Short Stories audiobooks

Cat Among the Pigeons - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

4.50 From Paddington - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Crooked House - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 2 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Destination Unknown - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Mysterious Affair at Styles - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Hickory Dickory Dock - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Murder at the Vicarage - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Hasler

Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Moving Finger - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: John Hasler

Length: 3 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

The Man in the Brown Suit - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Sparkling Cyanide - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Peril at End House - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

N or M? - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Jane Collingwood

Length: 3 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Death in the Clouds - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Roger May

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

They Came to Baghdad - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Joan Walker

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

They Do It With Mirrors - Abridged

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Gabrielle Glaister

Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter with the language targeted at... Read more

Stately Holmes

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 1 hour 13 minutes

Abridged: No

Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of celebrated novels featuring the unique partnership between Mary Russell and the inimitable Sherlock Holmes. None other than Lee Child, himself no stranger to the bestseller list, has described King's beloved series as "the most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today."... Read more

Mary's Christmas

By: Laurie R. King

Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the preeminent figures in the realm of mystery fiction, New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King is perhaps most widely celebrated for her works featuring the amiable, if often contentious, partnership between Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. From the collection Mary Russell's War, "Mary's Christmas" and "Stately Holmes" deliver... Read more

Lucas y Alex

By: Hernán Casciari

Narrated by: Hernán Casciari

Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

Dice el autor: "En una época mi casa daba a un jardín de infantes. A veces me fumaba un cuete y me quedaba mirando a los nenitos en el recreo. El ruido del patio lleno de chicos me hacía bien, me relajaba. Cuando sonaba el timbre y los nenes salían en bandada, yo buscaba con los ojos a dos en particular, de sala celeste. Uno gordito y el otro... Read more

Ghost Stories

By: E F Benson

Narrated by: Mark Gatiss

Length: 5 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones) reads chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F. Benson.

There's nothing sinister about a London bus. Nothing supernatural could occur on a busy train platform. There's nothing terrifying about a little caterpillar. And a telephone, what could be scary about that?... Read more

After the Fireworks

By: Aldous Huxley & Gary Giddins

Narrated by: Michael Page & Tom Parks

Length: 12 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley, comes his great novella, set in Rome, about a writer’s affair with a mysterious young fan—now back in print for the first time in the U.S. in more than seventy years and also featuring two other acclaimed short works, plus an original introduction from noted critic Gary... Read more

Public Library and Other Stories

By: Ali Smith

Narrated by: Ali Smith

Length: 4 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

From the acclaimed, award-winning author: Why are books so very powerful? What do the books we’ve read over our lives—our own personal libraries—make of us? What does the unraveling of our tradition of public libraries, so hard-won but now in jeopardy, say about us?

The stories in Ali Smith’s new collection are about what we do with books and... Read more

Big Cats

By: Holiday Reinhorn

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Big Cats opens with "Charlotte," in which a young girl with a broken pelvis spies on her voluptuous neighbor during a long, hot summer night, setting the tone of irrepressible curiosity and yearning that is evident throughout the collection. In "Get Away from Me, David," a bank manager tries to overcome his haunted past as he deals with the... Read more