The best mystery audiobooks under 10 hours, ranked by the data
Ranked by weighted listener rating, the best mystery audiobook under 10 hours in our dataset is Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi: 4.57★ across 42 ratings and 5.7 estimated listening hours. We scored every published mystery audiobook under 10 hours: 127 qualify (mystery-shelved titles with full pages here), carrying 4,441 listener ratings between them. The top 20 are below. No opinions: the formula in the method note decides the order.
The top 20
Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi
About 6 days at an hour a day, 48% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Lost Letters by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 40% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
About 8 days at an hour a day, 17% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Chocolate Sabotage by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 38% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 9 days at an hour a day, 30% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes [11 stories] by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 8 days at an hour a day, 10% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Great Tulip Heist by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 38% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
About 7 days at an hour a day, 46% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
About 6 days at an hour a day, 36% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Mystery in Paris by Elisabetta Dami
About 6 days at an hour a day, 31% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 5 days at an hour a day, 47% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
About 8 days at an hour a day, 12% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
About 8 days at an hour a day, 17% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
About 9 days at an hour a day, right at the average mystery length.
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
About 7 days at an hour a day, 37% shorter than the average fantasy audiobook.
Paws off, Cheddarface! by Elisabetta Dami
About 4 days at an hour a day, 59% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side by Agatha Christie
About 8 days at an hour a day, 14% shorter than the average romance audiobook.
Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt by Elisabetta Dami
About 7 days at an hour a day, 23% shorter than the average mystery audiobook.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories] by Arthur Conan Doyle
About 10 days at an hour a day, 26% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
Darkly dreaming Dexter by Jeffry P. Lindsay
About 9 days at an hour a day, 27% shorter than the average thriller audiobook.
How this ranking works
Every published mystery audiobook under 10 hours qualifies: 127 books. Each is scored by its Open Library listener rating weighted by its rating count: score = (v·R + 50·C) ÷ (v + 50), where R is the book's rating, v its number of ratings, and C = 4.03★ the mean across all 2,178 published books we measured. Fewer ratings pull a score toward that mean, so a high rating on a handful of votes can't outrank a slightly lower one backed by hundreds. A book ranks here only when its own Open Library subject data confirms the mystery shelf; surfacing in a mystery search alone doesn't qualify it. Children's titles, memoirs and autobiographies are excluded from these rankings; they keep their regular book pages. No editorial picks, no sponsored placement. Dataset build 2026-08-17; rankings recompute with every data refresh. Full methodology · All mystery audiobooks we measured
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