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    15/09/2024
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    Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh (version 2)

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    Chapter: 66 | Listen: 1

    Maud Ruthyn, the young, naive heroine, has a governess who is an enigmatic older woman, a liar, bully, and spy, who takes a dark secret with her when she leaves. Maud is then orphaned and moves in with her Uncle Silas, her father’s mysterious brother and a man with a scandalous-even murderous-past. She is horrified to find her former governess appears in her life again, in this Gothic Victorian psychological thriller, with a touch of the occult – Summary by Lynne Thompson     [chương_files]  

    15/09/2024
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    Cordelia the Magnificent

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    Chapter: 34 | Listen: 1

    Cordelia Marlowe carries a high society name but no fortune. She has to make ends meet, but what kind of work can a young lady do whose main education has been social manners and tennis? Her acts lead her in the courtships of three completely different men, but in the end, fate chooses for her, and Cordelia emerges a changed person. A tale of mystery, blackmail and love, written in just 23 days by Leroy Scott, a reporter familiar with the intrigues and social scandals the public enjoys, as the story was also made into a silent film in 1923. – Summary by Rapunzelina     [chương_files]  

    15/09/2024
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    Man with the Clubfoot

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    “The Man with the Clubfoot” is one of the most ingenious and sinister secret agents in Europe. It is to him that the task is assigned of regaining possession of an indiscreet letter written by the Kaiser. Desmond Okewood, a young British officer with a genius for secret service work, sets out to thwart this man and, incidentally, discover the whereabouts of his brother. He penetrates into Germany disguised, and meets with many thrilling adventures before he finally achieves his mission. In “The Man with the Clubfoot,” Valentine Williams has written a thrilling romance of mystery, love and intrigue, that in every sense of the word may be described as “breathless.” – Summary by from original text     [chương_files]  

    15/09/2024
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    House of Whispers

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    Chapter: 39 | Listen: 2

    This is a story about a young lady and her blind father who live in a House of Whispers. “There is a legend that those who hear the whispers die quickly and suddenly.” Story written by William Le Queux in 1910. Le Queux mainly wrote in the genres of thriller, espionage, mystery. (Summary by April6090)     [chương_files]  

    15/09/2024
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    Modern Mephistopheles

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    One of our favorite authors give us this book of lies, greed and lust. Originally published under a pen name. However, the author considered this genre as innate. A look into the machinations of human evil and its effects. – Summary by Christine Rottger     [chương_files]  

    15/09/2024
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    Casebook of Sherlock Holmes Part 1

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    And so, reader, farewell to Sherlock Holmes! These are positively the last stories. There is some disagreement as to their quality, and some claim that Conan Doyle was writing more experimentally, rather than to the conventional Sherlock Holmes formula. Not all the stories are narrated by the faithful Watson, and the stories are regarded as the darkest of the Holmes canon, with some unusual villains. Part 2 Please note: Section 5, The Adventure of the Three Gables, includes language which, though normal for the time it was written, is now regarded as highly unacceptable racial slurs. Anyone who finds this too offensive may wish to omit this story. Indeed, any listener who would understandably prefer to avoid my poor attempt at American accents, may prefer not to listen to a number of these stories. Conan Doyle seemed to like American villains. … (summary by Ruth Golding) This recording was originally published on Legamus.eu and was later released on Librivox when US copyright permitted.     [chương_files]  

    15/09/2024
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    Inside the Lines

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    Chapter: 19 | Listen: 1

    As World War I commences, a plucky young American woman in Europe on a business trip begins to realize that she may have remained too long. She and others anxious to leave for home are caught up in events swirling about them. A mysterious British officer becomes involved. This romance-tinged spy thriller begins on a train in Calais bound for Paris and ends in Gibraltar. Based on a 1915 play of the same name, the novel was adapted for the screen in a 1918 silent version and again as a “talky” in 1930. This was the third novel written by Biggers, who went on to write six Charlie Chan novels in the 1920’s and 1930’s. — Lee Smalley     [chương_files]  

    14/09/2024
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    Riddle of the Sands

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    Chapter: 30 | Listen:

    Containing many realistic details based on Childers’ own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time. The book enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I and was extremely influential. Winston Churchill later credited it as a major reason that the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow. (Summary from Wikipedia)     [chương_files]  

    14/09/2024
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    Conspiration des milliardaires

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    De l’espionnage industriel, une guerre commerciale entre les États-Unis et l’Europe (ou plutôt la France), des inventeurs qui réfléchissent aux conséquences de leur travaux et à la paix dans le monde, des péripéties et des rebondissements, un peu de romance avec quelques frustrations, tels sont les ingrédients de ce roman populaire qui comporte des personnages aux caractères très typés. – Résumé par Isad     [chương_files]  

    14/09/2024
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    False Faces

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    This is the second book in the Lone Wolf series. Michael Lanyard had turned his back on his career as gentleman-thief and started a respectable life, when World War I wrecks his life. With his family dead and the spy Ekstrom alive after all, his special skills as the Lone Wolf are needed once more, this time in the war behind enemy lines. But again, there is a mysterious woman involved… (Summary by Carolin)     [chương_files]