A Beautiful Blue Death: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Charles Lenox Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, A Beautiful Blue Death runs 9 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by James Langton (about 6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 18 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 9 hours, it runs longer than 54% of the 53,570 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Charles Lenox Mysteries
This is book 1. Books 1 to 16 run 135.7 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Beautiful Blue Death | 9 hrs |
| 2 | The September Society | 8.5 hrs |
| 3 | The Fleet Street Murders | 8.6 hrs |
| 4 | A Stranger in Mayfair | 8.3 hrs |
| 5 | A Burial at Sea | 9 hrs |
| 6 | A Death in the Small Hours | 8.5 hrs |
| 7 | An Old Betrayal: A Charles Lenox Mystery | 8.2 hrs |
| 8 | The Laws of Murder: A Charles Lenox Mystery | 8.1 hrs |
| 9 | Home by Nightfall: A Charles Lenox Mystery | 8.5 hrs |
| 10 | The Inheritance | 8.4 hrs |
| 11 | The Woman in the Water | 8.8 hrs |
| 12 | The Vanishing Man: A Charles Lenox Mystery | 8.4 hrs |
More narrated by James Langton
James Langton narrates 300 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,036 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf
12,790 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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
A Beautiful Blue Death is book 1 of Charles Finch's Charles Lenox Mysteries series: a 9-hour unabridged recording, read by James Langton, released September 27, 2011, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 9 hrs
- Narrated by
- James Langton
- Released
- September 27, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- Charles Lenox Mysteries #1
- ISBN
- 9781452674544
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is A Beautiful Blue Death as an audiobook?
A Beautiful Blue Death runs 9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6 hours.
Is A Beautiful Blue Death free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates A Beautiful Blue Death?
A Beautiful Blue Death is narrated by James Langton.