The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Jimmy Pitt has money, charm, and a dangerous surplus of curiosity. Fresh from New York nightlife and a new obsession with gentleman-thief stage heroes, he talks himself into a reckless wager: prove that any man can pull off a burglary. With the help of Spike Mullins, a down-at-heels small-time crook who takes Jimmy far too seriously as a master cracksman, Jimmy breaks into the wrong house and collides with police-captain-turned-s...
Mar 10, 2023•7 hr 54 min•Ep. 867
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse audiobook. Genre: comedy Bertram Wooster's manservant, Jeeves, is renown for his ability to apply his keen intellect to solve all problems domestic, and Bertie's friends and relatives flock to him for his counsel. But Wooster, jealous of Jeeves's fame, decides to step in and take over as the fixer of his pal's engagement, his aunt's gambling debts and old school-mate's desire to propose marriage. How far will Bertie sink them all in the soup? Will Jeeves come ...
Mar 10, 2023•8 hr 10 min•Ep. 866
A Dog of Flanders by Ouida audiobook. Genre: tragedy In a quiet Flemish village near Antwerp, a poor orphan boy named Nello and his loyal dog Patrasche struggle to survive on the edges of society. Taken in by his kindly grandfather, Nello earns a few coins delivering milk and doing odd jobs, while Patrasche, once abused and overworked, becomes both companion and partner in their daily labor. Nello's one true refuge is art: he sketches whenever he can, dreaming of a future beyond hunger and hard ...
Mar 10, 2023•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 865
The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: fantasy To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends away his soul. From a Witch, the Fisherman learns how to send his soul away. The Soul makes several attempts to persuade the Fisherman to take him back, eventually convincing him to do ...
Mar 09, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 864
Lady Windermere’s Fan by Oscar Wilde audiobook. Genre: comedy In Victorian London, the impeccably proper Lady Windermere is preparing for her coming-of-age birthday ball when a troubling rumor reaches her ears: her husband, Lord Windermere, has been seen paying large sums of money to a mysterious older woman, Mrs. Erlynne. To Lady Windermere, whose pride rests on strict ideals of morality and reputation, the implication feels unmistakable - betrayal. As society buzzes with speculation, Lord Wind...
Mar 09, 2023•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 863
Midnight by Octavus Roy Cohen audiobook. Genre: mystery On a bitter December night, taxi driver Spike Walters is just trying to finish his shift in a city locked in sleet and cold. Then a veiled, well-dressed woman hails his cab at Union Station, gives a quiet address, and rides in silence. Minutes later, at the destination, Spike turns to collect his fare and finds the impossible: his passenger has vanished, a suitcase sits where she had been, and a dead man is slumped in the back seat. The vic...
Mar 09, 2023•6 hr 33 min•Ep. 862
A Network of Crime by Nicholas Carter audiobook. Genre: mystery When a frantic phone call reaches Nick Carter's Madison Avenue home, his junior assistant Patsy Garvan learns that Frank Mantell needs the famous detective at once: there is half a million dollars at stake, and time is running out. But Nick and his chief assistant, Chick Carter, are already on another urgent assignment - a brutal double murder in a quiet Manhattanville house that should have been empty. Inside, the evidence points t...
Mar 09, 2023•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 861
The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne audiobook. Genre: folklore Set among the granite peaks, deep notches, and sudden storms of New Hampshire's White Mountains, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Great Stone Face and Other Tales of the White Mountains gathers a haunting set of legends that blend New England landscape with moral wonder. The centerpiece tale follows Ernest, a humble village boy who grows to manhood beneath the shadow of the Great Stone Face, a ...
Mar 08, 2023•2 hr 29 min•Ep. 860
The Wailing Asteroid by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi There was no life on the asteroid, but the miles of rock-hewn corridors through which the earth party wandered left no doubt about the purpose of the asteroid. It was a mighty fortress, stocked with weapons of destruction beyond man's power to understand. And yet there was no life here, nor had there been for untold centuries. What race had built this stronghold? What unimaginable power were they defending against? Why was it abando...
