The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime runs 20 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon (about 13.3 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 20 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 40 days |
| 1 hour / day | 20 days |
| 2 hours / day | 10 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
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What our data says
- At 20 hours, it runs longer than 93% of the 3,272 Europe audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon
Jennifer M. Dixon narrates 125 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 1,441 hours in all.
About as long, on the Europe shelf
156 Europe audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2011 recording read by Judith Flanders runs 1.7 hours shorter (18.3 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 Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime is an audiobook by Judith Flanders: a 20-hour unabridged recording, read by Jennifer M. Dixon, released June 4, 2019, on the Europe shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 20 hrs
- Narrated by
- Jennifer M. Dixon
- Released
- June 4, 2019
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Europe
- ISBN
- 9781977349811
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime as an audiobook?
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime runs 20 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.3 hours.
Is The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime?
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime is narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon.
Is The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.3 hours, saving 6.7 hours.