The Adventures of Jimmie Dale: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Jimmie Dale, credited to Frank L. Packard, 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 The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard. Read by Maire Rhode, Lars Rolander, Roger Melin, Julia Albath, Wyatt, webround, & Jacob Cherry. Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 – February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, with a Harvard education and membership to New York City’s ultra-exclusive private club St. James. But at night he puts on a costume and becomes The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, grey paper "seal" behind to mark his conquest, but never taking anything. He was just doing it for "the sheer deviltry of it" at first, but when a woman catches him, she blackmails him to war on certain crime organizations. Jimmie Dale/The Grey Seal is often credited with greatly influencing and popularizing later pulp and comic book heroes. The foppish playboy-by-day-crimefighter-by-night routine had a precursor in The Scarlet Pimpernel, but it was Jimmie Dale that brought the idea into a contemporary setting and added the idea of a costume and mask for his secret identity, serving as a possible influence for characters like Zorro and The Shadow. He also established the concept of a hero's secret hideout or lair, The Sanctuary, a precersor of the Batcave or the Fortress of Solitude. (Summary by Wikipedia and Maire Rhode) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Adventures of Jimmie Dale
• Author credits: Frank L. Packard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 47
• Listed recording duration: 19:00:45

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• crimefighter
• The Grey Seal

Opening tracks: first 24 of 47

1. 01 - The Gray Seal — 23:22
2. 02 - The Gray Seal, conclusion — 26:39
3. 03 - By Proxy — 18:34
4. 04 - By Proxy, continued — 19:06
5. 05 - By Proxy, conclusion — 30:58
6. 06 - The Mother Lode — 20:46
7. 07 - The Mother Lode, continued — 21:49
8. 08 - The Mother Lode, conclusion — 23:38
9. 09 - The Counterfeit Five — 20:59
10. 10 - The Counterfeit Five continued — 27:21
11. 11 - The Counterfeit Five, conclusion — 22:35
12. 12 - The Affair of the Pushcart Man — 27:40
13. 13 - The Affair of the Pushcart Man, conclusion — 35:30
14. 14 - Devil's Work — 26:38
15. 15 - Devil's Work, continued — 27:57
16. 16 - Devil's Work, conclusion — 23:21
17. 17 - The Thief — 21:36
18. 18 - The Thief, continued — 27:29
19. 19 - The Thief, conclusion — 24:54
20. 20 - The Man Higher Up — 20:07
21. 21 - The Man Higher Up, continued — 28:14
22. 22 - The Man Higher Up, conclusion — 19:55
23. 23 - Two Crooks and a Knave — 26:38
24. 24 - Two Crooks and a Knave, continued — 30:18

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