Meet Barbara Rosenblat
While her style isn’t entirely comedic, Barbara Rosenblat exudes a genuine wit,
which plays especially well in her most popular works.
Top Performances
Greatest Hits
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Murder at an English Séance
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz. Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances.
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such a cute series
- By denise on 07-25-24
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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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A safari expedition in Zambia is the disguise Emily employs in order to locate a professional assassin among her fellow explorers. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary man named Cyrus.
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At last!
- By Got My Book on 05-14-11
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. This first in the series sends Emily on her first case after she successfully persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for the job.
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Masterful writing and incredible narration
- By Barbara on 01-14-12
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.
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Excellent!
- By Trishk on 06-11-04
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Murder at an English Séance
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Hidden beneath her British reserve, Edwina has a secret: she’s finished her novel and is bravely mailing the manuscript to a publisher. Beryl also has a secret: as thanks for solving a case, the American adventuress has been gifted an airplane. After swooping over the fields and hedgerows of Walmsley Parva, livestock scattering beneath her, she flamboyantly lands the plane on the village green, prompting a startled Edwina to consider a stiff gin fizz. Beryl’s aircraft is not the only disruption of village peace. Miss Dinsdale, a psychic medium, has started holding séances.
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such a cute series
- By denise on 07-25-24
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Mrs. Pollifax on Safari
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
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A safari expedition in Zambia is the disguise Emily employs in order to locate a professional assassin among her fellow explorers. Along the way, she meets an extraordinary man named Cyrus.
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At last!
- By Got My Book on 05-14-11
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The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Mrs. Virgil (Emily) Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey, was a widow with grown children. She was tired of attending her Garden Club meetings. She wanted to do something good for her country. This first in the series sends Emily on her first case after she successfully persuades a skeptical CIA recruitment officer that she is the best person for the job.
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Masterful writing and incredible narration
- By Barbara on 01-14-12
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 12
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
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In her best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries, author Elizabeth Peters has created an award-winning mixture of vivid archeological detail, finely-tuned suspense, and witty romance. This, the 12th Amelia Peabody mystery, opens in 1914. As the tides of war rise, Egypt is threatened by attacks. Espionage abounds, pulling in several members of the Peabody Emerson household even as they embark on a new archeological season.
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Excellent!
- By Trishk on 06-11-04
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The Falcon at the Portal
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 11
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
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Join spunky Amelia and her charming family for a thrilling new archaeological adventure in Edwardian Egypt. Even on the joyous occasion of the marriage of their Egyptian "son" David to their beloved niece Lia, trouble finds Amelia and hunky hubby Emerson. And this time it is personal.
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Perhaps Best of Series
- By Kermit on 12-21-05
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Murder Flies the Coop
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on the two old school chums, but money is still tight in these years following the Great War. So when the local vicar - and pigeon-racing club president - approaches them with a private inquiry opportunity, the ladies accept. There's been a spot of bother: The treasurer has absconded with the club's funds and several prized birds. But when they visit the man's loft, they find their elusive quarry lying in white feathers and a pool of crimson blood - the only witnesses cooing mournfully.
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I Do So Love This Pair Of Sleuths..!!..Hilarious Highbrow Hijinks..!!
- By John on 10-22-18
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The Curse of the Pharaohs
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 2
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
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The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody's eye as she returns for her second adventure in archaeology and romantic mystery as recounted in her lively journal, The Curse of the Pharaohs.
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Wonderful!
- By Leanna on 04-20-11
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Lion in the Valley
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 4
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
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Amelia Peabody, archaeologist and woman extraordinaire, should have greeted the approaching excavation with transports of joy. Nothing in the world could compare with exploring the muddy, musty corridors of some bat-infested pyramid. And at Dahshoor, to which she was headed, there existed some particularly fine specimens.
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A Delicious Confection
- By Coffee Lover on 11-24-05
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The Last Camel Died at Noon
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 6
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 15 hrs and 40 mins
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Amelia and Emerson leave the calm of Victorian England in search of an estranged father's son and a lost kingdom buried deep in Sudan.
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Barbara Rosenblat's narration is here!
- By Alexandra on 05-24-09
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The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 7
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 15 hrs and 15 mins
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This adventure transports Amelia Peabody and her husband Emerson to Amarna, the rustic desert site where the two archaeologists first met, beginning the 13-year association that would take them from mayhem to murder in the Egyptian outback.
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Delightful!
- By S. Dale on 07-20-04
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The Hippopotamus Pool
- The Amelia Peabody Series, Book 8
- By: Elizabeth Peters
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
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The spunky Victorian Egyptologist Amelia Peabody Emerson has returned to the exotic Nile valley. Parasol aloft and hot on the trail of an unexplored tomb, she must outwit a shadowy evildoer, a questionable antiquities dealer, and her loquacious son, Ramses.
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Desert Derring-Do
- By Kay in DC on 02-03-08
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A Palm for Mrs. Pollifax
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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Emily “vacations” at an opulent Swiss resort in the hope of locating nine pounds of hijacked plutonium intended for an atom bomb.
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Mrs Pollifax is a delight
- By Jean on 05-17-13
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Murder in an English Village
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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The year is 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in the English countryside seems just the ticket. And, honestly, until America comes to its senses and repeals Prohibition, Beryl has no intention of returning stateside and subjecting herself to bathtub gin.
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Must read Historical Mystery
- By Victoria J. Mejia-Gewe on 02-20-18
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Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Emily Pollifax accompanies her young friend Kadi back to Africa, where a mutual friend is to be crowned king of his small country. But when several people are slashed by murderous lion claws and Kadi disappears, Mrs. Pollifax must begin a perilous investigation. Fortunately for all, staunch determination and polished karate skills are on her side.
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I must not be smarter than the average bear...
- By VickiFromArkansas on 01-07-16
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Mrs. Pollifax Pursued
- By: Dorothy Gilman
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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A missing salami leads Mrs. Pollifax to a shocking discovery: a woman is hiding in her house. Even more unsettling is the revelation that ever since the young woman had a chance encounter with the heir to the throne of Ubangiba, she has been followed by deadly hit men. What do these men want?
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Fun change of plot for Mrs P novel
- By Jan on 02-15-13
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Murder in an English Glade
- Beryl and Edwina Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Jessica Ellicott
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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The year 1920: Flying in the face of convention, legendary American adventuress Beryl Helliwell never fails to surprise and shock. The last thing her adoring public would expect is that she craves some peace and quiet. The humdrum hamlet of Walmsley Parva in the English countryside seems just the ticket. And, honestly, until America comes to its senses and repeals Prohibition, Beryl has no intention of returning stateside and subjecting herself to bathtub gin.
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Not the best Beryl and Edwina adventure
- By Susan on 10-27-21
Editor's Pick
"Smart, snappy, cozy series with sublime narration."
"Barbara Rosenblat is one of my favorite narrators. Nowhere does she elevate a story more than with The Unexpected Mrs. Polifax. Dorothy Gilman started the series in 1970—the story of a garden-club wife from New Brunswick, NJ who joins the CIA in a madcap series of events—and Barbara Rosenblat narrates a dozen titles, all available at Audible. If you love John D. MacDonald or Rhys Bowen, may I suggest your next audio binge?"