In the Mayor's Parlour: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

In the Mayor's Parlour, credited to J. S. Fletcher, 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 In the Mayor's Parlour by J. S. Fletcher. Read in English by Nicholas Clifford “Rotten borough” is a term that goes back to the 18th century, and it used to mean a parliamentary constituency in which a few property owners, or sometimes a single one, could choose the local member of parliament. The three Reform Acts of 1832, 1857 and 1884 brought that system to an end and by the time this book begins, a rotten borough has taken on its more modern meaning of a constituency whos rules allow a handful of people to profit secretly from the borough’s finances. In one such borough a new mayor, victor by a margin of single vote, has been working on a reform program and is found mysteriously murdered in his office -- the Mayor’s Parlour. As it happens, his young nephew is visiting from London, and is determined to find the killer. It’s no easy task, and the final discovery leaves him, as well as many others, surprised.( Nicholas Clifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: In the Mayor's Parlour
• Author credits: J. S. Fletcher
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:49:37

Catalogue topics

• hathelsborogh murder

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - In the Mayor's Parlour — 23:47
2. 02 - The Cambric Handkerchief — 20:53
3. 03 - The Tannery House — 22:43
4. 04 - Bull's Snug — 19:45
5. 05 - Sleeping Fires — 21:31
6. 06 - The Ancient Office of Coroner — 20:16
7. 07 - The Voluntary Witness — 20:28
8. 08 - Mrs. Saumarez — 21:23
9. 09 - The Right to Intervene — 21:34
10. 10 - The Cat in the Bag — 16:54
11. 11 - The Nineteen Minutes' Interval — 16:19
12. 12 - Circumstantial Evidence — 14:11
13. 13 - A Woman Intervenes — 16:10
14. 14 - Whose Voices? — 14:36
15. 15 - The Special Edition — 17:51
16. 16 - The Castle Wall — 17:57
17. 17 - Impregnable — 20:02
18. 18 - Loose Strands — 20:17
19. 19 - Black Secrets and Red Tape — 21:32
20. 20 - The Fell Hand — 17:42
21. 21 - Corruption — 17:43
22. 22 - The Parlour Maid — 14:13
23. 23 - The Connecting Wall — 19:19
24. 24 - Behind the Panel — 19:01

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