Performance audiobooks

Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin

By: Marilyn Ross

Narrated by: Kathryn Leigh Scott

Length: 6 hours

Abridged: No

Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin (July 1970)

Heiress Betty Ward is worried about her twin sister, who has eloped with Jeremy Frene. She follows them from Paris to Frene estate at Collinwood—but arrives too late!
           
Her twin is dead, victim of a mysterious illness. Her body has been sealed in a crystal coffin and kept in a... Read more

Introducing Morbus Leben

By: Hank Zerbolesch

Narrated by: Hank Zerbolesch

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Zur Eröffnung des vierteiligen Hardboiled-Hörbuch-Spektakels "Morbus Leben – Räuberhörbuch", stellt "Introducing Morbus Leben" die wichtigsten Figuren vor. Read more

The Hard Problem

By: Tom Stoppard

Narrated by: Eddie Cahill, Rosie Fellner, Adhir Kalyan, Desi...

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

Hilary believes fervently that consciousness is more than the sum of our biology. When she receives a position at a prestigious think tank, she develops a novel experiment to prove that humans are intrinsically altruistic, but the results are something she never anticipated.

Includes a post-show discussion with Mark Tramo, a neuroscientist,... Read more

Jonathan's Hope

By: Hans M Hirschi

Narrated by: Vance Bastian

Length: 6 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

Abandoned to freeze to death in a winter forest by his father because of his homosexuality, Jonathan desperately struggles to survive, until he accidentally stumbles upon Dan, who owns a cabin in the woods.Dan has been fighting his own demons since the death of his lover Sean. Having retreated from big city life, he is content to live in... Read more

Hans Christian Anderson's Stories On Stage

By: Julie Meighan

Narrated by: Dani Payne

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The Ugly DucklingThe Money PigThe Emperor’s New ClothesThe Little MermaidThe Brave Tin SoldierThe Princess and the PeaThe Little Match GirlThe SnowmanThumbelinaThe Fir TreeThe Rose Tree and the Snail.The Snowdrop Read more

Dancing With Baptists

By: Ken Bailey

Narrated by: Mike Smith

Length: 5 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in the turbulent sixties of Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Watts riot, and the Beatles, Dancing with Baptists is the story of Greg Henderson, Jr., a young Air Force surgical tech. When Greg makes a promise to Chap, his dying Black chaplain friend, to get Chap’s book, an unflattering history of Southern Baptists and African Americans,... Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Case of the Disappearing Diamonds

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Willie Inch needs Wolfe's help, He's a professional sneak thief accused of the murder of wealthy Mrs. Florence Avery Marsh. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Death is a Golden Arrow

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes is called in by members of an archery club to stop a rivalry from getting out of hand, but it’s not long before Holmes is looking for a murderer. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Case of King Philip's Golden Salver

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The Case Of The King Phillips Golden Salver concerns the strange disappearance of an elaborate golden platter sent to Queen Elizabeth by Philip of Spain. It was of course a priceless historical masterpiece, which belonged by rights with the rest of the crown jewels in the tower of London. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Red-Headed League

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes was a detective series that aired at various dates from 1930 to 1956. It was based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel and character of the same name. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Report on Edith Hamilton Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam has been called in by Dr Ludwig Zoyer, a psychoanalyst. He has a client named Mrs. Hamilton who has suffered from a complete nervous collapse because she thought she recognized a certain person crossing the street, a person she had not seen for years. Three years ago Mrs. Hamilton's son, Carter, died under mysterious circumstances. The woman... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Battles of Belvedere

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam is greeted on his arrival on Belvedere island by Sharma Leslie. She is the foster daughter of Jonathan Battle, the man who has hired Sam. Jonathan Battle is worried about a man that he was once involved with and whom had committed murder. Jonathan had stopped him before he could finish his work and his now enemy had then devoted his life and... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Queen Bee Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam has been hired by Miss Elizabeth Collie to investigate a number of thefts that have occurred at the Miss Wigginson School for Girls. Herself and Ursula Cavanagh, one of the board directors, have decided that they know who the culprit is, they just have to prove it. They have no evidence but they just want Sam to prove that their suspicions... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Indian Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam is hired to find a drunken engineer, who is promptly found scalped. A valuable wampum belt is stolen. Indian Chief Black Cloud wants to employ Sam Spade to find someone. Chief Black Cloud owns 130 oil wells and had come to San Francisco to talk to Clarence Hobart from a big engineering company then after four days Hobart has disappeared. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Tears of Night Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam was in his office when Miss Maimie Gaygan, a beautiful woman unfortunately with a heart of stone, demanded that he accompany her to Johnny McCall's illegal gambling hall. There he met Johnny who wanted Sam to take the Tears of Night necklace back to its owner, Miss Daphne Arlington, who had put the necklace down as collateral until she could... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Champion Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A wealthy man hires Spade to protect him from his former employee, who is just out of prison after five years. Sam is at the morgue. Someone has been killed and Sam knows who did it. But, he wishes that he didn't… Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Lawless Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Spade dictates a letter through Effie to John M Lawless a known gangster who hired Sam Spade yesterday. The subject was Joe Moralis. Flashback to when San Francisco was recovering from VJ Day and crime was practically at a standstill because the number one competitor in the west coast mob’s had just been wiped in a hit and run accident out... Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Calcutta Trunk Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam Spade receives a visit from Marsha Hopkins who tells him that she is dreadfully worried about her sister Miss Constance Pendleton who has become involved with a scoundrel and is planning on marrying him. Miss Hopkins knows that this man is only interested in her Constance’s money and is convinced that after the ceremony he is going to kill her. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: Sam and Psyche

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 27 minutes

Abridged: No

At a construction site, Bill Woods, the foreman, is shot dead while he's on the 20th floor. For the second week, Richard Kollmar is not heard during the program. Blackie does manage to croak a few words while sick in bed (possibly voiced by Jackson Beck). Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Lonesome Reunion

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlowe finds himself in Lonesome, Arizona, on the trail of the loot from a bank robbery. A corpse that wouldn’t stay dead, a pistol with a silencer on it and a fortune in a black satchel spell death for the big city boys when they finally got together in lonesome Arizona. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Feminine Touch

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Murder on a motorcycle, as Marlowe goes to work for a millionaire trying to protect his daughter. An iron skull was their trademark, their business was climbing walls and it was all done on wheels at 70 miles an hour but that was a cinch for the death cheaters until they felt murder and a feminine touch… Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Key Man

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Marlowe is hired to keep a man from getting killed, he fails miserably. In waddles The Hippo, who always laughs, even with a gun in his hand. Marlowe is shot! Get this and get it straight, crime is a sucker's road and those who travel it wind up in the gutter, the prison or the grave. There’s no other end but they never learn. This time a... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Lady in Mink

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The story of a mixed-up girl, and her mixed-up life and her really strange sister. The big fog that clung to Los Angeles made searching for the girl who was going to kill herself slow and uneasy, but in the end I’d have settled for that and more because murder happened twice before I found the lady in mink… Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Cloak of Kamehameha

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A Hawaiian caper on the trail of the fabulous historic relic. Marlowe finds murder and intrigue...including a dead Philip Marlowe, found in a lily pond! A good dramatic conclusion on the Pali of Oahu. It started at dawn in a Los Angeles taxi and wound up that night on a cliff in the middle of the pacific all because of a dustman with $50,000, a... Read more