The House by the Lock: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The House by the Lock, credited to Alice Muriel Williamson, 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 House by the Lock, by Mrs. C.N. Williamson. Read by Roger Melin. What secrets lay within the walls of the house by the lock? What secrets, if any, are held by the man who owns that mysterious house? A body is found in a backwater creek not far from the house by the lock, but what leads Noel Stanton on a quest to determine who the killer might be is more than merely the disappearance of his American friend Harvey Farnham. He has reason to believe that the wealthy and influential owner of the house, Carson Wildred, might somehow be implicated in the coincidental disappearance and murder. But as Stanton's search progresses, he learns that his friend is safe and sound back in the U.S. and he therefore must learn more about the house itself with its peculiar construction, it's hidden passageways, and the peculiar smoke occasionally seen rising from its inaccessible areas. But everything is accounted for by the police, the servants, and Mr. Wildred during his investigation, leaving a most strange mystery left for Stanton to unravel. (Introduction by Roger Melin)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The House by the Lock
• Author credits: Alice Muriel Williamson
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 30
• Listed recording duration: 6:13:27

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• fiction
• horror/ghost stories
• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 30

1. 01 - The Lady in the Stage Box — 14:18
2. 02 - The Man With the Pale Eyes — 11:40
3. 03 - A Dead Man's Hand — 9:22
4. 04 - The House by the Lock — 10:00
5. 05 - Was It a Mystery? — 19:20
6. 06 - An Adventure in the Park — 17:04
7. 07 - Friends — 7:40
8. 08 - An Announcement — 10:22
9. 09 - Too Late — 10:14
10. 10 - If He Had Committed a Crime — 8:52
11. 11 - Wildred Scores — 20:23
12. 12 - Karine's Engagement Ring — 5:55
13. 13 - Kismet and Miss Cunningham — 14:00
14. 14 - An Extra Special — 3:34
15. 15 - A Mystery of the Thames — 8:30
16. 16 - Information Laid by Carson Wildred — 10:26
17. 17 - A Disappointment — 16:40
18. 18 - A Desperate Remedy — 11:11
19. 19 - Not at Home — 13:50
20. 20 - The Quest — 22:56
21. 21 - A Picture From the Past — 14:40
22. 22 - Face To Face — 4:48
23. 23 - A Counterfeit Presentment — 9:55
24. 24 - Fire! — 8:38

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