Dope: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Dope, credited to Sax Rohmer, 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 Dope by Sax Rohmer. Read in English by volunteer readers. A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disappeared. New Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Red Kerry scours post-WWI London looking for clues, encountering rich Bohemians, theatre people, landed gentry, sailors, and, stereotypically, sinister Chinese people and sneaky Jews. The story is based on the history of Billie Carleton, a young English actress whose scandalous lifestyle ended with her death from a drug overdose in 1918. (Note that this work contains dated material and attitudes which may be offensive to listeners.) - Summary by TriciaG

Recording facts

• Recording title: Dope
• Author credits: Sax Rohmer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 43
• Listed recording duration: 9:39:44

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Detective
• Mystery
• drugs
• opium

Opening tracks: first 24 of 43

1. 01 - Part First—Kazmah the Dream-Reader Chapter I. A Message for Irvin — 10:18
2. 02 - Chapter II. The Apartments of Kazmah — 10:10
3. 03 - Chapter III. Kazmah — 7:45
4. 04 - Chapter IV. The Closed Door — 14:05
5. 05 - Chapter V. The Door Is Opened — 15:39
6. 06 - Chapter VI. Red Kerry — 19:10
7. 07 - Chapter VII. Further Evidence — 6:41
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. Kerry Consults the Oracle — 15:40
9. 09 - Chapter IX. A Packet of Cigarettes — 8:39
10. 10 - Chapter X. Sir Lucien's Study Window — 10:41
11. 11 - Chapter XI. The Drug Syndicate — 14:59
12. 12 - Part Second—Mrs. Sin Chapter XII. The Maid of the Masque — 14:44
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. A Chandu Party — 13:35
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. In the Shade of the Lonely Palm — 15:16
15. 15 - Chapter XV. Metamorphosis — 12:13
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. Limehouse — 17:15
17. 17 - Chapter XVII. The Black Smoke — 14:21
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. The Dream of Sin Sin Wa — 14:51
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. The Traffic — 13:13
20. 20 - Chapter XX. Kazmah's Methods — 13:16
21. 21 - Chapter XXI. The Cigarettes from Buenos Ayres — 15:51
22. 22 - Chapter XXII. The Strangle-Hold — 12:06
23. 23 - Part Third—The Man from Whitehall Chapter XXIII. Chief Inspector Kerry Resigns — 14:37
24. 24 - Chapter XXIV. To Introduce 719 — 9:49

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