The French Powder Mystery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 40 original MP3 tracks, 10:16:38 running time and a link to listen.
The French Powder Mystery, credited to Ellery Queen, 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 French Powder Mystery by Ellery Queen. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This is the second Ellery Queen novel, wherein the writer turned sleuth works with... or sometimes in opposition to... his father, an inspector in the New York Police Department. The scene is French's Department Store, renowned for its exclusive merchandise until a body turns up on display in its window. - Summary by LynneT
Recording facts
- Recording title: The French Powder Mystery
- Author credits: Ellery Queen
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 40
- Listed recording duration: 10:16:38
Catalogue topics
- Crime
- New York
- sleuth
- department store
- murder
Opening tracks: first 24 of 40
- 00 - Foreword — 13:53
- 01 - The First Episode - "The Queens Were in the Parlor" — 11:34
- 02 - "The Kings Were in the Counting-House" — 13:17
- 03 - "Humpty-Dumpty Had a Great Fall" — 6:30
- 04 - "All the King's Horses" — 6:45
- 05 - "And All the King's Men" — 13:59
- 06 - Testimony — 20:44
- 07 - The Corpse — 13:57
- 08 - The Watcher — 3:23
- 09 - The Watchers — 27:05
- 10 - Marion — 16:48
- 11 - Loose Ends — 11:08
- 12 - Out the Window... — 28:33
- 13 - Second Episode - At the Apartment: the Bedroom — 24:40
- 14 - At the Apartment: the Lavatory — 7:18
- 15 - At the Apartment: the Cardroom — 12:06
- 16 - At the Apartment: Again the Bedroom — 25:49
- 17 - At the Apartment: the Library — 20:04
- 18 - Scrambled Signs — 25:07
- 19 - Opinions and Reports — 29:37
- 20 - The Third Episode - Tobacco — 11:51
- 21 - Keys Again — 8:13
- 22 - Books Again — 7:55
- 23 - Confirmation — 8:07
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