A Silent Witness: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Silent Witness, credited to R. Austin Freeman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of A Silent Witness by R. Austin Freeman. Read in English by Anna Simon In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the night. However, when he returns to the spot with a police officer, the corpse has disappeared. And this is just the start of a series of strange and sometimes life threatening events. Had it really been a dead man he had seen? And if so, who was it? And what is the role of the mysterious Mrs. Samway, who keeps popping up wherever he goes? He will need the help of Dr. John Thorndyke to solve this mystery. This is the fourth novel featuring R. Austin Freemans famous detective Dr. John Thorndyke. The preceding ones are also available on Librivox: The Red Thumb Mark, the Eye of Osiris (a.k.a. the Vanishing Man, both titles on LV) and The Mystery of 31 New Inn. (Summary by Anna Simon)

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Silent Witness
• Author credits: R. Austin Freeman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 10:51:29

Catalogue topics

• murder mystery
• thorndyke

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I - The Beginning of the Mystery — 19:18
2. 02 - Chapter II - The Finding of the Reliquary — 14:38
3. 03 - Chapter III - — 12:36
4. 04 - Chapter IV - Septimus Maddock, Deceased — 31:29
5. 05 - Chapter V - The Lethal Chamber — 33:25
6. 06 - Chapter VI - A Council of War — 27:23
7. 07 - Chapter VII - An Unseen Enemy — 21:05
8. 08 - Chapter VIII - It's an Ill Wind -- — 28:05
9. 09 - Chapter IX - Thorndyke takes up the Scent — 17:45
10. 10 - Chapter X - The Unheeded Warning — 18:59
11. 11 - Chapter XI - A Chapter of Accidents — 33:44
12. 12 - Chapter XII - Miss Vyne — 28:57
13. 13 - Chapter XIII - A Mysterious Stranger — 37:54
14. 14 - Chapter XIV - A Lonely Woman — 36:05
15. 15 - Chapter XV - Exit Dr. Jardine — 35:51
16. 16 - Chapter XVI - Enter Father Humperdinck — 50:02
17. 17 - Chapter XVII - The Palimpsest — 36:30
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII - A Visitor from the States — 25:00
19. 19 - Chapter XIX - Tenebrae — 27:38
20. 20 - Chapter XX - The Hue and Cry — 29:46
21. 21 - Chapter XXI - The Final Problem — 36:49
22. 22 - Chapter XXII - Thorndyke reviews the Case — 48:30

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