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Cover of Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

Skeleton Key: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Skeleton Key audiobook runs 7 hours (about 4.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

7listening hrs
4.0★25 ratings
Thrillergenre
Free for new listeners

The instrumentWhen will you finish it?

Based on 7 hours of listening.

Days to finish Skeleton Key at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day14 days
1 hour / day7 days
2 hours / day4 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×5 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any of the 2,187 audiobooks we measure.

What our data says

  • At 7 hours, it's shorter than 91% of the thriller audiobooks we measured.
  • That's 43% shorter than the average thriller audiobook (12.3 hrs across 717 titles in our dataset).

Computed from thriller audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ). Methodology.

Who is this for?

Best for thriller listeners: a weekend-size listen at 7 hours.

About the book

Alex Rider of Point Blank is back in another hair-raising adventure. Although the 14-year-old undercover agent has escaped great dangers and has twice saved the world, he now faces his most deadly adversary yet on a tropical island off the coast of Cuba. General Sarov was once an important leader in Communist Russia. Now in exile on Skeleton Key, he is full of bitterness for what his country has become. Sarov plans to put Russia in power again. And if the rest of the world won’t agree with his demands, he will detonate a nuclear bomb. It’s up to Alex to stop this deadly tyrant or die trying. Like a teenaged James Bond, Alex faces incredible foes and encounters spectacular adventures. Fast-moving and full of suspense, Skeleton Key will keep even the most reluctant reader glued to the headphones. “Fasten your seatbelts.”—Kirkus Reviews

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Questions listeners ask

How long is the Skeleton Key audiobook?

Skeleton Key runs 7 hours. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 4.7 hours.

Is the Skeleton Key audiobook free?

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

When was Skeleton Key first published?

Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz was first published in 1999.