Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories, credited to Thomas Furlong, 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 Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories by Thomas Furlong. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Hitherto unpublished facts connected with some of Mr. Furlong's greatest cases—Other interesting incidents of his long and strenuous career which really began on September 14, 1862, when he was detailed from his company, (Co. G., 1st Pennsylvania Rifles, better known as the Pennsylvania Bucktails) for special service. - Summary from the Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories
• Author credits: Thomas Furlong
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 36
• Listed recording duration: 11:25:12

Opening tracks: first 24 of 36

1. 01 - Preface — 3:27
2. 02 - Side-Lights on the Business — 6:48
3. 03 - The Preller Murder Case Part 1 — 31:07
4. 04 - The Preller Murder Case Part 2 — 27:48
5. 05 - The Big Cotton Swindle — 52:26
6. 06 - A Remarkable Case — 21:29
7. 07 - Tracing Train Wreckers — 28:06
8. 08 - Moonshining in the Oil Regions — 11:50
9. 09 - The Capture of Wess Watts — 45:52
10. 10 - Solving a Trunk Mystery — 14:35
11. 11 - The Glencoe Train Robbery — 13:28
12. 12 - Running Down the Revolutionists — 22:23
13. 13 - A Dallas Murder Avenged — 25:13
14. 14 - The Toughest of Tough Towns — 35:18
15. 15 - The Rohan Express Robbery — 15:13
16. 16 - Arrest of Lawrence Poyneer — 7:19
17. 17 - Ticket Forgers Run Down — 10:15
18. 18 - Conviction of John Collins — 16:55
19. 19 - Fred Erfert's Fall from Grace — 21:57
20. 20 - Battle with Would-Be Bandits — 18:44
21. 21 - The Great Pittsburg Strike — 15:39
22. 22 - Murder of Conductor Frazier — 22:30
23. 23 - Fight with a Maniac — 5:16
24. 24 - Decoying a Bad Man — 32:01

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