It Walks By Night: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

It Walks By Night, credited to John Dickson Carr, 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 It Walks By Night by John Dickson Carr. Read in English by Ben Tucker. A ghastly crime... Monsieur de Saligny was found in a card-room of a gambling palace and secret opium den, knelt in supplication, the bloody stump where his head should have been bowed forward and resting on the floor. The head lay propped up facing toward the door several feet away. No one was seen entering or leaving the room between when M. de Saligny entered the room and when the body was discovered. Will shrewd detective Bencolin be able to solve the first whodunnit penned by the master of the locked room mystery, John Dickson Carr? (Summary by Ben Tucker)

Recording facts

• Recording title: It Walks By Night
• Author credits: John Dickson Carr
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 6:42:45

Catalogue topics

• locked room mystery
• golden age mystery
• henri bencolin

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I. The Patron of Gravediggers — 21:48
2. 02 - Chapter II. It Walks by Night — 21:08
3. 03 - Chapter III. The Head That Lay Under the Lamp — 18:56
4. 04 - Chapter IV. We Determine the Position of the Puppets — 24:12
5. 05 - Chapter V. "Alice in Wonderland" — 23:09
6. 06 - Chapter VI. In the Black Parlours — 18:28
7. 07 - Chapter VII. An Appointment With the Worms — 17:13
8. 08 - Chapter VIII. "We Talked of Poe" — 24:37
9. 09 - Chapter IX. The Shadow of the Murderer — 24:20
10. 10 - Chapter X. Bencolin Weaves — 19:41
11. 11 - Chapter XI. Swordplay — 20:37
12. 12 - Chapter XII. A Hand is Motionless Beneath the Cypress — 22:13
13. 13 - Chapter XIII. Death at Versailles — 23:45
14. 14 - Chapter XIV. "The Silver Mask" — 21:19
15. 15 - Chapter XV. When the Wall Fell — 18:49
16. 16 - Chapter XVI. How a Man Spoke From a Coffin — 25:14
17. 17 - Chapter XVII. We Hear the Name of the Killer — 11:37
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII. The Last Battle — 22:24
19. 19 - Chapter XIX. The Hour of Triumph — 23:15

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