Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5, credited to Various, 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 Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5, by Julian Hawthorne, editor. In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first time translated into English, and many of them come from unexpected sources, such as the letters of Pliny the Younger, or a Tibetan manuscript. In the fifth volume, we find stories written by German, Russian and Scandinavian authors. (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 5
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 11:00:58

Catalogue topics

• short stories
• mystery
• detective
• Scandinavian authors.

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Man on the Bottle, by Gustav Meyrink — 13:18
2. 02 - Christian Lahusen's Baron, by Dietrich Theden, part 1 — 21:03
3. 03 - Christian Lahusen's Baron, by Dietrich Theden, part 2 — 22:38
4. 04 - Andrea Delfin, by Paul Heyse, part 1 — 26:29
5. 05 - Andrea Delfin, by Paul Heyse, part 2 — 28:41
6. 06 - Andrea Delfin, by Paul Heyse, part 3 — 31:17
7. 07 - Andrea Delfin, by Paul Heyse, part 4 — 29:55
8. 08 - The Singer, by Wilhelm Hauff, part 1 — 21:33
9. 09 - The Singer, by Wilhelm Hauff, part 2 — 17:52
10. 10 - The Singer, by Wilhelm Hauff, part 3 — 29:12
11. 11 - The Singer, by Wilhelm Hauff, part 4 — 28:51
12. 12 - The Deserted House, by Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, part 1 — 40:09
13. 13 - The Deserted House, by Ernest Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, part 2 — 24:13
14. 14 - The Safety Match, by Anton Chekhov, part 1 — 28:35
15. 15 - The Safety Match, by Anton Chekhov, part 2 — 21:13
16. 16 - Knights of Industry, by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, part 1 — 23:50
17. 17 - Knights of Industry, by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, part 2 — 22:13
18. 18 - Knights of Industry, by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, part 3 — 23:17
19. 19 - Knights of Industry, by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, part 4 — 21:35
20. 20 - Knights of Industry, by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, part 5 — 23:07
21. 21 - Knights of Industry, by Vsevolod Vladimirovitch Krestovski, part 6 — 22:21
22. 22 -The Amputated Arms, by Jorgen Wilhelm Bergsoe — 36:13
23. 23 - The Manuscript, by Otto Larssen — 22:21
24. 24 - The Sealed Room, by Bernhard Severin Ingemann — 12:45

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