Long & The Dasilva Theatre Players

Narrated by: John Long & The Dasilva Theatre Players

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a guest room at a hotel in Columbus Ohio two haggard business men in suits, walk in and throw down their briefcases on the bed, stretching and removing their coats. They turn on the T.V. and surf the news channels. They notice their hotel is on live news channels across the country and quickly find out they are stuck in the middle of a... Read more

Bill Gates on where the COVID-19 pandemic will hurt the most

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spent the last few decades working to
improve global health through his philanthropic organization, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. One area of focus has been reducing the spread of
infectious disease -- a mission taking on new significance amid the global
COVID-19 pandemic. Gates joins Judy Woodruff... Read more

What Dr. Fauci Wants You to Know About Face Masks and Staying Home As Virus Spreads

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As COVID-19 spreads across the country, there has been some debate over the
need for government stay-at-home orders, whether Americans should be
wearing masks in public and how the coronavirus spreads. Dr. Anthony Fauci
of the National Institutes of Health, one the key health officials on
President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, joins Judy... Read more

Author Erik Larson Looks Back At Another Time of Crisis: London’s Blitz

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In previous books like "The Devil in the White City" and "Isaac's Storm,"
bestselling author Erik Larson has used everyday people to chronicle
historical events. But his latest offering, "The Splendid and the Vile: A
Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz," explores Winston
Churchill's turbulent first year as Britain's wartime... Read more

Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection

By: John Cleese & Connie Booth

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Full Cast, John Cle...

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Fawlty Towers, where attentive hotelier Basil Fawlty and his charming wife Sybil will attend to your every need - in your worst nightmare. With hapless waiter Manuel and long-suffering waitress Polly on hand to help, anything could happen during your stay - and probably will.

John Cleese’s special introductions to each episode are... Read more