
Old City Hall: Audiobook
Book 1 of the Detective Ari Greene series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Old City Hall audiobook runs 12 hours unabridged, narrated by Paul Hecht (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 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 12 hours, it runs longer than 75% of the 2,576 Legal & Political audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Detective Ari Greene
This is book 1. Books 1 to 5 run 55.2 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old City Hall | 12 hrs |
| 2 | The Guilty Plea | 11.2 hrs |
| 3 | Stray Bullets | 11.2 hrs |
| 4 | Stranglehold | 12.4 hrs |
| 5 | Heart of the City | 8.3 hrs |
More narrated by Paul Hecht
Paul Hecht narrates 75 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 941 hours in all.
About as long, on the Legal & Political shelf
570 Legal & Political audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- The Whistler
- The Judge's List
- The Terminal List
- The Guardians
- The President Is Missing
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
Old City Hall is book 1 of Robert Rotenberg's Detective Ari Greene series: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by Paul Hecht, released August 14, 2009, on the Legal & Political shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12 hrs
- Narrated by
- Paul Hecht
- Released
- August 14, 2009
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Legal & Political
- Series
- Detective Ari Greene #1
- ISBN
- 9781440760358
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Old City Hall audiobook?
Old City Hall runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is the Old City Hall audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Old City Hall?
Old City Hall is narrated by Paul Hecht.
Is Old City Hall worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.