Playing With Fire: Audiobook
Book 2 of the Skulduggery Pleasant series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Playing With Fire audiobook runs 6.9 hours unabridged, narrated by Rupert Degas (about 4.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 6.9 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 14 days |
| 1 hour / day | 7 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 5 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 6.9 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 7,923 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Skulduggery Pleasant
This is book 2. Book 1 runs 7.1 hours before it; books 1 to 16 run 217.8 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Skulduggery Pleasant | 7.1 hrs |
| 2 | Playing With Fire | 6.9 hrs |
| 3 | The Faceless Ones | 7.8 hrs |
| 4 | Dark Days | 8.2 hrs |
| 5 | Mortal Coil | 12.2 hrs |
| 6 | Death Bringer | 13.8 hrs |
| 7 | Kingdom of the Wicked | 15.4 hrs |
| 8 | Last Stand of Dead Men | 19.2 hrs |
| 9 | The Dying of the Light | 18.5 hrs |
| 10 | Resurrection | 14 hrs |
| 11 | Midnight | 12.5 hrs |
| 12 | Bedlam | 17.9 hrs |
More narrated by Rupert Degas
Rupert Degas narrates 113 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,057 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mystery & Fantasy shelf
1,140 Mystery & Fantasy audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- A Wrinkle in Time
- Warriors #1: Into the Wild
- The City of Ember: The First Book of Ember
- Woof: A Bowser and Birdie Novel
- The Hive Queen (Wings of Fire #12)
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
Playing With Fire is book 2 of Derek Landy's Skulduggery Pleasant series: a 6.9-hour unabridged recording, read by Rupert Degas, released April 1, 2008, on the Mystery & Fantasy and Humor shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 6.9 hrs
- Narrated by
- Rupert Degas
- Released
- April 1, 2008
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery & Fantasy, Humor
- Series
- Skulduggery Pleasant #2
- ISBN
- 9780007262472
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Playing With Fire audiobook?
Playing With Fire runs 6.9 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.6 hours.
Is the Playing With Fire audiobook free?
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Who narrates Playing With Fire?
Playing With Fire is narrated by Rupert Degas.