Madame Midas: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Madame Midas, 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 Madame Midas by Fergus Hume. Read by Lucy Burgoyne. Madame Midas is a murder mystery, In the early days of Australia, when the gold fever was at its height. Fergus Hume was born in England, the second son of Dr James Hume. At the age of three his father emigrated with his family to Dunedin, New Zealand. He was admitted to the New Zealand bar in 1885. Shortly after graduation he left for Melbourne, Australia where he obtained a post as a barristers' clerk. He began writing plays, but found it impossible to persuade the managers of the Melbourne theatres to accept or even read them. Hume was a capable writer of mystery stories, and may be looked upon as one of the precursors of the many writers of detective stories whose work was so popular in the twentieth century. (Summary Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Madame Midas
• Author credits: Fergus Hume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 13:17:24

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• madam
• midas
• fergus
• hume
• mystery
• audio books

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Prologue - Cast Up By The Sea — 18:46
2. 02 - Part 01 - Chapter 01 - The Pactolus Claim — 17:14
3. 03 - Part 01 - Chapter 02 - Slivers — 25:49
4. 04 - Part 01 - Chapter 03 - Madame Midas At Home — 18:52
5. 05 - Part 01 - Chapter 04 - The Good Samaritan — 21:27
6. 06 - Part 01 - Chapter 05 - Mammon's Treasure House — 30:38
7. 07 - Part 01 - Chapter 06 - Kitty — 26:40
8. 08 - Part 01 - Chapter 07 - Mr Villiers Pays A Visit — 21:16
9. 09 - Part 01 - Chapter 08 - Madame Midas Strikes 'Ile' — 17:01
10. 10 - Part 01 - Chapter 09 - Love's Young Dream — 26:08
11. 11 - Part 01 - Chapter 10 - Friends In Council — 34:18
12. 12 - Part 01 - Chapter 11 - Theodore Wopples, Actor — 16:01
13. 13 - Part 01 - Chapter 12 - Highway Robbery — 13:42
14. 14 - Part 01 - Chapter 13 - A Glimpse Of Bohemia — 25:09
15. 15 - Part 01 - Chapter 14 - A Mysterious Disappearance — 17:08
16. 16 - Part 01 - Chapter 15 - Slivers In Search Of Evidence — 21:00
17. 17 - Part 01 - Chapter 16 - McIntosh Speaks His Mind — 19:15
18. 18 - Part 01 - Chapter 17 - The Best Of Friends Must Part — 18:42
19. 19 - Part 01 - Chapter 18 - M. Vandeloup Is Unjustly Suspected — 19:49
20. 20 - Part 01 - Chapter 19 - The Devils Lead — 16:55
21. 21 - Part 02 - Chapter 01 - Tempus Fugit — 13:37
22. 22 - Part 02 - Chapter 02 - Disenchantment — 23:23
23. 23 - Part 02 - Chapter 03 - M. Vandeloup Hears Something To His Advantage — 18:45
24. 24 - Part 02 - Chapter 04 - The Case Of Adele Blondet — 29:54

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