The Ape Who Guards the Balance: Audiobook
Book 10 of the Amelia Peabody Mysteries series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Ape Who Guards the Balance runs 15.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Barbara Rosenblat (about 10.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 15.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 32 days |
| 1 hour / day | 16 days |
| 2 hours / day | 8 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 11 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 15.6 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on Amelia Peabody Mysteries
This is book 10. Books 1 to 9 run 119.1 hours before it; books 1 to 19 run 267.9 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crocodile on the Sandbank | 8.8 hrs |
| 2 | The Curse of the Pharaohs | 11.6 hrs |
| 3 | The Mummy Case | 12.3 hrs |
| 4 | Lion in the Valley | 12.5 hrs |
| 5 | The Deeds of the Disturber | 14 hrs |
| 6 | The Last Camel Died at Noon | 15.6 hrs |
| 7 | The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog | 15.2 hrs |
| 8 | The Hippopotamus Pool | 14.5 hrs |
| 9 | Seeing a Large Cat | 14.5 hrs |
| 10 | The Ape Who Guards the Balance | 15.6 hrs |
| 11 | The Falcon at the Portal | 15.4 hrs |
| 12 | He Shall Thunder in the Sky | 17.2 hrs |
More narrated by Barbara Rosenblat
Barbara Rosenblat narrates 247 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,371 hours in all.
About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf
640 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 Ape Who Guards the Balance is book 10 of Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody Mysteries series: a 15.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Barbara Rosenblat, released April 18, 2005, on the Police & Detective shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 15.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Barbara Rosenblat
- Released
- April 18, 2005
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Police & Detective
- Series
- Amelia Peabody Mysteries #10
- ISBN
- 9781440781148
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Ape Who Guards the Balance as an audiobook?
The Ape Who Guards the Balance runs 15.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.4 hours.
Is The Ape Who Guards the Balance free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Ape Who Guards the Balance?
The Ape Who Guards the Balance is narrated by Barbara Rosenblat.
Is The Ape Who Guards the Balance worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.4 hours, saving 5.2 hours.