The Opal Serpent: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Opal Serpent, credited to Fergus Hume, 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 Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume. Read in English by Richard Kilmer An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known as the actual daughter of the pawnbroker. Follow detective Hurd as he unravels the convoluted mystery of the old man’s death and attempts to determine who is the rightful heir. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Opal Serpent
• Author credits: Fergus Hume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 9:44:56

Catalogue topics

• fiction
• Mystery
• Crime

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Don Quixote in London — 24:12
2. 02 - Deborah Junk, Duenna — 25:58
3. 03 - Dulcinea of Gwynne Street — 23:42
4. 04 - The Unforseen — 22:52
5. 05 - Trouble — 23:07
6. 06 - A Noise in the Street — 23:22
7. 07 - A Terrible Night — 20:42
8. 08 - The Verdict of the Jury — 22:01
9. 09 - Castles in the Air — 21:44
10. 10 - A Bolt from the Blue — 20:58
11. 11 - A Cuckoo in the Nest — 20:46
12. 12 - The New Life — 21:17
13. 13 - The Detective's Views — 24:53
14. 14 - Mr. Hay's Little Dinner — 20:55
15. 15 - A New Clue — 22:54
16. 16 - Sylvia's Theory — 20:08
17. 17 - Hurd's Information — 21:35
18. 18 - At Christchurch, Hants — 20:15
19. 19 - Captain Jessop — 16:36
20. 20 - Part of the Truth — 23:42
21. 21 - Miss Qian's Party — 23:21
22. 22 - Further Evidence — 22:30
23. 23 - What Pash Said — 21:52
24. 24 - Mrs. Krill at Bay — 24:31

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