Performance audiobooks

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Old Acquainance

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A good action story about an escaped convict and the two women in his life. When it started a girls wedding and New Years Eve were only six hours away and Philip Marlowe didn’t think the bride-to-be would make either one of them but that was before he ran up against the slot machine operator, the escaped convict and above all the old acquaintance. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Case of the Midnight Ride

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

Late one evening, Archie and Nero receive a telephone call from a woman named Gloria asking for Archie. She asks for Archie to go straight over to her house on Renaldo Road, West Chester and then the telephone call is ended abruptly by someone putting a hand over her mouth. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: The Case of the Careworn Cuff

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A man with one shirt cuff more worn than the other pays Wolfe $1000 to drop Dorothy Spencer as a client, even though Wolfe never heard of her. Mr. Porter is promptly found murdered. Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe: Case of the Dear Dead Lady

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

A religious fanatic has committed murder...or was it the Shakespearean actor? Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Where There's a Will

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Bizarre enthusiasm, unusual inheritors, $300,000 and a map are some of the details that made the radio broadcast perfect. When the will was read, everybody figured she'd been crazy when she wrote it. And that included me. But I changed my mind after spending a night on an island with a pig, a cat and an ape. Because in reality, they were people. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Unfair Lady

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

In a Mexican diamond mine, Detective Philip Marlowe must knab a thief! 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 an early grave. There’s no other end, but they never learn. Let me give you an example. Philip Marlowe was hired to find a thief and he did, a thousand miles... Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: The Heat Wave

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Why is The Heat Wave, a burlesque dancer wearing a golden mask? Marlowe's been hired to find out. Murder tries a strip tease! Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade: The Betrayal in Bumpass Hell Caper

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Sam's quiet evening with a western novel is rudely shattered. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Missing Heiress

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Sherlock Holmes searches for the daughter of a Canadian multimillionaire. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Miss Dobney, Lady Frances Carfax's former housekeeper, who was used to get letters from her mistress on a regular basis, is alarmed by her sudden silence. She asks Sherlock Holmes to ascertain her whereabouts. The detective is quite worried about this young woman, who's travelling on her own, carrying valuable jewellery with her. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Lady Waverly's Imitation Pearls

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Holmes takes on a case involving the theft of imitation pearls and a silver plated tea service, while Watson considers the whole investigation a waste of time. Read more

Fairytales on Stage

By: Julie Meighan

Narrated by: Deryn Oliver

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

This book is a collection of plays that have been adapted from well-known fairy tales. They can be used as performance plays, readers theatre or just used to promote reading in groups. Each play is between five and ten minutes long. The plays can be adapted to suit the various needs of the group. The cast list is very flexible. Characters can be... Read more

The Adventures of Nero Wolfe

By: J. Donald Wilson

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nero Wolfe was a detective radio show whose stories were derived from the work of Rex Stout. Nero, an extremely genius guy who stands 5’11”, solved crimes without having to go to the crime scenes. His assistant Archie Goodwin did all the gathering of clues and interviewing of witnesses, which were then interpreted by Nero at home. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Philip Marlowe was a fictional private eye created by author Raymond Chandler. He was first seen as portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in the 1939 classic feature “The Big Sleep”. The fictional detective was introduced to the radio in 1947 and, by 1949, was the most popular radio detective. Read more

The Adventures of Sam Spade

By: Jason James & Robert Tallman

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The Maltese Falcon. The radio series ran from 1946 through 1951. Read more

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By: Dennis Green & Anthony Boucher

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

This old-time radio show was based on Arthur Conan Doyle's famous novel and character of the same name. Each episode featured an old mystery from Holmes' past and was told by the sponsor's spokesman for the week. The series aired at various dates from 1930 to 1956 and starred actors such as Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. Read more

The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: Name to Remember

By: Gene Levitt, Robert Mitchell & Raymond Chandler

Narrated by: Full Cast

Length: 29 minutes

Abridged: No

Eddie Mallet is being followed by a gorilla in a tee shirt with muscles out-to-here. Marlowe is hired to find out why, but not soon enough to save Eddie. The partner from Mexico City, the stranger dead in Nevada and the man with the cauliflower ear all added up to a corpse on a concrete floor but Philip Marlowe couldn’t figure why until he found... Read more

Come una preghiera

By: Diego Maenza

Narrated by: Patrizia Barrera

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

Un prete tormentato dalla sua carnalità. Si tratta di un’ inutile lotta contro Satana o una prova inviatagli dal Cielo? Una novizia Incinta. E’ una trasgressione alle norme morali o un miracolo Divino contro lo scetticismo umano? Il libro è una mirabile carrellata di personaggi a volte di elevata spiritualità, a volte miseri nelle loro debolezze... Read more

Remote

By: John Long & The Dasilva Theatre Players

Narrated by: John Long & The Dasilva Theatre Players

Length: 12 minutes

Abridged: No

In a guest room at a hotel in Columbus Ohio two haggard business men in suits, walk in and throw down their briefcases on the bed, stretching and removing their coats. They turn on the T.V. and surf the news channels. They notice their hotel is on live news channels across the country and quickly find out they are stuck in the middle of a... Read more

Bill Gates on where the COVID-19 pandemic will hurt the most

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has spent the last few decades working to
improve global health through his philanthropic organization, the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation. One area of focus has been reducing the spread of
infectious disease -- a mission taking on new significance amid the global
COVID-19 pandemic. Gates joins Judy Woodruff... Read more

What Dr. Fauci Wants You to Know About Face Masks and Staying Home As Virus Spreads

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

As COVID-19 spreads across the country, there has been some debate over the
need for government stay-at-home orders, whether Americans should be
wearing masks in public and how the coronavirus spreads. Dr. Anthony Fauci
of the National Institutes of Health, one the key health officials on
President Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, joins Judy... Read more

Author Erik Larson Looks Back At Another Time of Crisis: London’s Blitz

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

In previous books like "The Devil in the White City" and "Isaac's Storm,"
bestselling author Erik Larson has used everyday people to chronicle
historical events. But his latest offering, "The Splendid and the Vile: A
Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance during the Blitz," explores Winston
Churchill's turbulent first year as Britain's wartime... Read more

Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection

By: John Cleese & Connie Booth

Narrated by: Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth, Full Cast, John Cle...

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Welcome to Fawlty Towers, where attentive hotelier Basil Fawlty and his charming wife Sybil will attend to your every need - in your worst nightmare. With hapless waiter Manuel and long-suffering waitress Polly on hand to help, anything could happen during your stay - and probably will.

John Cleese’s special introductions to each episode are... Read more

Asian Americans Report Rise In Racist Attacks Amid Pandemic

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

As coronavirus has spread across the U.S., so have reports of violence
against people of Asian descent, and the FBI warns a surge in hate crimes
could be yet to come. These fears have led to the creation of a website for
reporting such attacks -- and it has registered more than 1,000 incidents
in less than two weeks. Amna Nawaz talks to Cynthia... Read more