A Woman at Bay: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Woman at Bay, credited to Nicholas Carter, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Woman at Bay by Nicholas Carter. Read in English by VHSThompson; Gillian Hendrie; Paul Harvey; ToddHW; PatchiD; Josh Broussard; Nancy Gorgen; Jasmine; Michael Cocciolillo; Darrell Nobles; VivianWeaver; kaylawhy; Sky Asimaru; NayeliT; Flamboyant Otter; Steven Jon Peterson; lightstarx; Annie Mars Nick Carter is a fictional detective, who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". Nick is customarily to be found among the rich and powerful but in this latest offering, he is to be found with his three assistants sitting around a makeshift campfire made of railroad tires. "These four men were about as rough-looking specimens of humanity as can be imagined." Is Nick down on his luck? Or is it just another case?

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Woman at Bay
• Author credits: Nicholas Carter
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 28
• Combined MP3 track duration: 7:10:27

Catalogue topics

• railroad
• hobo

Opening tracks: first 24 of 28

1. 01 - The King of the Yeggmen — 21:26
2. 02 - The Yeggmen’s Camp Fire — 13:36
3. 03 - The 'King's' Lieutenant — 14:14
4. 04 - The Outlaw’s Home — 11:55
5. 05 - Nick’s Wonderful Strength — 21:53
6. 06 - Nick Carter Robs a Bank — 11:16
7. 07 - The Detective’s Predicament — 26:44
8. 08 - The Detectives Face a Crisis — 14:03
9. 09 - The Escape from the Swamp — 14:45
10. 10 - Escape of the Hobo Queen — 9:58
11. 11 - Patsy’s Dangerous Mission — 7:55
12. 12 - Bill Turner, the Woodsman — 19:50
13. 13 - Black Madge’s Lieutenant — 29:49
14. 14 - Black Madge Gives Judgement — 21:15
15. 15 - Nick's Cleverest Capture — 23:19
16. 16 - Nick Makes Bad Medicine — 11:51
17. 17 - A Wholesale Roundup — 9:22
18. 18 - Black Madge’s Threat — 10:49
19. 19 - The Band of Hatred — 23:04
20. 20 - A Chapter of Accidents — 9:46
21. 21 - Curly John, the Bank Thief — 12:28
22. 22 - At Mike Grinnell's Dive — 12:46
23. 23 - Black Madge's Defiance — 14:10
24. 24 - The Flight Through the Cellar — 11:39

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