Miss Frances Baird, Detective: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Miss Frances Baird, Detective, credited to Reginald Wright Kauffman, 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 Miss Frances Baird, Detective by Reginald Wright Kauffman. Read by J. M. Smallheer Frances Baird is a detective with the Watkins Agency of New York City. She and a colleague are sent undercover to "The Maples" to guard a valuable set of diamonds during the festivities leading up to the marriage of Mr. Deneen's eldest son, James Jr. Within a few hours of their arrival, however, this seemingly simple task turns into something much more sinister, and it is ultimately left to Frances to unravel the truth of the matter. (Summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Miss Frances Baird, Detective
• Author credits: Reginald Wright Kauffman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 5:00:38

Catalogue topics

• detective story
• mystery
• fiction
• female sleuths

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 00 - Introduction — 2:56
2. 01 - Deneen's Diamonds — 9:11
3. 02 - At the 'Listening Pipes' — 8:31
4. 03 - Brotherly Hate — 10:08
5. 04 - Exit the Jewels — 11:41
6. 05 - Felony — 5:13
7. 06 - 'Dead for a Ducat' — 9:41
8. 07 - A Mysterious Disappearance — 11:08
9. 08 - In the Cellar — 9:05
10. 09 - Mr. Fredericks Returns — 15:17
11. 10 - The Chief's Decision — 5:59
12. 11 - In Which I Am Very Nearly Killed — 8:19
13. 12 - Kemp Learns the Truth — 14:50
14. 13 - We Hunt for Blood-Stains — 13:01
15. 14 - 'Who Killed My Son' — 6:26
16. 15 - 'Thou Art the Man' — 16:44
17. 16 - I Resign — 13:27
18. 17 - In the Jail — 9:30
19. 18 - The Inquest — 16:08
20. 19 - The Woman in the Case — 19:02
21. 20 - I Meet Mrs. Maria Bladesdell — 12:22
22. 21 - I Try the Third Degree — 9:07
23. 22 - Bromley Grows Mysterious — 19:02
24. 23 - 'My Friend, the Thief' — 13:36

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