Classic Audiobook Collection

The Cat Saw Murder by Dolores Hitchens audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen seventy-year-old Rachel Murdock and her quieter sister, Jennifer, get a desperate message from their beloved niece Lily in the seaside town of Breakers Beach, California, they board a train from Los Angeles at once, refusing to leave behind their sleek black cat, Samantha. But the trip turns ominous the moment they arrive: Samantha, newly the unlikely heir to a fortune, becomes the target of a chilling attack, and the sisters realize Lily's trouble runs deeper than she admitted. Soon Rachel is drugged and rendered helpless at the very worst moment, and Lily is found brutally killed. As Detective Lieutenant Stephen Mayhew tries to sort gambling debts, bridge-table grudges, and a growing list of suspects, another shocking discovery in the sand suggests a far more tangled scheme at work. Stubborn, sharp-eyed, and unimpressed by official theories, Rachel inserts herself into the investigation, piecing together small inconsistencies everyone else overlooks. With Samantha as the only witness to a crucial moment, Rachel must untangle motive from misdirection before the violence escalates again. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:24:39) Chapter 02(00:46:22) Chapter 03(01:09:57) Chapter 04(01:34:01) Chapter 05(01:54:40) Chapter 06(02:18:07) Chapter 07(02:38:54) Chapter 08(03:02:23) Chapter 09(03:25:06) Chapter 10(03:44:43) Chapter 11(04:07:14) Chapter 12(04:28:22) Chapter 13(04:47:17) Chapter 14(05:09:22) Chapter 15(05:28:34) Chapter 16(05:51:11) Chapter 17(06:12:17) Chapter 18(06:36:07) Chapter 19(06:55:50) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Man with the Red Beard, A Story of Moscow and London by David Whitelaw audiobook. Genre: thrillerFresh from a year reporting on the unrest of tsarist Russia, a hard-nosed journalist returns to London expecting ordinary assignments and a quieter life. Instead, a chance encounter pulls him into a chase that begins with an enigmatic stranger known only for his unmistakable red beard, a stolen jewel, and a gunshot in a crowded street. Before the night is over, the narrator is forced to choose between safety and conscience - and he chooses to act. Driven by a mixture of duty, curiosity, and a growing sense of romantic idealism, he becomes an unlikely knight-errant, setting out across borders to aid a hunted dissident whose true loyalties are anything but clear. From London drawing rooms and fogbound lanes to Moscow's watchful streets and the shadowed circles of revolutionaries and secret police, the journey becomes a test of nerve and character. As danger closes in and motives blur, the journalist finds himself entangled not only in plots of espionage and suppression, but also in a rescue that awakens a deeper, more personal stake in the outcome - and a love that could cost him everything. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:15:29) Chapter 02(00:31:09) Chapter 03(00:38:18) Chapter 04(00:50:13) Chapter 05(01:03:46) Chapter 06(01:13:55) Chapter 07(01:23:14) Chapter 08(01:37:42) Chapter 09(01:46:30) Chapter 10(01:59:38) Chapter 11(02:12:06) Chapter 12(02:18:56) Chapter 13(02:34:14) Chapter 14(02:44:53) Chapter 15(02:58:27) Chapter 16(03:17:41) Chapter 17(03:28:00) Chapter 18(03:35:27) Chapter 19(03:49:12) Chapter 20(03:57:59) Chapter 21(04:06:24) Chapter 22(04:19:54) Chapter 23(04:28:50) Chapter 24(04:43:41) Chapter 25(04:57:17) Chapter 26(05:13:27) Chapter 27(05:47:03) Chapter 28(06:06:07) Chapter 29(06:23:13) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe audiobook. Genre: adventureBorn in Newgate Prison and cast into poverty, Moll Flanders grows up determined to survive in a world that offers women few safe choices. Telling her own story in a candid, shrewd voice, Moll follows opportunity wherever it appears - through households and marketplaces, across social classes, and into a string of marriages, bargains, and betrayals. She learns to read people as quickly as she reads a room, using charm, calculation, and sheer nerve to secure food, shelter, and status, even as every gain risks collapse under scandal, debt, or the law. As fortunes turn, Moll is drawn into Londons criminal underworld, where disguise and desperation blur the line between necessity and sin. Pursuit, imprisonment, and the threat of transportation force her to confront the cost of her ambitions and the meaning of repentance. Daniel Defoes classic novel is both a vivid portrait of 18th-century England and a psychological study of survival, morality, and reinvention - a fast-moving life story that asks how much of a person is shaped by choice, and how much by circumstance. