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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives by Otto Penzler

The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives: Audiobook

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives runs 12 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by John Allen Nelson and Justine Eyre and others (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

12listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2010released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 12 hours of listening.

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1 hour / day at 1.5×8 days

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What our data says

  • At 12 hours, it runs longer than 89% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

2,943 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:

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About this listen

The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives is an audiobook by Otto Penzler: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by John Allen Nelson, Justine Eyre and John Lee, released January 25, 2010, on the Police & Detective and Essays & Anthologies shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
12 hrs
Narrated by
John Allen Nelson, Justine Eyre, John Lee
Released
January 25, 2010
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective, Essays & Anthologies
ISBN
9781400183609

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives as an audiobook?

The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.

Is The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives?

The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives is narrated by John Allen Nelson, Justine Eyre and John Lee.

Is The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.