Seven Keys to Baldpate: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Seven Keys to Baldpate, credited to Earl Derr Biggers, 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 Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers. Read in English by Susan Umpleby; Lynne Thompson; Gabriela Cowan; TriciaG; ToddHW Pulp novelist William Magee has made a bet with the owner of Baldpate Inn that he can write a serious novel in 24 hours. Thinking he will be alone and uninterrupted, Magee arrives at the inn in the dead of winter. But he discovers that there are six other keys to Baldpate Inn, and the holders of those keys enliven his stay with blackmail, shootings and even a disappearing corpse. (Summary by Susan Umpleby)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Seven Keys to Baldpate
• Author credits: Earl Derr Biggers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 8:02:43

Catalogue topics

• humor
• novel
• Crime
• uninvited guests

Track guide

1. 01 - 'Weep No More, My Lady' — 25:49
2. 02 - Enter a Lovelorn Haberdasher — 31:11
3. 03 - Blondes and Suffragettes — 22:31
4. 04 - A Professional Hermit Appears — 21:31
5. 05 - The Mayor Casts a Shadow Before — 26:30
6. 06 - Ghosts of the Summer Crowd — 30:17
7. 07 - The Mayor Begins a Vigil — 20:47
8. 08 - Mr. Max Tells a Tale of Suspicion — 20:18
9. 09 - Melodrama in the Snow — 20:27
10. 10 - The Cold Gray Dawn — 26:28
11. 11 - A Falsehood Under the Palms — 22:44
12. 12 - Woe in Number Seven — 22:41
13. 13 - The Exquisite Mr. Hayden — 21:47
14. 14 - The Sign of the Open Window — 21:17
15. 15 - Table Talk — 22:12
16. 16 - A Man from the Dark — 18:04
17. 17 - The Professor Sums Up — 24:07
18. 18 - A Red Card — 19:21
19. 19 - Exeunt Omnes, as Shakespeare Has It — 16:50
20. 20 - The Admiral's Game — 14:05
21. 21 - The Mayor is Welcomed Home — 18:25
22. 22 - The Usual Thing — 15:21

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