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By Its Cover by Donna Leon

By Its Cover: Audiobook

Book 23 of the A Commissario Brunetti Mystery series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the By Its Cover audiobook runs 7 hours unabridged, narrated by David Rintoul (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7listening hrs
Suspensestore shelf
2014released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7 hours of listening.

Days to finish By Its Cover at common listening paces
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30 min / day14 days
1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

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What our data says

  • At 7 hours, it is shorter than 72% of the 13,042 Suspense audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Suspense shelf

1,602 Suspense 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

By Its Cover is book 23 of Donna Leon's A Commissario Brunetti Mystery series: a 7-hour unabridged recording, read by David Rintoul, released April 3, 2014, on the Suspense shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7 hrs
Narrated by
David Rintoul
Released
April 3, 2014
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Suspense
Series
A Commissario Brunetti Mystery #23
ISBN
9781473506275

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the By Its Cover audiobook?

By Its Cover runs 7 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.

Is the By Its Cover audiobook free?

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Who narrates By Its Cover?

By Its Cover is narrated by David Rintoul.