Art audiobooks

The Whistler: Custom Built Blonde

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It was past midnight when Jerry Coonan left the cocktail bar with a tall blond in a mink coat. On the way out he gave the high sign to Red Stafford and Shorty Burton sitting idly at the bar waiting for the tip off and as he guided her out the front door he could see them get off their stools and prepare to leave. Jerry chuckled softly to... Read more

The Whistler: Boiling Point

By: Joe Fugano

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

An idea develops which involves a bridge, until the boiling point is finally reached! Kelly never knew exactly when it was that he decided to kill her. Thinking it over afterwards, he realized that murder is something like a pot boiling over. The fire is underneath for a long time and nothing happens, and then all at once the heat reaches a... Read more

The Whistler: Small Town Girl

By: Gladys Thornton, Audrey Totter, Chester Stratto...

Narrated by: Lawson Zerbe & Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A good story about a cop who discovers that he's living in the same building with a homicidal maniac. Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Man Who Murdered His Wife

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A woman's body is found covered with quicklime. Mrs. Hope Russell seems to have been murdered by her husband...but he was really killed by the Luftwaffe! Read more

Whitehall 1212: The Case of Thomas Applebee

By: Wyllis Cooper

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Thomas A'Becket Appleby has been murdered. His Wife Alma is arrested for the crime, but her young lover confesses to the crime. Read more

Night Beat: The Will of Mrs. Orloff

By: Frank Lovejoy

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

It wasn’t much of a story just an obituary, Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes, heart failure. But what’s natural by killing yourself with a scrubbing brush. It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn’t stopped him on his way out of the building. Read more

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

Our Miss Brooks: Student Banking

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Mrs. Davis uses $25 intended to be deposited in the school savings account to buy Miss Brooks a new dress. Miss Brooks, the English teacher at Madison High School, has been busy, but not busy enough for the warden. She ends up taking responsibility for the students money with disastrous consequences. Read more

Our Miss Brooks: Mr. Boyington's Parents

By: Al Lewis

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Brooks has been named Mother Away From Mother. To most people a warm day in May suggests a drive in the country or a leisurely picnic but to our Miss Brooks who teaches English at Madison High School it has a far different significance... 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

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

Suspense: Fear Paints a Picture

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A young girl about to inherit a fortune, is going mad. A picture of a man in her room comes closer and closer to her. There is a picture hanging on a wall, you look at it casually, an extraordinary picture you’ll say skilfully done, look at those fine brush stokes those superb colors, but isn’t the subject matter a little bizarre? It 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

Suspense: Case History of Edgar Lowndes

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Case History On Edgar Lowndes is a story in which psychiatry is called upon to deal with a sick mind, which has unknowingly been tempted thrice by murder. Thomas Mitchell stars as the millionaire tycoon Edgar Lowndes and Donald Crisp as the psychiatrist Dr Erinson. A railroad magnate visits a psychiatrist with complaints of headaches and bad... Read more

Suspense: Rave Notice

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Lou has collected for the Red Cross and built a TV. The men discuss sailing and girls. Lou wrote a song and wants to sing. Read more

Suspense: A Present for Benny

By: John Dixon Carr

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A comedy/gangster story about two boxes. One box contains an ermine coat, the other has a bomb. Which is which? Read more

Tales of the Texas Rangers: Fool's Gold

By: Eric Freiwald & Robert Schaefer

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

It is shortly after 9 am on the Tuesday after Labour Day 1946. Two men in a late model black sedan cruise slowly along the main street of the town of Live Oak in West Texas casing a bank. Read more

Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos

By: Monica Brown, PhD

Narrated by: Adriana Sananes

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The fascinating Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is remembered for her self-portraits, her dramatic works featuring bold and vibrant colors. Her work brought attention to Mexican and indigenous culture, and she is also renowned for her works celebrating the female form. Brown's story recounts Frida's beloved pets—two monkeys, a parrot, three dogs, two... Read more

Abbott and Costello: Featuring Hal Winters (03/03/1949)

By: Bud Abbott & Lou Costello

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Abbott and Costello talk about Uncle Tom in Egypt. Then they talk about Costello's brother Pat. They talk about President Truman. Lou wants a date with Veola Vonn. Veola wants a date with Burt Lancaster. Hal Winters sings. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of Six Napoleons

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard is baffled by a strange case involving an apparent madman bent on smashing plaster busts of Napoleon. When the case takes a violent turn, the inspector calls in his friend Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant consulting detective. While Lestrade concentrates all his efforts on the murder investigation, Holmes... Read more

Muddy

By: Michael Mahin

Narrated by: Damany Jackson

Length: 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Muddy Waters was never good at doing what he was told. When Grandma Della said the blues wouldn't put food on the table, Muddy didn't listen. And when record producers told him that no one wanted to listen to a country boy playing country blues, Muddy ignored them as well. This tenacious streak carried Muddy from the hardscrabble fields of... Read more

Vincent and Theo

By: Deborah Heiligman

Narrated by: Phil Fox

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

The deep and enduring friendship between Vincent and Theo Van Gogh defined both brothers' lives. As a confidant, champion, sympathizer, and friend, Theo financially and emotionally supported his older brother as the artistic but troubled Vincent struggled to find his path in life as both a painter and a man. Throughout that struggle, the... Read more

Beyoncé

By: Nansubuga Nagadya

Narrated by: Tyla Collier

Length: 2 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Before she was an international superstar and feminist icon, Beyoncé was a girl from Texas who loved to sing and dance. As a member of Destiny’s Child, she climbed the charts as one of the most famous girl groups in history. This launched her solo career, and since then, she’s become an unstoppable force in music and pop culture. Beyond music,... Read more