100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories: Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the 100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories: Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others audiobook runs 56 hours unabridged, narrated by Mark Bowen and Peter Coates (about 37.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 56 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 112 days |
| 1 hour / day | 56 days |
| 2 hours / day | 28 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 38 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 56 hours, it runs longer than 100% of the 13,042 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog.
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Mark Bowen narrates 259 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,052 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Suspense shelf
6 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- B. J. Harrison Reads The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Sam Reilly Collection Volume 2
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- The Sam Reilly Collection Volume 4
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories: Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others is an audiobook by Ray Bradbury, Clifford D. Simak and Arthur C. Clarke: a 56-hour unabridged recording, read by Mark Bowen and Peter Coates, released February 16, 2026, on the Suspense and Essays & Anthologies shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 56 hrs
- Narrated by
- Mark Bowen, Peter Coates
- Released
- February 16, 2026
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Suspense, Essays & Anthologies
- ISBN
- 4069829552820
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100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories: Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others runs 56 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 37.3 hours.
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100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories: Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others is narrated by Mark Bowen and Peter Coates.
Is 100 of the World's Greatest Short Stories: Detective and Science Fiction. Selections from Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and Others worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 37.3 hours, saving 18.7 hours.