The Amethyst Box: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Amethyst Box, credited to Anna Katharine Green, 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 Amethyst Box, by Anna Katharine Green. Read by Carolin. On the evening before his marriage, Sinclair loses a precious curiosity from his collection: an amethyst box, containing a tiny flask of deadly poison. He suspects that this poison is in the possession of either his betrothed or her cousin, the girl his best friend Worthington loves. Turning to Worthington for help, they try to recover the box before the poison can be administered... (Summary by Carolin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Amethyst Box
• Author credits: Anna Katharine Green
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 9
• Combined MP3 track duration: 2:50:45

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• yldz

Track guide

1. 1 - The Flask Which Held But A Drop — 19:53
2. 2 - Beaton's Dream — 20:31
3. 3 - A Scream in the Night — 19:03
4. 4 - What Sinclair Had To Show Me — 10:58
5. 5 - Three O'Clock in the Morning — 13:51
6. 6 - Dorothy Speaks — 20:02
7. 7 - Constraint — 10:56
8. 8 - Gilbertine Speaks — 27:58
9. 9 - In the Little Boudoir — 27:31

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