Art audiobooks

Our Miss Brooks: Grudge Match

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

There's going to be a grudge fight between Walter Denton and Stretch Snodgrass over the hand of fair Harriet Conklin. Walter and Stretch were the best of friends until one night when Walter found out that his best friend had been to the movies with his girlfriend Harriet Conkli. Read more

Night Beat: The Girl From Kansas

By: Larry Marcus

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. This one began with young love and ended with old... Read more

Suspense: Two Sharp Knives

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A story about a bumbling small town assistant police chief who's not as dumb as he seems to be. A wanted man is captured and later found hanging in his cell. The program has a surprise ending. Read more

Night Beat: Harlan Matthews Stamp Dealer

By: Larry Marcus

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star. Stories begin in many different ways. This one began and ended with a confession … a confession to... Read more

Night Beat: Molly Keller

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Randy didn’t have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a twenty year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Blind Justice

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 5.45 am March 6th, 1940 and Pete Salverson owner of the roadside café in West Texas is opening for business. As he sweeps up in the kitchen he hears a sound outside the back door and discovers a beat up and hungry dog there with a strange kind of leash on it like a harness the kind a blind mans dog might wear. When the sheriff turns up he... Read more

Philo Vance Detective: Argyle Murder Case

By: Jackson Beck

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

The Argyle Murder Case opened with the finding of the body of a man dressed in brand new clothing with the exception of a pair of argyle socks. Vance, with only this meagre clue to work on, identifies the body and manages to interview three people, Roger Star owner and feature performer in a theater company, Lila Martin, an actress, and Milton... Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: The Trap

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

The two colleagues were delivering a cargo of car radios valued at $39,000 when their truck is sent on a detour to a dead end. The truck and its cargo is hijacked and Rover and Simms are both needlessly killed. Read more

Night Beat: Otto the Music Man

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Night is when the city comes alive full of promise. Randy stood on the corner watching the world go by cataloguing each and every person and happening when a car came by and clipped a guy holding a black case, knocking him over. Randy went to help him but he was ok and disappeared into the street into a bar called the Glamour Palace. Randy... Read more

Life with Picasso

By: Francoise Gilot & Carlton Lake

Narrated by: Mary Sarah

Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led... Read more

Vanishing Fleece

By: Clara Parkes

Narrated by: Clara Parkes

Length: 5 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way.

Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting... Read more

Night Beat: A Byline for Frank

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand and I filled in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones when the switchboard buzzed me with a personal. Read more

Night Beat: Pay Up or Die

By: Frank Lovejoy, Jeff Corey, Hal March & Shepard ...

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Charlie owed Joe Sligo $3000 from his gambling and Sligo’s motto was pay up or die. Charlie has a family and kids to think about and has been in debt for 6 months. Now he turns to Randy Stone for help. Randy Stone knows that the police are looking for Sligo and tells Charlie his only hope is to let the police know where Sligo is. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Babysitting for Three

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Brooks babysits, which gives everyone the idea that she's sharing a love nest with Mr. Boynton! Although our Miss Brooks teaches English at Madison High School, her problems like those of any other teacher aren’t always confined to purely scholastics ones. There’s Mr. Philip Boynton for instance, the biology teacher for whom Miss Brooks is... Read more

Suspense: Death Went Along For the Ride

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A man driving across country (with a beautiful hitchhiker) is shot at everywhere he goes. Death Went Along For The Ride is a suspense play that tells of fear, suspicion and dangerous adventure on a long highway from California to New York. Read more

Suspense: Of Maestro and Men

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom! Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Candy Man

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It is 4:00 pm April 14th 1947. A prisoner in the jail at Pentland County Texas is being returned to his cell as the visiting hour comes to an end. His name is Paul Abbott, serving out a six-month sentence for petty larson. His cellmate John Sagood has not had a visit for Sagood is being held without bail awaiting trial for murder… Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Broken Spur

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Saturday night, June 5th 1948, time, 10pm. On a small ranch ten miles south of Cranston Irwin County, Texas Milton Thomas was counting a large sum of money preparatory to locking it up for the night. As he was counting his dog Rags appeared to be nervous. Thomas tried to quiet him... Read more

Suspense: Hollywood Hostages

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Two members of a movie crew arrive at a ghost town to shoot a picture. Two desperate criminals have arrived there ahead of the movie crew, but the Hollywood types think the two crooks are a practical joke Read more

Suspense: One Millionth Joe

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

A man is lucky enough to be the one millionth visitor to the Los Angeles airport...or is he? The lucky guy seems to be very interested in that free trip to Brazil, and for a very interesting reason! Al Jessant dreamed up a publicity stunt for the bureau of better business promotion whereby the one-millionth person to walk through the gate at the... Read more

Suspense: A Week Ago Wednesday

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Maude Haskin was living in fear that her husband was going to kill her, but in the papers the headlines stated it was her husband, Harry Haskins who had been murdered a week ago last Wednesday with an ice pick Read more

Suspense: August Heat

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A very hot day finds strange predictions of the future starting to come true. Read more

Suspense: Death on Highway 99

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

When a man kills a stranger in a hit-and-run accident, his not-too-loving wife decides to frame him. Read more

Suspense: John Barbee and Son

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A man and his strangely silent son are on the run from the police. Read more