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The Locked Room by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö

The Locked Room: Audiobook

Book 8 of the Martin Beck Police Mysteries series

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Locked Room runs 8.5 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Tom Weiner (about 5.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

8.5listening hrs
Police & Detectivestore shelf
2009released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 8.5 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Locked Room 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 8.5 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 22,296 Police & Detective audiobooks in our catalog.

Catching up on The Martin Beck Police Mysteries

This is book 8. Books 1 to 7 run 43.7 hours before it; books 1 to 10 run 69.3 hours in all.

BookTitleLength
1Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery6.6 hrs
2The Man Who Went Up in Smoke: A Martin Beck Police Mystery5.6 hrs
3The Man on the Balcony: A Martin Beck Police Mystery5.6 hrs
4The Laughing Policeman6.7 hrs
5The Fire Engine That Disappeared: The Story of a Crime | A Martin Beck Police Story7.2 hrs
6Murder at the Savoy6.5 hrs
7The Abominable Man: A Martin Beck Police Mystery5.5 hrs
8The Locked Room8.5 hrs
9Cop Killer: A Martin Beck Police Mystery8.1 hrs
10The Terrorists: A Martin Beck Police Mystery9 hrs

About as long, on the Police & Detective shelf

5,858 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 Locked Room is book 8 of Maj Sjöwall's Martin Beck Police Mysteries series: a 8.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Tom Weiner, released October 20, 2009, on the Police & Detective shelf.

The listen at a glance

Length
8.5 hrs
Narrated by
Tom Weiner
Released
October 20, 2009
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Police & Detective
Series
The Martin Beck Police Mysteries #8
ISBN
9781481567879

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Locked Room as an audiobook?

The Locked Room runs 8.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.7 hours.

Is The Locked Room free as an audiobook?

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

Who narrates The Locked Room?

The Locked Room is narrated by Tom Weiner.