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The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins

The Dead Secret: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Dead Secret runs 16.3 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by LibriVox Volunteers (about 10.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

16.3listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2016released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 16.3 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Dead Secret at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day33 days
1 hour / day17 days
2 hours / day9 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×11 days

Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.

What our data says

  • At 16.3 hours, it runs longer than 98% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

505 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

Other recordings

  • The 2011 recording read by Various Readers runs about the same length (16.4 hours).
  • The 2025 recording read by Simon Hargrove runs 3.2 hours shorter (13.1 hours).
  • The 2020 recording read by Nicholas Boulton runs 3 hours shorter (13.3 hours).

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 Dead Secret is an audiobook by Wilkie Collins: a 16.3-hour unabridged recording, read by LibriVox Volunteers, released September 7, 2016, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
16.3 hrs
Narrated by
LibriVox Volunteers
Released
September 7, 2016
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Dead Secret as an audiobook?

The Dead Secret runs 16.3 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 10.9 hours.

Is The Dead Secret free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Dead Secret?

The Dead Secret is narrated by LibriVox Volunteers.

Is The Dead Secret worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 10.9 hours, saving 5.4 hours.