Arsenic and Old Books: Audiobook
Book 6 of the Cat in the Stacks Mystery series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Arsenic and Old Books audiobook runs 8.4 hours unabridged, narrated by Erin Bennett (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 |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 8.4 hours, it is shorter than 52% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Cat in the Stacks Mystery
This is book 6. Books 1 to 5 run 42.3 hours before it; books 1 to 17 run 139.3 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Murder Past Due | 8.1 hrs |
| 2 | Classified as Murder | 9.2 hrs |
| 3 | File M for Murder | 8.8 hrs |
| 4 | Out of Circulation | 8.2 hrs |
| 5 | The Silence of the Library | 8 hrs |
| 6 | Arsenic and Old Books | 8.4 hrs |
| 7 | No Cats Allowed | 8.4 hrs |
| 8 | Twelve Angry Librarians | 7.4 hrs |
| 9 | Claws for Concern | 8.1 hrs |
| 10 | Six Cats a Slayin' | 8.7 hrs |
| 11 | The Pawful Truth | 8.1 hrs |
| 12 | Careless Whiskers | 8.1 hrs |
More narrated by Erin Bennett
Erin Bennett narrates 517 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,703 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
5,737 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Left To Die (An Adele Sharp Mystery—Book One)
- Girl on a Train
- Open Season
- Savage Run
- The 18th Abduction
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
Arsenic and Old Books is book 6 of Miranda James's Cat in the Stacks Mystery series: a 8.4-hour unabridged recording, read by Erin Bennett, released January 27, 2015, on the Police & Detective and Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.4 hrs
- Narrated by
- Erin Bennett
- Released
- January 27, 2015
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective, Fiction
- Series
- Cat in the Stacks Mystery #6
- ISBN
- 9781452688886
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Arsenic and Old Books audiobook?
Arsenic and Old Books runs 8.4 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.6 hours.
Is the Arsenic and Old Books audiobook free?
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Who narrates Arsenic and Old Books?
Arsenic and Old Books is narrated by Erin Bennett.