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Catch As Catch Can by Malcolm Hollingdrake

Catch As Catch Can: Audiobook

Book 1 of the Merseyside Crime series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Catch As Catch Can audiobook runs 7.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Adrian Hobart (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7.8listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2022released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 7.8 hours of listening.

Days to finish Catch As Catch Can at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day16 days
1 hour / day8 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 7.8 hours, it is shorter than 62% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Merseyside Crime Series

This is book 1. Books 1 to 2 run 14.9 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Catch As Catch Can7.8 hrs
2Syn7.2 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

4,905 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

Catch As Catch Can is book 1 of Malcolm Hollingdrake's Merseyside Crime series: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Adrian Hobart, released January 25, 2022, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
7.8 hrs
Narrated by
Adrian Hobart
Released
January 25, 2022
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
The Merseyside Crime Series #1
ISBN
9781669635628

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Catch As Catch Can audiobook?

Catch As Catch Can runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.

Is the Catch As Catch Can audiobook free?

Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.

Who narrates Catch As Catch Can?

Catch As Catch Can is narrated by Adrian Hobart.