The Agony Column: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Agony Column, 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 The Agony Column, by Earl Derr Biggers. Read in English by peac. English romantic adventure starring a young American in London and inspired by the personal ads (agony columns) in the London papers. In this treacherous tale of murder and intrigue young American Geoffrey West tracks a killer from the posh dining room of the Carlton Hotel to the opium dens of London's Limehouse district in search of the truth and the heart of his true love only to find the culprit all too close to home. Earl Derr Biggers is better known as the author of numerous Charlie Chan novels. The Agony Column was released as a movie under the name Second Floor Mystery in 1930. While this movie was in production, its two stars, Loretta Young and Grant Withers, eloped. (Summary by peac)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Agony Column
• Author credits: Earl Derr Biggers
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Listed recording duration: 2:30:39

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• mystery
• Second Floor Mystery

Track guide

1. Chapter 1 — 14:25
2. Chapter 2 — 15:46
3. Chapter 3 — 14:37
4. Chapter 4 — 15:06
5. Chapter 5 — 26:36
6. Chapter 6 — 21:05
7. Chapter 7 — 23:12
8. Chapter 8 — 8:54
9. Chapter 9 — 11:01

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