The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught by Charles C. Nott audiobook. Genre: mystery Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true author of the U.S. Constitution, although most likely James Madison would vehemently argue the point. This book investigates what may, or may not have happened to the draft of the Constitution which was drawn up by Cha...
Nov 04, 2022•7 hr 36 min•Ep. 507
History of Billy the Kid by Charles A. Siringo audiobook. Genre: biography A cowboy outlaw whose youthful daring has never been equalled in the annals of criminal history. When a bullet pierced his heart he was less than twenty-two years of age, and had killed twenty-one men, Indians not included. The author feels that he is capable of writing a true and unvarnished history of 'Billy the Kid,' as he was personally acquainted with him, and assisted in his capture, by furnishing Sheriff Pat Garret...
Nov 01, 2022•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 506
The Mystery Girl by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Was it murder or suicide? All entrances to the study where the body was found were locked from the inside. The future college president and groom-to-be had no known cause for suicide, yet no clues in either direction appeared to make any sense. Was Anita, the Mystery Girl, who had just arrived in the New England college town, somehow been implicated? Had she any reason to ensure of the demise of the well-liked man? Perhaps some love let...
Nov 01, 2022•8 hr 22 min•Ep. 505
The Clue by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Once Carolyn Wells began, or re-invented her writing career, 'The Clue' was her initial book which strayed from children's writings into mysteries and detective stories. It is also when we are introduced to her most famous of detectives, Fleming Stone. On the eve of her wedding day, Madeleine Van Norman, a beautiful young lady who is soon to come into her family fortune is found dead, apparently stabbed with an ominous blood-stained letter open...
Nov 01, 2022•8 hr 16 min•Ep. 504
Deep Lake Mystery by Carolyn Wells audiobook. Genre: mystery Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of exit, excepting a dangerous plunge through a window into a deep, foreboding lake with swirling eddies and rocks abound. Add to that image a wreath of flowers around the head and across the chest of the victim, a crucifix, an orange, a feather scarf tucked in here and there, two crackers, a handkerc...
Nov 01, 2022•8 hr 46 min•Ep. 503
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi audiobook. Genre: fantasy This is the wonderful story of Pinocchio, the puppet who must learn many lessons before he can become a real boy. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he dreamed of becoming a real boy but strays from the path of goodness many times and is very willing to listen to temptation. He has also been used as a character who is prone to telling lies and fabricating stories for various reasons. The story has appeared in man...
Nov 01, 2022•5 hr 14 min•Ep. 502
Venus Has Green Eyes by Carl Selwyn audiobook. Genre: scifi Flip Miller was a man about the universe, surviving one harrowing escapade after another and seeking for the lucky break that would make his fortune. Finally he had found in in a scrap of a map to a lost mine on Venus. Only he was foolish enough to search it out in the steaming jungle of that mud covered planet. But it was true and unbelievable riches were soon to be his. Well, as soon as he could get a ride out of the mud island where ...
Oct 28, 2022•44 min•Ep. 501
Cosmic Castaway by Carl Richard Jacobi audiobook. Genre: scifi Earth has less than a year before the Sirians tighten their grip and turn humanity into a conquered vassal. Mason Standish, an Earth defense engineer with the knowledge to stop the invasion, should be leading the fight - but instead he wakes amid the wreckage of a Sirian prison ship, the lone survivor, stranded on an unknown world far off the Sirius-Earth route. The planet can be breathed, but it is anything but safe: migrating beast...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 500
Giants on the Earth by Captain S. P. Meek audiobook. Genre: scifi The Earth is ruled by cruel Jovian overlords and has been for 40 years. Earthlings are slaves who seethe with anger but are helpless in view of the Jovian's disintegrating ray weapons compared to their own swords. Will Earth be doomed to suffer this tragedy forever, and if not, who will take this yoke from their necks? Damis, the half-breed product of a Jovian father and earthling mother, that's who! Listen and find out how he doe...
Oct 28, 2022•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 499
Where the Path Breaks by Captain Charles de Crespigny audiobook. Genre: adventure The soldier awakened from the brink of death eight months after his injury on the battlefield. As he slowly regained his senses and his memory, the face of a girl creeps into his mind, and he soon recalls that this girl had married him out of pity on the day he went into battle. The wedding had been a true 'war wedding'. Inspired by the face and the vague recollections which were taking shape, and after learning th...