Mar 08, 2023•6 hr 22 min•Ep. 859
The Red Dust by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi You who have read 'The Mad Planet' by Murray Leinster, will welcome the sequel to that story. The world, in a far distant future, is peopled with huge insects and titanic fungus growths. Life has been greatly altered, and tiny Man is now in the process of becoming acclimated to the change. We again meet our hero Burl, but this time a far greater danger menaces the human race. The huge insects are still in evidence, but the terror they inspi...
Mar 08, 2023•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 858
The Mad Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi It is 30,000 years following dramatically changed climate conditions on earth which had let massive amounts of carbon dioxide belch from the interior of the planet into the atmosphere. Over the millenia this would have quite devastating effects on life as it had once been known. Much of the human and animal population would not survive the climate change, and indeed those few humans who did survive knew nothing of all which their predeces...
Mar 08, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Ep. 857
The Machine that Saved the World by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this? In the far future of 1972, on a secret military installation, Staff Sergeant Bellews is an expert on the latest scientific discovery: a way for ordinary machines like vacuums and lawnmowers to gather experience in their jobs, becoming error...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 856
The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Long ago, human seed-ships arrived at a barren world to begin a slow, deliberate experiment: first microbes, then plants and insects, and later, a final shipment of animals to complete a living ecosystem. But the last mission never came, and in the silence of millennia the planet's unchecked life runs wild, with fungi spreading like forests and insects swelling into monstrous proportions. When a space liner is wrecked on this half-m...
Mar 07, 2023•7 hr 18 min•Ep. 855
The Deadly Dust by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Geiger counters across the United States begin to spike, and a fine, drifting fall of dust turns out to be something far worse than dirt on the wind: invisible, spreading radioactivity. Dr. David Murfree, a quiet government scientist who recognizes the pattern too quickly for anyone's comfort, tries to sound the alarm - only to find that procedure, permissions, and office politics move slower than a contaminated weather front. Desperate,...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 854
The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi In a town where racketeer Big Jake Connors seems untouchable, Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald has learned to live with frustration. Witnesses clam up, judges get leaned on, and every honest cop knows the score: Connors takes over businesses by intimidation and bribery, and the law arrives just in time to pick up the pieces. Then something changes. After a small dry-cleaning shop refuses Connors' so-called protection, the usual...
Mar 07, 2023•59 min•Ep. 853
The Aliens by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered on planets everywhere, some very recent, but the aliens themselves were never encountered. They were obviously just as advanced technologically as humans and obviously looking for planets to expand to, just like humans. But what would happen when the two races, human and alien met? From history...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 852
Tanks by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Tanks and the future of war is what Murray Leinster speculates about in this story. Written in the 1920's he observed the terrible new inventions that were used in World War I to kill people, armored tanks and poisoned gas and then tells us how war will be fought in the future. In this case the war will occur in 1932 and be between the US and the 'Yellow enemy'. It was published in the very first issue of Astounding Stories of Super Science, Janua...
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 851
Talents, Incorporated by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Kandar is days away from conquest by Mekin, a ruthless interplanetary power that has already bent more than twenty worlds to its will. Young Captain Bors, a grim officer in Kandar's tiny space navy and an exile from a previously subjugated planet, spends the final hours before invasion doing what defeated governments do best: burning records, preparing evacuations, and waiting to die well in a battle he cannot win. Then an unexpect...
Mar 07, 2023•6 hr 19 min•Ep. 850
Space Tug by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi In the early days of spaceflight, Joe Kenmore has already helped put the first Space Platform into orbit, a landmark satellite that could open the way to the stars and shift the balance of power on Earth. Now he is assigned to a new and more dangerous job: crewing a hard working space tug that must ferry supplies, equipment, and defensive systems up to the Platform while rival nations and hidden saboteurs look for any chance to bring the proje...
Mar 07, 2023•6 hr 29 min•Ep. 849
Space Platform by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi In a near-future America where the next war could be atomic, a single engineering project has become more urgent than any weapon: an orbital Space Platform, a waystation for deeper exploration and a watchtower meant to keep global tensions from tipping into catastrophe. Young Joe Kenmore is no headline hero, just a capable, stubbornly responsible technician with a critical job: deliver and install the pilot gyros that will let the Platfor...
