The Tainted Coin: Audiobook
Book 5 of the Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon series
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Tainted Coin runs 7.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Steven Crossley (about 5.2 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 7.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 16 days |
| 1 hour / day | 8 days |
| 2 hours / day | 4 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
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What our data says
- At 7.8 hours, it is shorter than 62% of the 53,570 Mystery, Thriller & Horror audiobooks in our catalog.
Catching up on The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon
This is book 5. Books 1 to 4 run 35.7 hours before it; books 1 to 17 run 123.5 hours in all.
| Book | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Unquiet Bones | 8.9 hrs |
| 2 | A Corpse at St Andrew’s Chapel | 10.9 hrs |
| 3 | A Trail of Ink | 8.3 hrs |
| 4 | Unhallowed Ground | 7.7 hrs |
| 5 | The Tainted Coin | 7.8 hrs |
| 6 | Rest Not in Peace | 7.3 hrs |
| 7 | The Abbot’s Agreement | 8.3 hrs |
| 8 | Ashes to Ashes | 6.8 hrs |
| 9 | Lucifer’s Harvest | 4.8 hrs |
| 10 | Deeds of Darkness | 7.3 hrs |
| 11 | Prince Edward’s Warrant | 7 hrs |
| 12 | Without a Trace | 8.4 hrs |
More narrated by Steven Crossley
Steven Crossley narrates 290 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,468 hours in all.
About as long, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf
9,814 Mystery, Thriller & Horror 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 Tainted Coin is book 5 of Mel Starr's Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon series: a 7.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Steven Crossley, released July 28, 2020, on the Mystery, Thriller & Horror shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 7.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Steven Crossley
- Released
- July 28, 2020
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Mystery, Thriller & Horror
- Series
- The Chronicles of Hugh de Singleton, Surgeon #5
- ISBN
- 9781094096070
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Tainted Coin as an audiobook?
The Tainted Coin runs 7.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.2 hours.
Is The Tainted Coin free as an audiobook?
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Who narrates The Tainted Coin?
The Tainted Coin is narrated by Steven Crossley.