Oct 28, 2022•6 hr 6 min•Ep. 498
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker audiobook. Genre: horror In The Jewel of Seven Stars, Bram Stoker turns from the vampire-haunted nights of Transylvania to the dust and incense of Egyptology, where the past refuses to stay buried. Malcolm Ross, a young Englishman drawn into an unusual household, finds himself at the center of a tense and glittering mystery when the celebrated archaeologist Abel Trelawny is discovered grievously injured beside an ancient, newly acquired mummy. As Ross and ...
Oct 27, 2022•10 hr 35 min•Ep. 497
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington audiobook. Genre: biography Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pu...
Oct 27, 2022•7 hr 16 min•Ep. 496
The Land of Frozen Suns by Bertrand W. Sinclair audiobook. Genre: adventure Bertrand W. Sinclair was known for his novels which centered in and around the rugged and frozen terrain of Montana and later, British Columbia. The Land of Frozen Suns is primarily an action and adventure novel which takes place near the northern most reaches of British Columbia at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Bob Sumner, after having been shanghaied onto a boat heading north up the Mississippi from his comfort...
Oct 27, 2022•6 hr 53 min•Ep. 495
The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair audiobook. Genre: drama Robert Hollister comes home from World War I carrying the kind of wound no medal can redeem: a face so scarred that strangers flinch, old friends do not recognize him, and ordinary life turns into a daily humiliation. Officially, he is dead. In practice, he is alive long enough to learn that his wife, Myra, has remarried, his property has slipped away, and the future he planned has vanished. With nothing left to anchor him in the ...
Oct 27, 2022•10 hr 4 min•Ep. 494
The Heath Hover Mystery by Bertram Mitford audiobook. Genre: mystery A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a pond. Legends abound regarding Heath Hover; legends such as one's inability to spend a full night at the Heath on certain nights of the year, and that the place was quite simply.... haunted. These were legends which Mervyn has set out to disprove. He would, however, soon find that these we...
Oct 27, 2022•10 hr 10 min•Ep. 493
Gargoyles by Ben Hecht audiobook. Genre: drama The author, Ben Hecht, was a prolific writer as well as a renowned screenwriter, producer, and director of films. His screenwriting skills include some of the most popular films of Hollywood's golden era, including 'Gone With the Wind', 'Wuthering Heights', 'Spellbound', and 'Scarface', to name but a few. Hecht had already established himself as a novelist and an author of short stories when 'Gargoyles' was published. 'Gargoyles' delves deep into th...
Oct 27, 2022•12 hr 16 min•Ep. 492
Officer 666 by Barton Wood Currie audiobook. Genre: comedy In this brisk early-1900s farce by Barton Wood Currie (with Augustin McHugh), New York society becomes a stage for the boldest kind of amateur heroics. Travers Gladwin, restless heir to a fortune and tired of being treated like a decorative idler, discovers that a celebrated art burglar has set his sights on the Gladwin home and its prized paintings. Instead of quietly alerting the authorities, Travers grabs a borrowed police uniform and...
Oct 27, 2022•8 hr 5 min•Ep. 491
Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower audiobook. Genre: adventure Val had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, envisioning a life of wedded bliss, freedom, and was anticipating happiness in her adopted part of the country. She would soon learn that the winters could be cruel and lonesome for a woman living on a ranch which was situated miles from the nearest neighbor. She would learn that her husband spent most of his time drinking. And she would learn that everybody has their own methods of d...
Oct 27, 2022•8 hr 54 min•Ep. 490
The House of the White Shadows by B. L. Farjeon audiobook. Genre: mystery Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a belief that he may have been aware of it before the trial commenced, yet they are endeared to the man and his family as upstanding and of the highest grade? Might it not become cause for blackmail, and therefore...