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 00(00:10:37) Chapter 01(00:34:55) Chapter 02(00:55:54) Chapter 03(01:23:30) Chapter 04(02:01:35) Chapter 05(02:36:06) Chapter 06(03:02:38) Chapter 07(03:36:22) Chapter 08(04:01:39) Chapter 09(04:24:35) Chapter 10(04:49:28) Chapter 11(05:19:21) Chapter 12(05:56:03) Chapter 13(06:27:19) Chapter 14(07:07:52) Chapter 15(07:40:41) Chapter 16(08:17:39) Chapter 17(08:48:01) Chapter 18(09:18:04) Chapter 19(09:56:42) Chapter 20(10:36:07) Chapter 21(11:12:42) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lady Chatterleys Lover by D. H. Lawrence audiobook. Genre: romanceSet in post-World War I England, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows Constance (Connie) Reid after her marriage to Sir Clifford Chatterley, an upper-class baronet whose war injury leaves him physically disabled and increasingly withdrawn into ambition, status, and the running of his coal-mining estate. Isolated at Wragby Hall and suffocated by the cold formality of her new world, Connie struggles with loneliness, the rigid expectations of class, and a marriage that offers companionship but little tenderness. Her life shifts when she forms a connection with Oliver Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper, a man marked by his own disappointments and wary independence. As their relationship deepens, Connie is forced to confront what she truly wants from love and intimacy, and what it might cost to seek it in a society obsessed with rank, respectability, and control. With the shadow of industry pressing against the countryside, Lawrence explores the clash between mind and body, social duty and private desire, and the possibility of renewal in a world that feels spiritually numb. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:27:59) Chapter 02(00:48:02) Chapter 03(01:22:24) Chapter 04(01:47:38) Chapter 05(02:25:18) Chapter 06(02:53:12) Chapter 07(03:25:23) Chapter 08(03:56:06) Chapter 09(04:29:33) Chapter 10(04:59:45) Chapter 11(05:35:44) Chapter 12(06:06:31) Chapter 13(06:51:54) Chapter 14(07:24:40) Chapter 15(08:04:02) Chapter 16(08:49:35) Chapter 17(09:35:19) Chapter 18(09:54:00) Chapter 19(10:22:42) Chapter 20(11:14:22) Chapter 21(11:52:39) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Soul Stealers by Chester S. Geier audiobook. Genre: scifiBryan, a battle-worn newspaper reporter, thinks he has seen every kind of death until a string of baffling cases lands him in a hospital ward: men whose bodies still breathe, yet whose minds are gone, as if the essential spark inside them has been stolen. The trail leads to Chicago's Grant Park, where nighttime shadows hide impossible shapes and witnesses swear they have seen translucent, insect-like beings moving with silent purpose. When Bryan encounters Leeta, a luminous young woman who seems only half of this world, the mystery turns into a desperate moral struggle. Leeta is tied to a failing realm poisoned by a strange, deadly radiation, and her people's survival may depend on taking what humans can least afford to lose. Pulled between skepticism and awe, Bryan is drawn across the boundary between worlds, where beauty and ruin exist side by side and every choice carries a cost. Blending pulp-era wonder with eerie metaphysical stakes, The Soul Stealers asks what a soul is worth when survival is on the line. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:15:47) Chapter 02(00:34:53) Chapter 03(00:49:47) Chapter 04(01:17:35) Chapter 05 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hours of Sorrow by Charlotte Elliott audiobook. Genre: religionWritten by Charlotte Elliott, the Victorian hymn writer best known for 'Just as I Am,' Hours of Sorrow is a devotional collection created for listeners moving through illness, grief, and long seasons of low spirits. In a series of short, hymn-like poems and meditations, Elliott gives language to weariness, doubt, and the lonely hours when comfort feels far away. Each piece turns ordinary trials into prayer: a mind searching for steadiness, a heart learning patience, and a soul trying to trust God when answers do not come quickly. Rather than offering easy optimism, Elliott focuses on quiet endurance and the small mercies that arrive in silence - a remembered promise, a line of Scripture, a moment of peace, a renewed willingness to keep going. The result is a gentle companion for bedside listening or reflective walks, written in clear, direct language that meets sorrow honestly while pointing toward consolation. Hours of Sorrow invites the listener to bring unspoken fears into the light, and to discover how faith can hold steady even when life does not. