The Chief Legatee: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Chief Legatee, 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 Chief Legatee by Anna Katharine Green. Read in English by Tony Oliva "I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and was in all respects, so far as any one could see, a happy woman, satisfied with her choice and pleased with the éclat and elegancies of the occasion. Half-way down the aisle this all changed. I remember the instant perfectly. Her hand was on my arm and I felt it suddenly stiffen. I was not alarmed, but I gave her a quick look and saw that something had happened.... ...I should have passed the matter over as a mere attack of nerves, if I had not afterwards detected in her face, through all the hurry and excitement of the ensuing reception, a strained expression not at all natural to her. This was still more evident after the congratulations of a certain guest, who, I am sure, whispered to her before he passed on... ...She entered the office with me and was standing close at my side all the time I was writing our names in the register; but later, when I turned to ask her to enter the elevator with me, she was gone..." (Excerpts from Chapter 1)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Chief Legatee
• Author credits: Anna Katharine Green
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 7:01:00

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• detective novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - A Bride of Five Hours — 19:10
2. 02 - The Lady in Number Three — 7:37
3. 03 - He Knows the Word — 14:12
4. 04 - Mr. Ransom Waits — 9:17
5. 05 - In Corridor and in Room — 19:41
6. 06 - The Lawyer — 7:05
7. 07 - Rain — 11:31
8. 08 - Elimination — 13:18
9. 09 - Hunter's Inn — 14:09
10. 10 - Two Doors — 15:33
11. 11 - Half-past One in the Morning — 7:00
12. 12 - Georgian! — 4:35
13. 13 - Where the Mill Stream Runs Fiercest — 11:28
14. 14 - A Detective's Work — 38:42
15. 15 - Anitra — 18:22
16. 16 - Love! — 11:23
17. 17 - I Don't Hear — 12:34
18. 18 - God's Forest, Then Man's — 26:39
19. 19 - In Mrs. Deo's Room — 18:01
20. 20 - Between the Elderberry Bushes — 10:01
21. 21 - On the Cars — 20:07
22. 22 - A Suspicious Test — 12:19
23. 23 - A Startling Decision — 5:30
24. 24 - The Devil's Cauldron — 9:37

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