The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, credited to Anna Katharine Green, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, by Anna Katharine Green. Read by Richard Kilmer. It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to Section II, the museum director discovers a teenage girl dead with an arrow through her heart. An older woman hovers over her whispering incoherent phrases in the girl's ear and offering incomprehensible answers to the director's questions. She is the only witness to the crime, or accident, as the case may be. How will the feeble, 83 year-old Mr. Gryce unravel this mystery when this witness is apparently insane? Anna Katharine Green was noted for her scientific approach to the murder mystery. In The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow she breaks more ground with her in-depth study of the psychological interplay between the murderer, the victim and the witnesses. Although more quietly paced, this mystery presents many elements of a current psychological thriller: blind ambition, narcissism, obsession and betrayal. Green adds a peculiar twist with the fact that two heartbroken relatives of the victim sacrifice virtually everything to protect the murderer.(Summary girlbooks/blog.com)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow
• Author credits: Anna Katharine Green
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 37
• Listed recording duration: 10:49:16

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 37

1. 01 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 1 - Let Someone Speak — 13:22
2. 02 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 2 - In Room B — 21:21
3. 03 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 3 - I have Something to Show You — 16:15
4. 04 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 4 - A Strategic Move - Part 1 — 21:06
5. 05 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 4 - A Strategic Move - Part 2 — 22:08
6. 06 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 5 - Three Where Two Should Be — 8:10
7. 07 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 6 - The Man in the Gallery — 28:32
8. 08 - Book 1 - A Problem of the First Order - Chapter 7 - You Think That of Me — 27:25
9. 09 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 8 - On the Search — 18:18
10. 10 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 9 - While the City Slept — 13:52
11. 11 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 10 - And He Stood Here — 7:11
12. 12 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 11 - Footsteps — 12:36
13. 13 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 12 - Spare nobody: I say, Spare Nobody! — 10:56
14. 14 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 13 - Write Me His Name — 20:29
15. 15 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 14 - A loop of Silk — 8:46
16. 16 - Book 2 - Mr. X - Chapter 15 - News from France — 16:33
17. 17 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 16 - Friends — 9:14
18. 18 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 17 - The Cuckoo-Clock — 17:55
19. 19 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 18 - Mrs. Davis' Strange Lodger — 27:23
20. 20 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 19 - Mr. Gryce and the Timid Child — 21:14
21. 21 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 20 - Mr. Gryce and the Unwary Woman — 8:53
22. 22 -Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 21 - Perplexed — 12:15
23. 23 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 22 - He Remembers — 13:30
24. 24 - Book 3 - Storm In The Mountains - Chapter 23 - Girls, Girls! Nothing but Girls! — 23:24

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