The Datchet Diamonds: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Datchet Diamonds, credited to Richard Marsh, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Datchet Diamonds by Richard Marsh. Read in English by Jacquerie Oh dear! The Duchess of Datchet's diamonds, worth a quarter of a million pounds, have been stolen. Just as Mr. Paxton, a ne'er do well gambler planning to leave the country to escape his losses, reads this news item on a train, he overhears, in the next compartment, the actual thief boasting of his accomplishment. Then, when he arrives at his hotel and opens his Gladstone bag, he finds the bag is not his -- and it contains the spoils of the robbery! Will our hero take them directly to the magistrate and tell all he knows? Or will things take another turn, leading to brigands, danger, and possibly romance? - Summary by Jacquerie

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Datchet Diamonds
• Author credits: Richard Marsh
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 5:32:51

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• diamonds
• english fiction

Track guide

1. 01 - Chapter I, Two Men and a Maid — 18:46
2. 02 - Chapter II, Overheard in the Train — 21:46
3. 03 - Chapter III, The Diamonds — 15:58
4. 04 - Chapter IV, Miss Wentworth's Rudeness — 24:22
5. 05 - Chapter V, In the Bodega — 28:55
6. 06 - Chapter VI, The Adventures of a Night — 20:44
7. 07 - Chapter VII, The Datchet Diamonds are Placed in Safe Custody — 11:02
8. 08 - Chapter VIII, In the Moment of His Success — 13:28
9. 09 - Chapter IX, A Proposal of Marriage — 15:42
10. 10 - Chapter X, Cyril's Friend — 12:02
11. 11 - Chapter XI, John Ireland's Warrant — 14:03
12. 12 - Chapter XII, A Woman Roused — 17:34
13. 13 - Chapter XIII, The Detective and the Lady — 29:00
14. 14 - Chapter XIV, Among Thieves — 23:59
15. 15 - Chapter XV, Put to the Question — 17:11
16. 16 - Chapter XVI, A Modern Instance of an Ancient Practice — 17:05
17. 17 - Chapter XVII, The Most Dangerous Foe of All — 13:08
18. 18 - Chapter XVIII, The Last of the Datchet Diamonds, Chapter XIX, A Woman's Logic — 18:06

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