Oct 26, 2022•17 hr 2 min•Ep. 489
The Hill of Dreams by Arthur Machen audiobook. Genre: horror The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in rural Wales, in a town based on Caerleon. The Hill of Dreams of the title is an old Roman fort where Lucian has strange sensual visions, including ones of the town in the time of Roman Britain. Later it describes Lucian's attempts to make a living as an author in London, enduring poverty and suffering in the pursuit of art. Generally thought ...
Oct 26, 2022•7 hr 15 min•Ep. 488
The Poisoned Pen by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American mystery writer who created 82 Craig Kennedy mystery stories. The stories have a very Sherlock Holmes type feel, In fact Kennedy has been referred to as the 'American Sherlock Holmes'. Along with his reporter friend, Walter Jameson, Kennedy solves many crimes and unveils mysteries using science. T...
Oct 26, 2022•10 hr 29 min•Ep. 487
The Master Mystery by Arthur B. Reeve audiobook. Genre: mystery While Harry Houdini didn't rise to fame as a screen actor, silent film makers of the day sought to capitalize on his fame. The Master Mystery was Houdini's first such attempt, and it was embraced by the viewing public, leading to other screen roles following. The hero (or superhero) is Quentin Locke, scientist, agent of the U.S. Justice Department, and not surprisingly, an escape artist extraordinaire. The Master Mystery follows age...
Oct 26, 2022•8 hr 6 min•Ep. 486
The Card by Arnold Bennett audiobook. Genre: comedy The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery towns (which Arnold Bennett christened ‘The Five Towns’) of the English Midlands; how, by his own wits, enterprise and ‘nerve’ he rose to wealth, married bliss and public recognition as the youngest-ev...
Oct 26, 2022•8 hr 11 min•Ep. 485
Peace by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy The 'Peace' was brought out four years after 'The Acharnians' (422 B.C.), when the War had already lasted ten years. The leading motive is the same as in the former play—the intense desire of the less excitable and more moderate-minded citizens for relief from the miseries of war. Trygaeus, a rustic patriot, finding no help in men, resolves to ascend to heaven to expostulate personally with Zeus for allowing this wretched state of things to continue...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 484
Lysistrata by Aristophanes audiobook. Genre: comedy In war-weary Athens, the sharp-witted Lysistrata is done waiting for the men to come to their senses. With the Peloponnesian War grinding on and families strained by endless campaigning, she proposes an audacious plan: unite the women of Greece - even longtime rivals from Sparta - and use the one leverage the men cannot ignore to force peace talks. As reluctant friends like Calonice are drawn into the scheme, and formidable allies like the Spar...
Oct 26, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 483
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: comedy This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barchester Towers' is very much a sequel to the first book ‘The Warden’, which is also available from Librivox. The old bishop dies, the archdeacon, Dr. Grantly fails to succeed him and a new bishop, Dr. Proudie is appointed. Dr. Grantly gains a worthy foe, not the new bishop but his wife, Mrs. Proudie...
Oct 26, 2022•22 hr 39 min•Ep. 482
The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope audiobook. Genre: adventure When English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the small European kingdom of Ruritania for a holiday, he makes a startling discovery: he is the near-perfect double of the soon-to-be-crowned King Rudolf V. What begins as an odd coincidence turns into a dangerous summons when the king is kidnapped on the eve of his coronation by his scheming half-brother, Duke Michael, who intends to seize the throne for himself. With the kingd...
Oct 25, 2022•5 hr 55 min•Ep. 481
The Citizen’s Almanac by Anonymous audiobook. Genre: history This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols and anthems of the United States. 'Today you are a citizen of the United States of America— becoming “a peer of kings” as President Calvin Coolidge once said. This occasion is a defining moment that should not soon be forgotten, for it marks the beginning of a new era in your lifetime as a U.S. citiz...
Oct 25, 2022•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 480
Three Thousand Dollars by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In bustling New York, a tidy office routine shatters when three thousand dollars vanishes from the secure keeping of Mr. Stoughton, a man whose business depends on discretion and control. The disappearance is more than a missing sum - it is a message that someone understands the office's habits, its quiet vulnerabilities, and the private pressures of the people who work there. At the center is Grace Lee, Mr. Stoughton's cap...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 479
Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang audiobook. Genre: folklore Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's 'Coloured' Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in th...
Oct 25, 2022•10 hr•Ep. 478
