Short Stories audiobooks

Wrong Time, Wrong Place

By: Simon Kernick

Narrated by: Clare Corbett

Length: 1 hour 47 minutes

Abridged: No

A gripping Quick Read from the master of the race against time thriller.


Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time?

You are hiking in the Scottish highlands with three friends when you come across a girl.

She is half-naked, has been badly beaten, and she can’t speak English.

She is clearly running away from someone.

Do you stop to help... Read more

Man Seeking Woman

By: Simon Rich

Narrated by: Simon Rich

Length: 3 hours 34 minutes

Abridged: No

Love can be messy, painful, and even tragic. When seen through the eyes of Simon Rich it can also be hilarious.

In these ingenious stories, Rich conjures up some unforgettable romances: an unused prophylactic describes life inside a teenage boy's wallet; God juggles the demands of his needy girlfriend with the looming deadline for earth's... Read more

The Finest Story in the World

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 1 hour 7 minutes

Abridged: No

When the young bank clerk, Charlie Mears, comes up with an innovative idea for a new story, he has no notion just how amazing his tale is. Inspired by dreams which are memories of former lives, he takes us back to the vivid and brutal world of ancient Greece. But Charlie’s own literary skill is not equal to the task of writing his novel. His... Read more

Uncanny Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson & Edith...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 7 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

A spine-chilling collection of tales of uncanny happenings, ghostly apparitions, unexplained mysteries, evil deeds, and tragic events. "The Upper Berth" - F. Marion Crawford
"Andreas Vasalius the Anatomist" - Petrus Borel
"They" - Rudyard Kipling
"The Parricide Punished" - Anon
"The Poisoner of Montremos" - Richard Cumberland
... Read more

Great Horror Stories

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson ...

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 15 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Great Horror Stories is a vintage collection of some of the finest ghost tales, horror stories and supernatural legends ever written, by the best writers the genre has to offer. “They” – Rudyard Kipling, The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Open Window – Saki, The Rocking Horse Winner – D.H.Lawrence, Markheim – Robert Louis... Read more

They

By: Rudyard Kipling

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 54 minutes

Abridged: No

"I found hidden villages where bees, the only things awake, boomed in eighty-foot lindens that overhung grey Norman churches; miraculous brooks diving under stone bridges built for heavier traffic than would ever vex them again; tithe-barns larger than their churches, and an old smithy that cried out aloud how it had once been a hall of the... Read more

Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

Narrated by: George Saunders

Length: 5 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

One of The New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

NAMED ONE... Read more

Kinsey and Me

By: Sue Grafton

Narrated by: Judy Kaye

Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

In 1982, Sue Grafton introduced us to Kinsey Millhone. Thirty years later, Kinsey is an established international icon and Sue, a number-one bestselling author. To mark this anniversary year, Sue has given us stories that reveal Kinsey’s origins and Sue’s past.

“I've come to believe that Grafton is not only the most talented woman writing crime... Read more

What Men Live By

By: Leo Tolstoy

Narrated by: Max Highstein

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

A heart-opening tale of transformation.One winter evening a shoemaker finds a mysterious stranger naked and freezing by a shrine in his small village. The shoemaker rescues the man, and takes him home. Though the stranger won’t say where he came from, Simon invites him to work beside him, and stay with his family. As the story unfolds, the... Read more

Triple Threat

By: Jeffery Deaver

Narrated by: January LaVoy & Kevin T. Collins

Length: 4 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme novel The Burial Hour -- comes three powerful short stories.

In "Fast," Kathryn Dance races against the clock to track down the members of a domestic terrorist cell--with the lives of 200 people hanging in the balance.

In "Game," a housekeeper looks for her murdered employer's... Read more

Edgar Poe : 3 plus belles histoires

By: Edgard Allan Poe

Narrated by: various

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Considéré comme l'inventeur du roman policier, Edgar Allan Poe évolue tout au long de sa vie entre génie créateur et folie destructrice. Fils de comédiens désargentés, Edgar Poe est adopté après leur mort par un riche négociant avec qui il voyage en Europe. Après de brillantes études en Angleterre, le jeune homme intègre l'école militaire... Read more

The Second Gong

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Lytcham Close, one of the oldest stately homes in England, is owned by the last remaining heir and ruled by his intolerable whims. Old Hubert demands complete silence when he plays music and times dinner exactly by a resounding gong. Rushing down at the sound of the second—or is it the first?—gong, Joan Ashby is about to find out that not only... Read more

The King of Clubs

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is asked by Prince Paul of Maurania to solve the murder of Henry Reedburn, which has greatly distressed the Prince's fiancée, the famous dancer Valerie Saintclair. The only other witnesses seem to be a family of four who were playing bridge near an open window when she staggered in, crying ""Murder!"" Read more

The Plymouth Express

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: David Suchet

Length: 30 minutes

Abridged: No

When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels. Read more

The Under Dog

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 2 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty Lily Margrave is not convinced that Hercule Poirot is needed in the matter of Sir Atwell’s murder. At the request of her employer, Lady Atwell, she has already recounted what happened ten days ago in the Tower Room, and the victim’s nephew has been charged with the murder. Nevertheless, Lady Atwell brings Poirot up to the great house, Mon... Read more

The Mystery of the Blue Jar

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 43 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing... Read more

The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 36 minutes

Abridged: No

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories.Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal... Read more

Philomel Cottage

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: No

The recently married Alix Martin is obsessed with a recurring dream of her new husband’s murder. Each time she can see the murderer clearly, and it’s the mild-mannered man she had previously been engaged to, taking his revenge. But, what’s worse is that at the end of the dream she thanks the murderer. Perplexed, Alix tries to calm herself by... Read more

The Red Signal

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 49 minutes

Abridged: No

At a séance, Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition, is pestered by Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense. Soon, a young man named Dermot is drawn in and tells them both about the sixth sense he experiences, a red signal that spells danger. He is about to tell them of the last time he saw the red signal when... Read more

The Witness for the Prosecution

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Christopher Lee

Length: 52 minutes

Abridged: No

When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls on Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night... Read more

Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 31 minutes

Abridged: No

Hercule Poirot is about to tuck into a very traditional English supper with his old friend Bonnington when a lone diner sparks his interest. Like clockwork, the man has eaten at the restaurant on Thursdays and Tuesdays for the last ten years, but no one on the staff knows his name. When “Old Father Time,” as they have fondly nicknamed him,... Read more

The Love Detectives

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 44 minutes

Abridged: No

Mr. Satterthwaite and Colonel Melrose are comfortably ensconced in the Colonel’s study when the phone suddenly rings. Someone has been murdered, and, as the county chief constable, the Colonel lets Satterthwaite accompany him to the scene of the crime. The two of them have opposing opinions on why Sir James Dwighton has been bashed over the head... Read more

The Million Dollar Bond Robbery

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

A young banker is suspected of stealing one million dollars in Liberty Bonds on a transatlantic journey to New York, and appeals to Hercule Poirot to clear his name. Poirot learns the identities of the three people who hold keys to the locked trunk, but it won't be as easy to identify the true thief… Read more

The Kidnapped Prime Minister

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Hugh Fraser

Length: 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Poirot to locate him before a crucial conference, to avert an international crisis. Read more