The Master of Mysteries: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Master of Mysteries, credited to Frank Gelett Burgess, 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 Master of Mysteries by Frank Gelett Burgess. Read in English by volunteer readers. Subtitled, "Being an account of the problems solved by Astro, seer of secrets, and his love affair with Valeska Wynne, his assistant." Classic detective stories, with an atypical solver of them. Note, the book itself is published with no author name, which explains the introduction. Don't understand what I mean? Listen and find out! - Summary by TriciaG

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Master of Mysteries
• Author credits: Frank Gelett Burgess
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 13:36:15

Catalogue topics

• Mystery
• short stories
• mysteries

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - Introduction — 5:10
2. 02 - Missing John Hudson — 34:05
3. 03 - The Stolen Shakespeare — 36:13
4. 04 - The Macdougal Street Affair — 34:00
5. 05 - The Fanshawe Ghost — 28:26
6. 06 - The Denton Boudoir Mystery — 35:18
7. 07 - The Lorsson Elopement — 46:38
8. 08 - The Calendon Kidnapping Case — 36:33
9. 09 - Miss Dalrymple's Locket — 26:39
10. 10 - Number Thirteen — 36:43
11. 11 - The Trouble with Tulliver — 30:42
12. 12 - Why Mrs. Burbank Ran Away — 37:35
13. 13 - Mrs. Selwyn's Emerald — 35:51
14. 14 - The Assassins' Club — 39:10
15. 15 - The Luck of the Merringtons — 26:03
16. 16 - The Count's Comedy — 33:47
17. 17 - Priscilla's Presents — 25:36
18. 18 - The Heir to Soothoid — 30:00
19. 19 - The Two Miss Mannings — 37:20
20. 20 - Van Asten's Visitor — 31:47
21. 21 - The Middlebury Murder — 39:39
22. 22 - Vengeance of the Pi Rho Nu — 36:36
23. 23 - The Lady in Taupe — 25:18
24. 24 - Mrs. Stellery's Letters — 37:25

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