The Mark of Cain: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mark of Cain, credited to Carolyn Wells, 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 Mark of Cain by Carolyn Wells. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Murder mystery #8 by the prolific American author Carolyn Wells, featuring her famous detective, Fleming Stone (though that detective isn’t brought into the case until it’s almost too late). The novel features a heroine resisting pressure to marry a man she doesn’t love, detectives and police who keep chasing clues in the wrong directions, a teenage wanna-be detective who’s also an inveterate liar, and a host of other interesting characters, most of whom merely serve to redirect the course of justice until Fleming Stone shows up to set them all straight. (Summary by Winnifred Assmann) Caution: The book contains some stereotypical racism towards Swedes and Japanese, and Chapters 1, 2, and 21 contain several instances of an offensive and derogatory term to describe Italians.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mark of Cain
• Author credits: Carolyn Wells
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 7:38:17

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• murder
• detective story

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Through the Green Cord — 19:14
2. 02 - Who Could Have Done It? — 17:52
3. 03 - Pinckney, the Reporter — 18:44
4. 04 - The Inquest Begins — 23:50
5. 05 - The Swede — 17:34
6. 06 - Out of the West — 20:06
7. 07 - Stephanotis — 17:39
8. 08 - The Milk Bottle — 19:17
9. 09 - A Clause in the Will — 18:02
10. 10 - Stryker’s Handkerchief — 16:33
11. 11 - Duane, the Detective — 20:48
12. 12 - A New Theory — 16:22
13. 13 - Fibsy Fibs — 18:04
14. 14 - Two Suitors — 16:05
15. 15 - The Trap that Was Set — 18:12
16. 16 - A Promise — 16:55
17. 17 - Madame Isis — 18:49
18. 18 - All for Love — 21:18
19. 19 - Two at Luncheon — 16:31
20. 20 - Fleming Stone — 19:11
21. 21 - Stone’s Questions — 15:44
22. 22 - Judge Hoyt’s Plan — 12:58
23. 23 - In Kito’s Care — 17:24
24. 24 - Escape — 18:24

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