Bestsellers
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The Things They Carried
- By: Tim O'Brien
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,491
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Performance12,005
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Story11,971
The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing.....
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Heavy Load
- By Mel on 10-28-13
By: Tim O'Brien
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The News from Dublin
- Stories
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Derbhle Crotty, Darragh Shannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...
By: Colm Toibin
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Murder on the Orient Express
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,800
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Performance12,557
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Story12,519
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...
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Masterful Performance!
- By Kindle Customer on 01-26-14
By: Agatha Christie
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
- A Collection of Outlander Fiction
- By: Diana Gabaldon
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie, Allan Scott-Douglas, Davina Porter, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,273
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Performance3,786
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Story3,772
The author presents a collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. "Beseiged": Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main...
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Two new works and five previously published
- By Mary R on 07-03-17
By: Diana Gabaldon
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Lord Edgware Dies
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,134
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Performance1,014
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Story1,007
When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police...
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AKA 13 At Dinner a Somewhat Predictable Mystery
- By Tomsde on 08-20-12
By: Agatha Christie
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Ireland
- A Novel
- By: Frank Delaney
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,332
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Performance1,687
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Story1,675
“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.” — Philadelphia Inquirer This New York Times bestselling epic is...
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Best Listen In A Quite While
- By John on 03-17-05
By: Frank Delaney
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The Things They Carried
- By: Tim O'Brien
- Narrated by: Bryan Cranston
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,491
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Performance12,005
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Story11,971
The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing.....
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Heavy Load
- By Mel on 10-28-13
By: Tim O'Brien
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The News from Dublin
- Stories
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrated by: Derbhle Crotty, Darragh Shannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...
By: Colm Toibin
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Murder on the Orient Express
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Dan Stevens
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall13,800
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Performance12,557
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Story12,519
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...
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Masterful Performance!
- By Kindle Customer on 01-26-14
By: Agatha Christie
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Seven Stones to Stand or Fall
- A Collection of Outlander Fiction
- By: Diana Gabaldon
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie, Allan Scott-Douglas, Davina Porter, and others
- Length: 24 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4,273
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Performance3,786
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Story3,772
The author presents a collection of seven short stories set in the Outlander universe, never before published together, including two original stories and featuring beloved character Jamie Fraser. "Beseiged": Protagonist is Lord John Grey, a secondary character in the Outlander novels and a main...
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Two new works and five previously published
- By Mary R on 07-03-17
By: Diana Gabaldon
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Lord Edgware Dies
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,134
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Performance1,014
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Story1,007
When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police...
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AKA 13 At Dinner a Somewhat Predictable Mystery
- By Tomsde on 08-20-12
By: Agatha Christie
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Ireland
- A Novel
- By: Frank Delaney
- Narrated by: Frank Delaney
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,332
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Performance1,687
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Story1,675
“Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.” — Philadelphia Inquirer This New York Times bestselling epic is...
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Best Listen In A Quite While
- By John on 03-17-05
By: Frank Delaney
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Cards on the Table
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall1,614
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Performance1,472
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Story1,469
In Agatha Christie’s classic mystery, Cards on the Table, the wily Hercule Poirot is on the case when a bridge night turns deadly Mr. Shaitana is famous as a flamboyant party host. Nevertheless, he is a man of whom everybody is a little afraid. So when he boasts to Hercule Poirot that he...
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this is a great Christie mystery
- By Calliope on 01-21-14
By: Agatha Christie
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The History of Sound
- Stories
- By: Ben Shattuck
- Narrated by: Ben Shattuck, Zachary Chastain, Paul Mescal, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall209
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Performance197
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Story197
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING PAUL MESCAL AND JOSH O’CONNOR Winner of the Story Prize Spotlight Award Shortlisted for the 2025 Mark Twain Award Longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction & the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction An ALA Notable Book One of...
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Gorgeous written connected stories
- By Briana R. on 07-22-24
By: Ben Shattuck
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Curtain: Poirot's Last Case
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall804
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Performance740
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Story739
The legendary detective saves his best for last as he races to apprehend a five-time killer before the final curtain descends in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case, the last book Agatha Christie published before her death. The crime-fighting careers of Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings have come...
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A Wonderful Finale.
- By Mari on 11-10-13
By: Agatha Christie
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Dumb Witness
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,354
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Performance1,231
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Story1,228
In Agatha Christie’s Dumb Witness, Hercule Poirot investigates the very suspicious death of an elderly spinster who, fearing the very worst, had written to the great detective prior to her demise. Everyone blamed Emily Arundell’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky...
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A wonderful Christie classic!
- By Kathi on 02-04-18
By: Agatha Christie
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Heathcliff Lennox - France 1918
- By: Karen Baugh MENUHIN
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst -Phillips
- Length: 1 hr
- Unabridged
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Overall680
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Performance615
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Story614
Spring, 1918. The Great War is at a crucial stage, the Germans are making one last push into France, and the Allies are struggling to hold them back. Battle lines are shifting, and men, and their machines, are being sent up and down the front to shore up defenses....