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:02:50) Chapter 02(00:03:56) Chapter 03(00:05:00) Chapter 04(00:06:18) Chapter 05(00:08:21) Chapter 06(00:09:25) Chapter 07(00:10:31) Chapter 08(00:11:46) Chapter 09(00:12:55) Chapter 10(00:14:14) Chapter 11(00:17:19) Chapter 12(00:18:29) Chapter 13(00:19:45) Chapter 14(00:22:06) Chapter 15(00:23:09) Chapter 16(00:27:03) Chapter 17(00:30:07) Chapter 18(00:31:20) Chapter 19(00:32:29) Chapter 20(00:33:33) Chapter 21(00:35:12) Chapter 22(00:36:55) Chapter 23(00:38:05) Chapter 24(00:42:13) Chapter 25(00:43:40) Chapter 26(00:44:51) Chapter 27(00:47:02) Chapter 28(00:48:03) Chapter 29(00:49:15) Chapter 30(00:50:21) Chapter 31(00:51:55) Chapter 32(00:53:39) Chapter 33(00:54:49) Chapter 34(00:55:57) Chapter 35(00:57:29) Chapter 36(00:59:23) Chapter 37(01:00:41) Chapter 38(01:03:19) Chapter 39(01:05:02) Chapter 40(01:06:51) Chapter 41(01:08:16) Chapter 42(01:09:23) Chapter 43(01:13:12) Chapter 44(01:16:51) Chapter 45(01:20:04) Chapter 46(01:22:11) Chapter 47(01:24:43) Chapter 48(01:26:31) Chapter 49(01:28:25) Chapter 50(01:29:33) Chapter 51(01:31:54) Chapter 52(01:33:13) Chapter 53(01:34:39) Chapter 54(01:35:43) Chapter 55(01:37:03) Chapter 56(01:39:53) Chapter 57(01:40:30) Chapter 58(01:41:54) Chapter 59(01:43:16) Chapter 60(01:44:52) Chapter 61(01:46:22) Chapter 62(01:47:47) Chapter 63(01:48:50) Chapter 64(01:52:33) Chapter 65(01:53:58) Chapter 66(01:55:50) Chapter 67(01:57:37) Chapter 68(01:58:49) Chapter 69(01:59:44) Chapter 70(02:01:35) Chapter 71(02:02:39) Chapter 72(02:03:40) Chapter 73(02:05:22) Chapter 74(02:06:34) Chapter 75(02:08:45) Chapter 76(02:09:50) Chapter 77(02:11:59) Chapter 78(02:14:04) Chapter 79 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton audiobook. Genre: mysteryWhen summer heat makes New York City feel unbearable, John Bartley plans an easy escape: a visit to his friend Carter in a quiet lakeside village. Instead, Bartley sends his friend Pelt ahead to settle in, never guessing that a simple holiday will turn into a case that reaches from a country house dining room to the attention of Scotland Yard. Professor Henry Warren, a brilliant scientist newly returned from China, has invited a small circle to dinner. The dinner never happens. Warren is found dead inside his own locked home, and on his forehead is a chilling sign: a crooked cross marked like a warning.As suspicion spreads through the village, Pelt and Carter are pulled into a tightening web of motives, secrets, and strange hints pointing toward Warren's travels and the people around him, including a wary secretary and an enigmatic foreign presence that local gossip is quick to condemn. With Inspector Ranville lending sharp professional insight, the investigation becomes a contest of observation and nerve: which details are clues, which are misdirection, and what does the sinister symbol truly mean? In this brisk classic whodunit, reason must cut through fear before the next move is made. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:18:49) Chapter 02(00:31:38) Chapter 03(00:48:12) Chapter 04(01:07:12) Chapter 05(01:26:14) Chapter 06(01:49:24) Chapter 07(02:08:53) Chapter 08(02:28:49) Chapter 09(02:45:11) Chapter 10(03:06:48) Chapter 11(03:24:32) Chapter 12(03:47:55) Chapter 13(04:04:04) Chapter 14(04:23:34) Chapter 15(04:47:04) Chapter 16(05:16:13) Chapter 17 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer audiobook. Genre: adventureIn the hard, empty spaces of the Southwestern range, Deal 'Square Deal' Sanderson lives by a simple code: do the right thing, even when nobody is watching. While traveling alone, he stumbles onto violence in a remote ravine and finds a letter meant for Mary Bransford, a young ranch owner desperately waiting for the brother she has not seen since childhood. Mary is being pressured and terrorized by Alva Dale, a smooth-talking gang leader with allies in town, and the Double A Ranch is running out of time. Riding straight into trouble, Sanderson arrives at Marys place just as her enemies tighten the noose around her hired men, her cattle, and her claim. In the confusion, Mary mistakes him for the brother she is expecting, and Sanderson lets the misunderstanding stand long enough to get close to the threat. But protecting the ranch means facing a crooked lawman, ruthless intimidation, and the deadly politics of water, money, and power on the open range. As Sandersons secret grows heavier, every gunshot and every hard choice tests whether a fair deal is possible in a country built on force. