Coffee Break Collection 16 -- Crime: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Coffee Break Collection 16 -- Crime, credited to Various, 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 Coffee Break Collection 16 -- Crime by Various. Read in English by DrPGould; Craig Campbell; Colleen McMahon; VfkaBT; BettyB; Lynne T; Patrick Wallace This is the sixteenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between about 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have a few minutes to devote to listening. The theme for this collection is "Crime", where crime or criminals are significant. Librivox readers have chosen a combination of social commentaries, newspaper reports of true crimes and criminals, letters, fictional accounts of the life of the criminal and short 'whodunnit' mysteries. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Coffee Break Collection 16 -- Crime
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 15
• Listed recording duration: 2:15:20

Catalogue topics

• Detective
• Mystery
• Crime
• criminals
• theft
• prison
• murderer
• captain kidd

Track guide

1. 01 - After the Crime Part 1 by Constant Gueroult — 14:38
2. 02 - After the Crime Part 2 by Constant Gueroult — 14:35
3. 03 - Asexualization: Excerpt from Causes and Cures of Crime, by Thomas Speed Mosby b 1874 — 12:06
4. 04 - 'Brooklyn Girl Robbed' by anonymous from the New York Times, May 27, 1900. — 3:43
5. 05 - Captain Charles Bellamy, by Philip Gosse, 1879-1959 — 4:22
6. 06 - Circumstantial Account of the Life, Trial, Piracies, and Execution of Captain John Kidd, who was hanged at Execution Dock by William Jackson, Esq. — 12:11
7. 07 - Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) 61~113 — 8:05
8. 08 - 'Eneas O'Hagan, the Irish Outlaw' by S.W. 1836 — 11:33
9. 09 - The Female Criminal by Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) — 5:18
10. 10 - How Nuth Would Have Practiced his Art Upon the Gnoles by Lord Dunsany — 10:42
11. 11 - Murder at the Lake by H.A. Ripley — 2:41
12. 12 - The Narrative of a London Sneak or Common Thief by John Binney — 11:23
13. 13 - Office for Victims of Crime by U.S. Department of Justice 1993 — 18:22
14. 14 - On The Scent by Harold Austin Ripley b. 1896 — 2:22
15. 15 - The Perfect Crime by H.A. Ripley — 3:19

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