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Another great Heathcliff Lennox
- By Katydid65 on 06-04-21
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The Private Life of Spies and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even
- Stories
- By: Alexander McCall Smith
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance54
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Story54
From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story collection: half spy stories, half tales of revenge, all highlight the kinder, funnier, and gentler side of espionage and retribution. In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith...
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McCall Smith does it again!
- By CBI on 12-11-23
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Three Act Tragedy
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,007
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Performance902
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Story900
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...
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The Queen of Crime at her peak.
- By Jane on 10-17-12
By: Agatha Christie
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Train Dreams and Jesus' Son
- By: Denis Johnson
- Narrated by: Will Patton
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall244
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Performance214
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Story217
Here are two complete audiobooks by Denis Johnson, narrated by Will Patton. Listen to both Train Dreams, and Jesus’ Son, as well as an excerpt from Denis Johnson’s National Book Award-winning Tree of Smoke. In Train Dreams Robert Grainer is a day laborer in the American West at the start of...
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Two Brilliant Novellas Read Brilliantly
- By Darwin8u on 10-07-15
By: Denis Johnson
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The Moving Finger
- A Miss Marple Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,290
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Performance1,159
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Story1,157
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...
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My favorite Miss Marple Mystery
- By ButterflyRose on 07-20-15
By: Agatha Christie
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Voice of the Fire
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Alan Moore
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake, Jason Williamson, Toby Jones, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall52
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Performance50
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Story50
Northampton. The center of England. Twelve extraordinary characters transport you through 6,000 years of astonishing history....
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Voice of the Fire -- A Conjuring Through Chant
- By E F on 06-30-21
By: Alan Moore
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A Caribbean Mystery
- A Miss Marple Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall717
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Performance649
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Story644
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 murderer As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine, she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism...
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the voices ruined the story
- By Iris Miechelle Burns Engel on 10-27-19
By: Agatha Christie
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Cat Among the Pigeons
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall747
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Performance678
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Story677
Murder is part of the curriculum at an exclusive school for girls in Agatha Christie’s Cat Among the Pigeons, as the intrepid Poirot sets out to bring a stealthy killer to justice. Late one night, two teachers investigate a mysterious flashing light in the sports pavilion while the rest of the...
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Christie at Her Best
- By pko on 01-20-13
By: Agatha Christie
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Appointment with Death
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,068
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Performance962
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Story956
The unstoppable Hercule Poirot finds himself in the Middle East with only one day to solve a murder in the classic Agatha Christie mystery, Appointment with Death. Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on...
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So entertaining !
- By RueRue on 08-25-15
By: Agatha Christie
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Hallowe'en Party
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,146
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Performance1,888
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Story1,880
Inspiration for the major motion picture A Haunting in Venice, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh, coming in 2023! In this authorized edition from the Queen of Mystery, a Halloween Party turns deadly, and it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murderer. At a Halloween party, Joyce—a...
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A great Mystery
- By Gudrun on 10-26-16
By: Agatha Christie
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At Bertram's Hotel
- A Miss Marple Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall981
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Performance887
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Story879
At Bertram’s Hotel the intrepid Miss Marple, on holiday in London, must solve a deadly mystery at the end of a chain of very violent events. An old-fashioned London hotel is not quite as reputable as it makes out to be.… When Miss Marple comes up from the country for a holiday in London, she...
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You Won't Want to Check Out Early, But...
- By John on 02-23-15
By: Agatha Christie
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Elephants Can Remember
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 5 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall839
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Performance759
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Story753
A classic Hercule Poirot investigation, Agatha Christie’s Elephants Can Remember has the expert detective delving into an unsolved crime from the past involving the strange death of a husband and wife. Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal...
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Somewhat predictable mystery - due to my own fault
- By Sik on 07-21-15
By: Agatha Christie
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Dead Man's Folly
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: David Suchet
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall872
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Performance785
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Story785
When a mock murder game staged for charity threatens to turn into the real thing, the intrepid Hercule Poirot is called in to take part in this Dead Man’s Folly, a classic from the queen of suspense, Agatha Christie. Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village fete, hit upon the novel...
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Suchet does an awesome job
- By P. Johnson on 04-19-16
By: Agatha Christie
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Murder in Mesopotamia
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Anna Massey
- Length: 6 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall839
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Performance770
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Story766
Suspicious events at a Middle Eastern archaeological excavation site intrigue the great Hercule Poirot as he investigates Murder in Mesopotamia, a classic murder mystery from Agatha Christie. Amy Leatheram has never felt the lure of the mysterious East, but when she travels to an ancient site...
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The voice work is abominable!
- By John C Gragg on 06-06-19
By: Agatha Christie
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Death in the Clouds
- A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,054
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Performance962
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Story957
Hercule Poirot must solve a perplexing case of midair murder in Death in the Clouds when he discovers that the woman in seat two of the airborne aeroplane he’s traveling on is quite unexpectedly—and unnaturally—deceased. From seat No. 9, Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his...
