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Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart by Ellis Peters

Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart: Audiobook

Book 6 of the Inspector Felse Mysteries series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart audiobook runs 7.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Prebble (about 5 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.5listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.5 hours of listening.

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1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.5 hours, it is shorter than 65% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

4,512 Police & Detective 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

Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart is book 6 of Ellis Peters's Inspector Felse Mysteries series: a 7.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Prebble, released March 5, 2010, on the Police & Detective and Cozy Mystery shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.5 hrs
Narrated by
Simon Prebble
Released
March 5, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Cozy Mystery
Series
Inspector Felse Mysteries #6
ISBN
9781440788604

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart audiobook?

Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart runs 7.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5 hours.

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Who narrates Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart?

Black is the Colour of My True Love's Heart is narrated by Simon Prebble.