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Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg

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).

12listening hrs
Legal & Politicalstore shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12 hours of listening.

Days to finish Old City Hall at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day24 days
1 hour / day12 days
2 hours / day6 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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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.

BookTitleLength
1Old City Hall12 hrs
2The Guilty Plea11.2 hrs
3Stray Bullets11.2 hrs
4Stranglehold12.4 hrs
5Heart of the City8.3 hrs

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:

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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Questions 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.