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The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters by Colin Conway

The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters: Audiobook

Book 3 of the 509 Crimes Stories Box Sets series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters runs 18.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Damon Abdallah (about 12.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

18.3listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2025released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 18.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day37 days
1 hour / day19 days
2 hours / day10 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×13 days

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What our data says

  • At 18.3 hours, it runs longer than 99% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

266 Police & Detective 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

The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters is book 3 of Colin Conway's 509 Crimes Stories Box Sets series: a 18.3-hour unabridged recording, read by Damon Abdallah, released March 18, 2025, on the Police & Detective and Suspense shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
18.3 hrs
Narrated by
Damon Abdallah
Released
March 18, 2025
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Suspense
Series
The 509 Crimes Stories Box Sets #3
ISBN
9798318278778

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters as an audiobook?

The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters runs 18.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 12.2 hours.

Is The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters free as an audiobook?

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Who narrates The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters?

The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters is narrated by Damon Abdallah.

Is The 509 Crime Stories: Books 7-9: Murder by Any Other Name, Black and Blue in the Lilac City, and The Only Death that Matters worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 12.2 hours, saving 6.1 hours.