Sold Down the River: Audiobook
Book 4 of the Benjamin January Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Sold Down the River audiobook runs 13 hours unabridged, narrated by Ron Butler (about 8.6 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 13 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 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 13 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 53,570 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Benjamin January Mysteries
This is book 4. Books 1 to 3 run 37.2 hours before it; books 1 to 12 run 136 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Free Man of Color | 11.7 hrs |
| 2 | Fever Season | 12.6 hrs |
| 3 | Graveyard Dust | 12.9 hrs |
| 4 | Sold Down the River | 13 hrs |
| 5 | Die upon a Kiss | 14.1 hrs |
| 6 | Wet Grave | 10.9 hrs |
| 7 | Days of the Dead | 12.4 hrs |
| 8 | Dead Water | 10.2 hrs |
| 9 | Dead and Buried | 9.4 hrs |
| 10 | The Shirt on His Back | 9.4 hrs |
| 11 | Ran Away | 9.5 hrs |
| 12 | Good Man Friday | 10 hrs |
More narrated by Ron Butler
Ron Butler narrates 349 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,989 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf
5,753 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Local Woman Missing
- The Husband's Secret
- The Whistler
- An Anonymous Girl
- Something in the Water
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
Sold Down the River is book 4 of Barbara Hambly's Benjamin January Mysteries series: a 13-hour unabridged recording, read by Ron Butler, released March 16, 2021, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 13 hrs
- Narrated by
- Ron Butler
- Released
- March 16, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- The Benjamin January Mysteries #4
- ISBN
- 9781799922254
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Sold Down the River audiobook?
Sold Down the River runs 13 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.6 hours.
Is the Sold Down the River audiobook free?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates Sold Down the River?
Sold Down the River is narrated by Ron Butler.
Is Sold Down the River worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.6 hours, saving 4.3 hours.