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Poirot plays matchmaker while solving a murder
- By Calliope on 12-17-14
By: Agatha Christie
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The Unexpected Guest
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Hugh Fraser
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall917
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Performance818
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Story813
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...
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Excellent Performance by Hugh Fraser
- By Customer on 04-03-16
By: Agatha Christie
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Everything My Mother Taught Me
- Inheritance collection
- By: Alice Hoffman
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,590
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Performance2,153
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Story2,143
In this haunting short story of loyalty and betrayal, a young woman in early 1900s Massachusetts discovers that in navigating her treacherous coming-of-age, she must find her voice first....
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This story is incredible
- By Shumpie on 02-01-20
By: Alice Hoffman
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A Murder Is Announced
- A Miss Marple Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Emilia Fox
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall925
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Performance827
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Story819
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...
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Good story but narrator gets on my nerves
- By Cynthia on 10-14-15
By: Agatha Christie
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Uhtred's Feast
- Inside the World of The Last Kingdom
- By: Bernard Cornwell
- Narrated by: Matt Bates
- Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall208
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Performance194
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Story195
In this engaging social history New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, “the most prolific and successful historical novelist in the world today” (Wall Street Journal), completes his epic Last Kingdom series with this companion book featuring three exclusive short stories and...
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thank you, Bernard Cornwell
- By debra on 02-05-24
By: Bernard Cornwell
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The Body in the Library
- A Miss Marple Mystery
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cole
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,331
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Performance1,181
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Story1,177
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...
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A classic Christie
- By Ginny B on 06-26-13
By: Agatha Christie
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A summer by the sea was the last place Elizabeth Bennet Ashbourne expected to encounter the past she had long set aside. Widowed after a sensible but loveless marriage, Elizabeth accepts her aunt and uncle Gardiner’s invitation to Brighton in hopes that sea air and cheerful company might restore her spirits. Yet the lively promenades and glittering Channel hold an unexpected surprise: a chance meeting with Fitzwilliam Darcy, the gentleman whose proposal she once refused and whose memory she believed safely confined to another chapter of her life. As warm July days unfold along ...
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Step out of the shadow of 221B Baker Street and into the gaslit world of the "Great Detectives." While Sherlock Holmes reigned supreme in the pages of The Strand, he was far from the only mind at work in the fog-choked streets of Victorian London. "Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Rivals, Rogues, and Rationalists of the Golden Age" is a definitive collection of public domain masterpieces that defined the evolution of the modern thriller. From the "ratiocination" of Edgar Allan Poe to the forensic laboratories of Dr. Thorndyke, this anthology gathers the brilliant specialists who refined, ...
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When Mark Stevens, an innkeeper in Victorian London, welcomes Victor Hale Jr. to The Black Swan, he has no idea that this guest may mark the turning point of his life. But who is Victor Hale, really? Why has he chosen this particular inn? And what business has brought him to London at all? Mark must uncover the truth before time runs out. Story #1 in an eight-part series of standalone tales—each set in a different place, a different era, and a different kind of world.
By: Michael Prince
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He Falls in June
- A Pride & Prejudice Summer Novella
- By: Mary Ashbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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When Fitzwilliam Darcy is thrown from his horse on a quiet Hertfordshire lane, he expects inconvenience, not transformation. Forced to remain at Longbourn while his shoulder heals, he finds himself an unexpected guest in the lively Bennet household, surrounded by laughter, disorder, and the spirited woman he once offended beyond repair. Elizabeth Bennet has no intention of allowing proximity to soften her opinion. Darcy’s pride is well remembered, and his presence in her home is surely only temporary. Yet the days that follow reveal a different man: thoughtful, restrained, and quietly ...
By: Mary Ashbourne
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Summer of Second Chances
- A Pride & Prejudice Summer Novella
- By: Mary Ashbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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A summer by the sea was the last place Elizabeth Bennet Ashbourne expected to encounter the past she had long set aside. Widowed after a sensible but loveless marriage, Elizabeth accepts her aunt and uncle Gardiner’s invitation to Brighton in hopes that sea air and cheerful company might restore her spirits. Yet the lively promenades and glittering Channel hold an unexpected surprise: a chance meeting with Fitzwilliam Darcy, the gentleman whose proposal she once refused and whose memory she believed safely confined to another chapter of her life. As warm July days unfold along ...
By: Mary Ashbourne
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Beyond Sherlock Holmes
- Master Sleuths And Master Criminals
- By: Graeme Newman
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 17 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Step out of the shadow of 221B Baker Street and into the gaslit world of the "Great Detectives." While Sherlock Holmes reigned supreme in the pages of The Strand, he was far from the only mind at work in the fog-choked streets of Victorian London. "Beyond Sherlock Holmes: The Rivals, Rogues, and Rationalists of the Golden Age" is a definitive collection of public domain masterpieces that defined the evolution of the modern thriller. From the "ratiocination" of Edgar Allan Poe to the forensic laboratories of Dr. Thorndyke, this anthology gathers the brilliant specialists who refined, ...
By: Graeme Newman