Mar 06, 2023•6 hr 34 min•Ep. 848
Sand Doom by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Senior Colonial Survey officer Bordman expects a routine assignment: ride the freighter Warlock down to Xosa II, inspect a minerals colony that should be nearly complete, and file the report that will open the planet to regular traffic. Instead, the Warlock brakes into orbit under emergency rockets and dumps its only two passengers, Bordman and the sharp-witted Aletha Redfeather, into a cramped landing boat. On the ground, the explanation is a...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 59 min•Ep. 847
Planet of Dread by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Humans have expanded to myriads of worlds throughout the galaxies but they have found that the only way for colonies to be self sustaining, was to reproduce the total ecology of their home world; the original Earth. This meant bringing the entire ecosystem, the good, the bad and the ugly. Viruses as well as grass, goats as well as stink bugs and allowing the whole mixture to ultimately produce an inhabitable world for humans. But what ha...
Mar 06, 2023•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 846
Pariah Planet by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of millions and endangered the Galactic peace. But the Med Service ship Aesculapius 20 with Calhoun and Murgatroyd the Tormal aboard are on the job and have stumbled into the horrible mess caused by unreasoning hatred, quarantine, mass starvation and worse. Calhoun must use all his medical knowledge and significa...
Mar 06, 2023•4 hr 9 min•Ep. 845
Operation - Outer Space by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi In a crowded, restless future where every rooftop is a recreation deck and every job feels precarious, television producer Jed Cochrane has learned to sell spectacle for a living. So when he is abruptly pulled into a hush-hush government project, he expects another staged event to package for the masses. Instead, a strange therapeutic experiment led by psychiatrist Dr. William Holden and centered on a brilliant, troubled scientis...
Mar 06, 2023•6 hr 59 min•Ep. 844
Med Ship Man by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi On the interstellar frontier, the Interstellar Medical Service sends its Med Ships where no one else will go: to backward worlds, tense border systems, and isolated colonies whose problems can spread faster than any plague. Calhoun, a young physician assigned to the Med Ship Aesclipus Twenty, is trained to treat both bodies and societies, but his most important tool is not a scalpel - its judgment. With his small ship, a mobile hospital, an...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 843
Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi Orejas de ellos, 'the things that listen', whispered the superstitious fishermen when the strange occurrences began off the Philippine coast. How else explain the sudden disappearance of a vessel beneath a mysterious curtain of foam? The writhings of thousands of maddened fish trapped in a coffin-like area of ocean? What monsters gorged at the bottom of the Luzon Deep and what were their plans? Radar expert Terry Holt and the crew...
Mar 06, 2023•5 hr 46 min•Ep. 842
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan intent on ruling the entire world has other ideas. In his super fast helicopter (the Black Flyer) he sorties out to block the major ports and rives of the world until all nations with icebergs made by his fiendishly clever devices until they admit his supremacy and kneel before his might. ...
Mar 01, 2023•2 hr 46 min•Ep. 841
A Matter of Importance by Murray Leinster audiobook. Genre: scifi The importance of a matter is almost entirely a matter of your attitude. And whether you call something 'a riot' or 'a war' ... well, there is a difference, but what is it? Someone steals a space ship? The local police know how to handle that. A broken down freighter in a far distant solar system? That's their normal job too. A bunch of idiots want to start a war? Just another days' work for the boys in blue. The twisted mind of M...
Mar 01, 2023•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 840
Lady’s Life on a Farm in Manitoba by Mrs. Cecil Hall audiobook. Genre: biography In 1881, Mrs. Cecil Hall's brother went to Manitoba to farm. In 1882, she went out for a visit of some two months, and followed that visit with a long sojourn in Colorado, returning to England as the snows began to fall. While there, she had to give up her 'Lady's ways' and help on the farm in many ways she'd never stoop to at home. She makes hay, cooks, paints the barn roof, and cleans. Through it all, the newness ...
Mar 01, 2023•3 hr 30 min•Ep. 839
The House by the Lock by Mrs. C. N. Williamson audiobook. Genre: mystery What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to determine who the killer might be is more than merely the disappearance of his American friend Harvey Farnham. He has reason to believe that the wealthy and influential owner of ...
Mar 01, 2023•6 hr 26 min•Ep. 838
