Hagar of the Pawn-Shop: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop, credited to Fergus Hume, 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 Hagar of the Pawn-Shop by Fergus Hume. Read in English by Grant Hurlock Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly London pawnbroker. He dies after teaching Hagar the business, and she takes over running the popshop till the legitimate heir can be traced. In the odd assortment of objects that pass across her counter, Hagar uncovers one mystery after another. Some items are linked to actual crimes, others to iniquitous acts of human deceit and betrayal. Whether investigating independently or alongside the police, Hagar combines her native shrewdness with woman's intuition to help untangle the webs of wickedness she encounters, that justice might prevail in the end. Though the individual mysteries in Hagar of the Pawn-shop may be read separately, they are so arranged by Fergus Hume as to form a linked set, with characters from earlier stories popping up again later on, one as Hagar's love interest and another as her nemesis. - Summary by Grant Hurlock

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hagar of the Pawn-Shop
• Author credits: Fergus Hume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 8:21:58

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• London
• victorian
• gypsies
• detection
• pawnshop

Track guide

1. 01 - The Coming of Hagar — 50:58
2. 02 - The First Customer and the Florentine Dante — 44:57
3. 03 - The Second Customer and the Amber Beads — 47:00
4. 04 - The Third Customer and the Jade Idol — 37:49
5. 05 - The Fourth Customer and the Crucifix — 41:17
6. 06 - The Fifth Customer and the Copper Key — 40:40
7. 07 - The Sixth Customer and the Silver Teapot — 47:24
8. 08 - The Seventh Customer and the Mandarin — 37:27
9. 09 - The Eighth Customer and the Pair of Boots — 40:56
10. 10 - The Ninth Customer and the Casket — 36:47
11. 11 - The Tenth Customer and the Persian Ring — 37:25
12. 12 - The Passing of Hagar — 39:18

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