The Four Stragglers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Four Stragglers, credited to Frank L. Packard, 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 Four Stragglers by Frank L. Packard. Read in English by Lee Smalley This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind German lines. One of them shoots at another in the darkness. Members of a criminal gang before the war, the men resume their unlawful activities when peacetime returns. The gang’s leader receives a letter that results in his leaving London for a small island off the Florida Keys. He is “as clever a scoundrel and as miserable, inhuman and unscrupulous a one as ever blasphemed the image in which God made him… He is without conscience, ruthless, a fiend who would do honour to hell itself." Frank L. Packard authored many popular novels, several of which were made into movies, including a series in which he originated the idea of a heroic crime fighter with a secret double identity. --Lee Smalley

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Four Stragglers
• Author credits: Frank L. Packard
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 8:17:24

Catalogue topics

• intrigue
• Mystery
• Crime
• thriller
• antihero
• plot twist
• treasure quest

Track guide

1. 00 - Prologue: The Four of Them — 13:25
2. 01 - Book I SHADOW VARNE Chapter I Three Years Later — 23:37
3. 02 - Book I Chapter 2 An Iron in The Fire — 21:42
4. 03 - Book I Chapter 3 Three of Them — 15:34
5. 04 - Book I Chapter 4 Gold Plate — 27:57
6. 05 - Book I Chapter 5 "Dear Guardy" — 19:29
7. 06 - Book I Chapter 6 The Writing on the Wall — 33:14
8. 07 - Book II The ISLE OF PREY Chapter 1 The Spell of the Moonbeams — 18:48
9. 08 - Book II Chapter 2 The Voice in the Night — 40:53
10. 09 - Book II Chapter 3 The Mad Millionaire — 28:21
11. 10 - Book II Chapter 4 The Unknown — 34:48
12. 11 - Book II Chapter 5 The Gutter-Snipe — 11:44
13. 12 - Book II Chapter 6 The Man in the Mask — 26:40
14. 13 - Book II Chapter 7 The Fight — 27:36
15. 14 - Book II Chapter 8 The Message — 23:15
16. 15 - Book III THE PENALTY Chapter 1 The White Shirt Sleeve — 24:02
17. 16 - Book III Chapter 2 The Bronze Key — 36:06
18. 17 - Book III Chapter 3 The Warp and the Woof — 38:57
19. 18 - Book III Chapter 4 The Time-Lock of the Sea — 31:16

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