The Dark House: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Dark House, credited to George Manville Fenn, 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 Dark House by George Manville Fenn. Read by Lucy Burgoyne. An extremely wealthy but reclusive man has died, leaving an eccentric will which hints at great riches hidden somewhere in the house. Most of the people at the reading of the will did not know the deceased in person, but had received kindnesses from him, for instance by the payment of school and university fees. The principal beneficiary, a great-nephew, also did not know him. The only two people who really knew him were the old lawyer who dealt with his affairs, and an old Indian servant. Yet when the will had been read, and they all went to where the treasure--gold, jewels and bank-notes--were supposed to be hidden, nothing could be found. (Summary by Gutenberg)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Dark House
• Author credits: George Manville Fenn
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 4:33:42

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• fenn
• mystery
• crime

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - Number 9A, Albemarle Square — 13:31
2. 02 - The Dead Mans Relatives — 11:06
3. 03 - One Guardian Of The Treasure — 12:17
4. 04 - The Lawyers Tin Box — 9:17
5. 05 - The Reading Of The Will — 11:56
6. 06 - A Fit Of Generosity — 7:24
7. 07 - Lying In State — 17:59
8. 08 - The Horrors Of A Morn — 8:12
9. 09 - Another Discovery — 10:09
10. 10 - Why, Doctor, Doctor He's Dead! — 7:28
11. 11 - The Treasure — 11:00
12. 12 - The End Of The Instructions — 8:34
13. 13 - The Young Doctor — 6:45
14. 14 - A Clever Diplomatist — 9:08
15. 15 - In The Dark — 7:21
16. 16 - You Here — 7:02
17. 17 - The Tenth Night — 7:29
18. 18 - Nocturnal Proceedings — 6:20
19. 19 - Birds Of Prey — 6:35
20. 20 - Asleep Or Awake? — 6:17
21. 21 - What The Sound Was — 7:27
22. 22 - A Blank Adventure — 11:58
23. 23 - Waiting For Breakfast — 5:03
24. 24 - Doctor And Nurse — 14:52

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