Short Stories audiobooks

The Under Dog and Other Stories

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet & Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superior collection of short mystery fiction all featuring Hercule Poirot as the investigator. A beautiful heiress... Read more

Some Remarks

By: Neal Stephenson

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

Length: 11 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

“Neal Stephenson has made a name for himself as a writer whose imagination knows no limits.”
—Salon#1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the... Read more

Where the Rivers Flow North

By: Howard Frank Mosher

Narrated by: Pat Bottino

Length: 6 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

These seven striking tales of life in rural New England are both lyrical and captivating. Kingdom County, Vermont, is an isolated vestige of an earlier New England. In its rugged hills, a proud and resourceful people struggle to live on the land that is both their adversary and their life's blood."Within the borders of his fictional kingdom,"... Read more

Oblivion

By: David Foster Wallace

Narrated by: Robert Petkoff

Length: 14 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his.

These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's... Read more

Ellen and the Barber

By: Frank O'Rourke

Narrated by: Mary Woods

Length: 5 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Vividly evoking a small mid-west town during the Great Depression and World War II, Ellen and the Barber introduces us to three strong and surprising young women and the men in their lives: Ellen, who has no good reason to deny her natural instincts; Miriam, torn between the promise of a loving future and the demands of family and home; and... Read more

None So Blind

By: Joe Haldeman

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 9 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

An award-winning visionary and true master of worlds and wonders, the man whom author David Brin calls “one of the best prophetic writers of our times,” once again demonstrates the breathtaking scope and startling power of his imagination, transporting listeners across space and time, into the heart of darkness and the soul of madness.From the... Read more

Rover’s Tales

By: Michael Z. Lewin

Narrated by: Michael Z. Lewin

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

In this collection of short stories, Michael Z. Lewin gives Rover, his canine narrator, a voice that speaks for dogs everywhere. He endows Rover with enough intelligence, spunk, and compassion to combat the injustices committed against his fellow canines by fate, unthinking humans, and even other dogs.Rover is a dog with street smarts, a bit of... Read more

The Long Valley

By: John Steinbeck

Narrated by: Holter Graham

Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

A Penguin Classic

First published in 1938, this volume of stories collected with the encouragement of his longtime editor Pascal Covici serves as a wonderful introduction to the work of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck. Set in the beautiful Salinas Valley of California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for... Read more

The Hollow

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s classic, The Hollow, finds Poirot entangled in a nasty web of family secrets when he comes across a fresh murder at an English country manor.A far-from-warm welcome greets Hercule Poirot as he arrives for lunch at Lucy Angkatell’s country house. A man lies dying by the swimming pool, his blood dripping into the water. His wife... Read more

A Murder Is Announced

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 7 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A Murder is Announced in a small-town newspaper advertisement—and Miss Marple must unravel the fiendish puzzle when a crime does indeed occur.The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn are agog with curiosity when the Gazette advertises “A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m.”A childish... Read more

The Moving Finger

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 5 hours 59 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

A Caribbean Mystery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Hickson

Length: 5 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

The delightful Miss Marple is ensnared in A Caribbean Mystery when a retired military man sparks her curiosity with a photograph and a strange story of a murdererAs Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever... Read more

Three Act Tragedy

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic, Three Act Tragedy, the normally unflappable Hercule Poirot faces his most baffling investigation: the seemingly motiveless murder of the thirteenth guest at dinner party, who choked to death on a cocktail containing not a trace of poison.Sir Charles Cartwright should have known better than to allow thirteen guests... Read more

The Unexpected Guest

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 3 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from Agatha Christie, the original queen of mystery.When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband, gun in her hand. She admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a... Read more

The Secret Adversary

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

From the brilliant pen of Agatha Christie comes the first novel in her Tommy and Tuppence mystery series featuring the beloved sleuthing duo—now a movie on both Acorn TV and PBS.Tommy and Tuppence are young, in love… and flat broke. Restless for excitement, they decide to embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd.—""willing to do... Read more

The Labors of Hercules

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 8 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Like The Labors of Hercules, the twelve cases Poirot must solve in this captivating collection of short crime fiction stories are dangerous, demanding, and positively ingenious.In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet—reasoned the detective—like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its... Read more

The Body in the Library

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Stephanie Cole

Length: 5 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

The iconic Miss Marple must investigate the case of a girl found dead in Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, The Body in the Library.It’s seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing an evening dress and heavy makeup, which is now smeared across her cheeks. But who is she? How did she... Read more

Taken at the Flood

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic puzzler Taken at the Flood, the indefatigable Hercule Poiroit investigates the troubling case of a twice-widowed woman.A few weeks after marrying an attractive widow, Gordon Cloade is tragically killed by a bomb blast in the London blitz. Overnight, the former Mrs. Underhay finds herself in sole possession of the... Read more

Spider's Web

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic from the queen of mystery: Agatha Christie. Read more

Sad Cypress

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

In Agatha Christie’s classic murder mystery Sad Cypress, a woman damned by overwhelming evidence stands accused of murdering her romantic rival, and only Hercule Poirot stands between her and the gallows.Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning:... Read more

Postern of Fate

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 7 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford return in Agatha Christie’s classic Postern of Fate, to investigate a deadly poisoning sixty years after the fact.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of... Read more

Poirot Investigates

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 6 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie.First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the mystery of the absurdly cheap flat . . .a suspicious death in a... Read more

Peril at End House

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 5 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

In the Agatha Christie classic Peril at End House, a young woman who has recently survived a series of very close calls appears to be the target of a dedicated killer—and it’s up to Hercule Poirot to save her life.On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Hercule Poirot is alarmed to hear pretty Nick Buckley describe her recent “accidental brushes with... Read more

Partners in Crime

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Agatha Christie’s Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are Partners in Crime—or rather partners in crime solving—and must demonstrate their deductive skills in a wide range of confounding cases after agreeing to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency.Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are restless for adventure, so when they are asked to take over... Read more