Short Stories audiobooks

The Beard

By: Hugh Walpole

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole (1884-1941) was a New Zealand-born English novelist, famous for his skill at scene setting and vivid plots. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s and remains popular to this day.

"The Beard" is the touching and insightful tale of a narcissistic and pompous father who is struggling to raise his pubescent... Read more

Crooked House - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

After the Funeral - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Sparkling Cyanide - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Hickory Dickory Dock - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Destination Unknown - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Cat Among the Pigeons - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

A Pocket Full of Rye - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

4.50 From Paddington - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

They Do It With Mirrors - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Hasler

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Moving Finger - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Hasler

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Man in the Brown Suit - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Peril at End House - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

N or M? - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Death in the Clouds - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Appointment With Death - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

They Came to Baghdad - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Stately Holmes

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of celebrated novels featuring the unique partnership between Mary Russell and the inimitable Sherlock Holmes. None other than Lee Child, himself no stranger to the bestseller list, has described King's beloved series as "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."... Read more

Mary's Christmas

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the preeminent figures in the realm of mystery fiction, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King is perhaps most widely celebrated for her works featuring the amiable, if often contentious, partnership between Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. From the collection Mary Russell's War, "Mary's Christmas" and "Stately Holmes" deliver... Read more

Lucas y Alex

By: Hernán Casciari

Narrated by: Hernán Casciari

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Dice el autor: "En una época mi casa daba a un jardín de infantes. A veces me fumaba un cuete y me quedaba mirando a los nenitos en el recreo. El ruido del patio lleno de chicos me hacía bien, me relajaba. Cuando sonaba el timbre y los nenes salían en bandada, yo buscaba con los ojos a dos en particular, de sala celeste. Uno gordito y el otro... Read more