Short Stories audiobooks

The House of Lurking Death

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Throwing on an almost convincing French accent, Tommy is determined to act the Great Detective Hanaud to his and Tuppence’s latest, lovely client. Miss Hargreaves has recently received a box of chocolates from nobody knows who, and, due to her dislike of chocolates, was the only one to not fall afoul of the arsenic-spiked treats. But, Miss... Read more

The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Davenheim, a wealthy financier, leaves his home to mail a letter, then fails to return. The story fills the newspapers and intrigues Hercule Poirot, who challenges Inspector Japp with the claim that he can solve the case before the police, and without leaving his flat. Read more

Jane in Search of a Job

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other StoriesJane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts have been... Read more

The Manhood of Edward Robinson

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories.Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women, and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he immediately buys the sleek red car of his dreams –... Read more

The Rajah’s Emerald

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 39 minutes

Abridged: No

James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and... Read more

The Harlequin Tea Set

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

Waiting for his car to be fixed, Mr. Satterthwaite sits in a tea shop called the Harlequin café, thinking of his friend Harley Quin, whom he hasn’t seen in many years. Then, in a burst of sunshine, the very same Mr. Quin walks through the door, along with his diligent dog, Hermes. Satterthwaite is telling him the very long history of the family... Read more

The Dead Harlequin

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When Mr. Satterthwaite visits a new exhibit at the Harchester Galleries, there is one painting that bears an unusual likeness to a mysterious acquaintance of his, Mr. Quin. In one bold move he purchases the canvas on the spot, and in another invites the artist of “The Dead Harlequin” to dine with him that night, with an empty place at the table... Read more

Yellow Iris

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the phone. After bumping into an old acquaintance, he is invited to... Read more

The Dream

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley. Farley wants him to diagnose his recurring dream of death, in which he shoots himself at precisely 3:28 p.m. Then, a week after dismissing Poirot, the dream becomes real. Each member of the Farley household that... Read more

The Under Dog

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty Lily Margrave is not convinced that Hercule Poirot is needed in the matter of Sir Atwell’s murder. At the request of her employer, Lady Atwell, she has already recounted what happened ten days ago in the Tower Room, and the victim’s nephew has been charged with the murder. Nevertheless, Lady Atwell brings Poirot up to the great house, Mon... Read more

The Mystery of the Blue Jar

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing... Read more

The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal... Read more

The Second Gong

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England, is owned by the last remaining heir and ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays music and times dinner exactly by a resounding gong. Rushing down at the sound of the second—or is it the first?—gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only... Read more

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by... Read more

The Red Signal

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to tell them of the last time he saw the red signal when... Read more

The Witness for the Prosecution

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night... Read more

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington when a lone diner sparks his interest. Like clockwork, the man has eaten at the restaurant on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years, but no one on the staff knows his name. When “Old Father Time,” as they have fondly nicknamed him,... Read more

The Love Detectives

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Satterthwaite and Colonel Melrose are comfortably ensconced in the Colonel’s study when the phone suddenly rings. Someone has been murdered, and, as the county chief constable, the Colonel lets Satterthwaite accompany him to the scene of the crime. The two of them have opposing opinions on why Sir James Dwighton has been bashed over the head... Read more

Further Tales of the City

By: Armistead Maupin

Narrated by: Frances McDormand

Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Narrated by Frances McDormandInspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the CityThe third novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.The calamity-prone residents of 28 Barbary Lane are at it again in this deliciously dark novel of romance and betrayal. While Anna Madrigal imprisons... Read more

News from Heaven

By: Jennifer Haigh

Narrated by: Therese Plummer, Alexander Cendese, Cynthia Dar...

Length: 7 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

In News from Heaven, Jennifer Haigh—bestselling author of Faith and The Condition—returns to the territory of her acclaimed novel Baker Towers with a collection of short stories set in and around the fictionalized coal-mining town of Bakerton, Pennsylvania.Exploring themes of restlessness, regret, redemption and acceptance, Jennifer Haigh... Read more

Nothing Gold Can Stay

By: Ron Rash

Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Robert Petkoff, Prentice Ona...

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From Ron Rash, PEN / Faulkner Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Serena, comes a new collection of unforgettable stories set in Appalachia that focuses on the lives of those haunted by violence and tenderness, hope and fear—spanning the Civil War to the present day. The darkness of Ron Rash’s work contrasts with its... Read more

4:50 From Paddington

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Emilia Fox

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery 4:50 From Paddington, a woman in one train witnesses a murder occurring in another passing one…and only Miss Marple believes her story.For an instant the two trains ran side by side. In that frozen moment, Elspeth McGillicuddy stared helplessly out of her carriage window as a man tightened his grip around a... Read more

The Moving Finger

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Richard E. Grant

Length: 6 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

The indomitable sleuth Miss Marple is led to a small town with shameful secrets in Agatha Christie’s classic detective story, The Moving Finger.  Lymstock is a town with more than its share of scandalous secrets—a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate mail causes only a minor stir.But all that changes when one of the recipients,... Read more

Murder on the Orient Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Dan Stevens

Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

THE MOST WIDELY READ MYSTERY OF ALL TIME—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY KENNETH BRANAGH AND PRODUCED BY RIDLEY SCOTT! “The murderer is with us—on the train now . . .” Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment,... Read more