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:08:31) Chapter 02(00:24:05) Chapter 03(00:36:09) Chapter 04(00:59:26) Chapter 05(01:12:24) Chapter 06(01:35:39) Chapter 07(01:44:30) Chapter 08(01:54:22) Chapter 09(02:16:07) Chapter 10(02:25:41) Chapter 11(02:30:03) Chapter 12(02:47:33) Chapter 13(03:09:15) Chapter 14(03:17:33) Chapter 15(03:42:53) Chapter 16(03:59:04) Chapter 17(04:05:19) Chapter 18(04:14:19) Chapter 19(04:30:33) Chapter 20(04:50:49) Chapter 21(05:13:08) Chapter 22(05:20:18) Chapter 23(05:26:18) Chapter 24(05:36:57) Chapter 25(05:58:51) Chapter 26(06:18:05) Chapter 27(06:37:32) Chapter 28(06:52:06) Chapter 29(07:00:54) Chapter 30(07:13:02) Chapter 31(07:24:47) Chapter 32(07:34:05) Chapter 33(07:43:38) Chapter 34(07:55:16) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Syndic by C. M. Kornbluth audiobook. Genre: scifiIn a future America where the old United States has been driven offshore, order has not vanished so much as changed hands. On the East Coast, the Syndic runs like a vast protection league: pay your dues, keep your receipts, and life can be startlingly freewheeling. West of the Mississippi, a rival power known as the Mob preaches iron morality and enforces it with fear. Caught between them is Charles Orsino, a young, low-ranking Syndic collector in New York who expects his career to consist of routine shake-downs and staying out of trouble. Then an assassination attempt makes him a problem, and an opportunity. Summoned by the Syndic's top brass, Orsino is asked to do the unthinkable: go undercover to infiltrate the exiled North American Government, which is plotting a return from distant island bases. Rebuilt by hypnosis and armed with a manufactured identity, he is dropped into enemy territory where lie detectors, secret police, and politics are as dangerous as bullets. As Orsino navigates decayed corners of Europe and the competing visions of crime, government, and freedom, Kornbluth delivers a hard-edged adventure that doubles as a sharp political and social satire. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:15:43) Chapter 02(00:29:34) Chapter 03(00:43:19) Chapter 04(00:59:08) Chapter 05(01:12:01) Chapter 06(01:21:55) Chapter 07(01:33:09) Chapter 08(01:42:17) Chapter 09(01:58:35) Chapter 10(02:10:34) Chapter 11(02:20:55) Chapter 12(02:39:40) Chapter 13(02:54:58) Chapter 14(03:11:24) Chapter 15(03:24:50) Chapter 16(03:37:25) Chapter 17(03:50:51) Chapter 18(04:03:04) Chapter 19(04:14:30) Chapter 20(04:25:28) Chapter 21(04:32:23) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Art of Worldly Wisdom by Baltasar Gracian audiobook. Genre: philosophyWritten in the sharp, elegant style of the Spanish Baroque, The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a compact treasury of insight for anyone navigating ambition, reputation, friendship, and power. Baltasar Gracian distills decades of observation into a series of brief maxims, each offering a practical angle on how people behave and how a person might act with tact, foresight, and self-command. Rather than telling a story, the book builds a portrait of the 'complete' individual: someone who can read situations, manage impressions, choose allies carefully, and balance boldness with restraint. Along the way, Gracian explores themes of discretion, timing, patience, and the difference between true worth and public appearance, with advice that is at once skeptical about human motives and bracingly optimistic about personal cultivation. Ideal for listeners who enjoy reflective, quotable wisdom, this classic invites you to pause over each thought, test it against experience, and refine your judgment in the daily theater of life. Chapters (Approximate)(00:00:00) Chapter 01(00:12:35) Chapter 02(00:51:38) Chapter 03(01:00:14) Chapter 04(01:09:24) Chapter 05(01:17:19) Chapter 06(01:25:52) Chapter 07(01:34:58) Chapter 08(01:42:22) Chapter 09(01:52:12) Chapter 10(02:00:24) Chapter 11(02:08:52) Chapter 12(02:15:31) Chapter 13(02:25:28) Chapter 14(02:34:49) Chapter 15(02:43:56) Chapter 16(02:55:31) Chapter 17(03:06:19) Chapter 18(03:17:39) Chapter 19(03:27:45) Chapter 20(03:39:32) Chapter 21(03:49:23) Chapter 22(03:58:19) Chapter 23(04:08:10) Chapter 24(04:17:27) Chapter 25(04:26:33) Chapter 26(04:35:38) Chapter 27(04:44:03) Chapter 28(04:53:27) Chapter 29(05:00:52) Chapter 30(05:10:42) Chapter 31(05:18:31) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices