Meet Barbara Rosenblat
While her style isn’t entirely comedic, Barbara Rosenblat exudes a genuine wit,
which plays especially well in her most popular works.
Top Performances
Greatest Hits
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Murder at an English Séance
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
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Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz.
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People in Glass Houses
- A Harmony Novel, Book 16
- By: Jayne Castle
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, he’s now called the Tarnished Knight by the press. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld, destroying his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House—a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled Joshua’s psychic senses and his memories, but he’s determined to reveal the truth.
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Decent story ruined by awful narrator
- By Susan C. on 05-10-24
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. This first in the series sends Emily on her first case after she successfully persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for the job.
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Masterful writing and incredible narration
- By Barbara on 01-14-12
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.
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Excellent!
- By Trishk on 06-11-04
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Murder at an English Séance
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz.
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People in Glass Houses
- A Harmony Novel, Book 16
- By: Jayne Castle
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, he’s now called the Tarnished Knight by the press. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld, destroying his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House—a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled Joshua’s psychic senses and his memories, but he’s determined to reveal the truth.
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Decent story ruined by awful narrator
- By Susan C. on 05-10-24
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. This first in the series sends Emily on her first case after she successfully persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for the job.
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Masterful writing and incredible narration
- By Barbara on 01-14-12
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.
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Excellent!
- By Trishk on 06-11-04
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The Hippopotamus Pool
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 8
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her loquacious son, Ramses.
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Desert Derring-Do
- By Kay in DC on 02-03-08
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The Falcon at the Portal
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 11
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Join spunky Amelia and her charming family for a thrilling new archaeological adventure in Edwardian Egypt. Even on the joyous occasion of the marriage of their Egyptian "son" David to their beloved niece Lia, trouble finds Amelia and hunky hubby Emerson. And this time it is personal.
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Perhaps Best of Series
- By Kermit on 12-21-05
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The Curse of the Pharaohs
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 2
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody's eye as she returns for her second adventure in archaeology and romantic mystery as recounted in her lively journal, The Curse of the Pharaohs.
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Wonderful!
- By Leanna on 04-20-11
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Crocodile on the Sandbank
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 1
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
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Amelia Peabody inherited two things from her father: a considerable fortune and an unbendable will. The first allowed her to indulge in her life's passion. Without the second, the mummy's curse would have made corpses of them all.
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Nice break from the usual-
- By Carrie on 12-18-04
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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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A safari expedition in Zambia is the disguise Emily employs in order to locate a professional assassin among her fellow explorers. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary man named Cyrus.
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At last!
- By Got My Book on 05-14-11
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The Ape Who Guards the Balance
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 10
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 15 hrs and 7 mins
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Against the romantic backdrop of Edwardian Egypt, the irresistible Amelia Peabody and her charmingly unconventional family prove themselves to be formidable foes of villainy. In The Ape Who Guards the Balance, Amelia must muster all of her considerable skills of detection to unravel a snarled web of stolen archeological treasures, murderous cults, and fallen women.
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Another Wonderful Book in the Series
- By Yvonne Jocks on 11-30-05
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Murder in an English Village
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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The year is 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in the English countryside seems just the ticket. And, honestly, until America comes to its senses and repeals Prohibition, Beryl has no intention of returning stateside and subjecting herself to bathtub gin.
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Must read Historical Mystery
- By Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe on 02-20-18
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Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist whisks the gray-haired agent into a perilous web of intrigue that spreads across the drifting sands of the volatile Middle East. An old CIA friend, Farrell, must collect an inflammatory manuscript smuggled out of Iraq into Jordan. Farrell has a simple request for Emily—provide cover during his trip to Jordan by posing as his fun-loving elderly cousin. But before the plane even lands, danger begins stalking the sprightly Mrs. Pollifax.
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Mrs. Pollifax is my heroine
- By Living Right on 06-27-15
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Second Thief
- Mrs. Pollifax, Book 10
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
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A former CIA operative turned art dealer waits in Italy, wounded and in hiding, for the cavalry. According to his SOS, only Mrs. Pollifax will do....
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Not As Good As The Others I Read
- By Lady M on 05-15-15
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The Deeds of the Disturber
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 5
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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After an adventurous season spent excavating at Dahshoor, and narrowly averting the clutches of the Master Criminal, Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson and her spouse prepare for a quiet summer in England. The social and domestic routine, though interrupted by the precocious escapades of their only child, Ramses, hardly seems much of a challenge for the indomitable Emersons.
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Excellent Narrator
- By Wende on 03-30-05
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The Mummy Case
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 3
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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The indomitable Amelia Peabody and her husband, known to many as "the Father of Curses", are into archaeology and mischief again. This third in the series brings the reader once more into Egypt and the shady world of black market antiquities. The winter excavation season has hardly yet begun when Amelia stumbles onto what looks suspiciously like a ring of thieves.
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Excellent!
- By Leanna on 04-20-11
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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Emily “vacations” at an opulent Swiss resort in the hope of locating nine pounds of hijacked plutonium intended for an atom bomb.
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Mrs Pollifax is a delight
- By Jean on 05-17-13
Editor's Pick
"Smart, snappy, cozy series with sublime narration."
"Barbara Rosenblat is one of my favorite narrators. Nowhere does she elevate a story more than with The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax. Dorothy Gilman started the series in 1970—the story of a garden-club wife from New Brunswick, NJ who joins the CIA in a madcap series of events—and Barbara Rosenblat narrates a dozen titles, all available at Audible. If you love John D. MacDonald or Rhys Bowen, may I suggest your next audio binge?"