An Excellent Mystery: Audiobook
Book 11 of the Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, An Excellent Mystery runs 8.4 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Patrick Tull (about 5.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 8.4 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 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 8.4 hours, it is shorter than 55% of the 53,570 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
This is book 11. Books 1 to 10 run 90.9 hours before it; books 1 to 15 run 131.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Morbid Taste for Bones | 8.8 hrs |
| 2 | One Corpse Too Many | 9.9 hrs |
| 3 | Monk's Hood | 9.6 hrs |
| 4 | Saint Peter's Fair | 9.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Leper of Saint Giles | 9 hrs |
| 6 | The Virgin in the Ice | 9.4 hrs |
| 7 | The Sanctuary Sparrow | 9.6 hrs |
| 8 | The Devil's Novice | 8.7 hrs |
| 9 | Dead Man's Ransom | 8.3 hrs |
| 10 | The Pilgrim of Hate | 8.2 hrs |
| 11 | An Excellent Mystery | 8.4 hrs |
| 12 | The Raven in the Foregate | 8.2 hrs |
More narrated by Patrick Tull
Patrick Tull narrates 56 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 622 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf
11,509 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
An Excellent Mystery is book 11 of Ellis Peters's Chronicles of Brother Cadfael series: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Patrick Tull, released December 11, 2009, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Patrick Tull
- Released
- December 11, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #11
- ISBN
- 9781440788666
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is An Excellent Mystery as an audiobook?
An Excellent Mystery runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
Is An Excellent Mystery free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates An Excellent Mystery?
An Excellent Mystery is narrated by Patrick Tull.