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The Great Hippopotamus Hotel by Alexander McCall Smith

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel: Audiobook

Book 25 of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Great Hippopotamus Hotel runs 8.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Bianca Amato (about 5.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.1listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2024released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.1 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Great Hippopotamus Hotel at common listening paces
Your paceYou'll finish in
30 min / day17 days
1 hour / day9 days
2 hours / day5 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×6 days

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What our data says

  • At 8.1 hours, it is shorter than 57% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,340 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 Great Hippopotamus Hotel is book 25 of Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series: a 8.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Bianca Amato, released October 15, 2024, on the Police & Detective and Literary Fiction shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.1 hrs
Narrated by
Bianca Amato
Released
October 15, 2024
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Literary Fiction
Series
No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #25
ISBN
9798891789449

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Great Hippopotamus Hotel as an audiobook?

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel runs 8.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.4 hours.

Is The Great Hippopotamus Hotel free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Great Hippopotamus Hotel?

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel is narrated by Bianca Amato.