Best Mystery Audiobooks Over 30 Hours

Mystery audiobooks filtered to over 30 hours of listening time — ranked by Goodreads and Audible ratings.

Mystery audiobooks over 30 hours are immersive investigations that let you spend weeks inside a single case — or a series of interconnected ones. These marathon listens often feature beloved detective characters, sprawling conspiracies, or multi-book arcs where the narrator's performance deepens with every installment.

These are the highest-rated mystery audiobooks over 30 hours, ranked by reader and listener scores.

  1. 1
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    The Complete Stories and Poems

    by Edgar Allan Poe

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble, Peter Noble

    4.4 Goodreads (297.3K)
    4.59 Audible (29)
    36h 34m listening time • Released 2022

    Poe's complete works — the inventor of the detective story, the master of gothic horror, all in one essential collection.

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    The Count of Monte Cristo

    by Alexandre Dumas

    Narrated by Bill Homewood

    4.33 Goodreads (1.0M)
    4.8 Audible (20.5K)
    52h 41m listening time • Released 2011

    Dumas's revenge epic is one of literature's great page-turners — a man wrongly imprisoned who emerges years later with a fortune and a plan for perfect vengeance.