Library of World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Library of World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1, 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 World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1, by Julian Hawthorne, ed. 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 first volume, we find stories written by American authors. (Summary by Leni)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Library of World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 1
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 10:55:21

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• horror
• ghost
• American short stories.

Track guide

1. 00 - Introduction, by Julian Hawthorne — 23:52
2. 01 - By the Waters of Paradise, part 1, by Francis Marion Crawford — 21:01
3. 02 - By the Waters of Paradise, part 2, by Francis Marion Crawford — 37:06
4. 03 - The Shadow on the Wall, part 1, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman — 18:11
5. 04 - The Shadow on the Wall, part 2, by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman — 16:16
6. 05 - The Corpus Delicti, part 1, by Melville Davisson Post — 35:34
7. 06 - The Corpus Delicti, part 2, by Melville Davisson Post — 36:00
8. 07 - An Heiress from Redhorse, by Ambrose Bierce — 17:07
9. 08 - The Man and the Snake, by Ambrose Bierce — 18:09
10. 09 - The Oblong Box, by Edgar Allan Poe — 28:59
11. 10 - The Gold Bug, part 1, by Edgar Allan Poe — 46:37
12. 11 - The Gold Bug, part 2, by Edgar Allan Poe — 50:19
13. 12 - Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams, part 1, by Washington Irving — 25:17
14. 13 - Wolfert Webber, or Golden Dreams, part 2, by Washington Irving — 30:06
15. 14 - Adventure of the Black Fisherman, part 1, by Washington Irving — 32:43
16. 15 - Adventure of the Black Fisherman, part 2, by Washington Irving — 31:00
17. 16 - Wieland's Madness, part 1, by Charles Brockden Brown — 34:18
18. 17 - Wieland's Madness, part 2, by Charles Brockden Brown — 36:04
19. 18 - Wieland's Madness, part 3, by Charles Brockden Brown — 32:56
20. 19 - Wieland's Madness, part 4, by Charles Brockden Brown — 46:40
21. 20 - Wieland's Madness, part 5, by Charles Brockden Brown — 36:57

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