The Pit Prop Syndicate: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Pit Prop Syndicate, credited to Freeman Wills Crofts, 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 Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts. Read in English by KHand Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road 26 miles outside Bordeaux, an action that will change his life forever. The events that follow lead him into mystery, smuggling, murder and love. Two amateur detectives try to unravel the mystery of changing number plates, and everything else that surrounds the pit prop syndicate, before the case is handed over to Inspector Willis of Scotland Yard. (KHand)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Pit Prop Syndicate
• Author credits: Freeman Wills Crofts
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 8:47:12

Catalogue topics

• romance
• Mystery
• murder

Track guide

1. 01 - The Sawmill on the Lesque — 22:58
2. 02 - An Interesting Suggestion — 21:46
3. 03 - The Start of the Cruise — 25:22
4. 04 - A Commercial Proposition — 26:31
5. 05 - The Visit of the ''Girondin'' — 29:51
6. 06 - A Change of Venue — 22:28
7. 07 - The Ferriby Depot — 20:11
8. 08 - The Unloading of the ''Girondin'' — 22:32
9. 09 - The Second Cargo — 38:12
10. 10 - Merriman Becomes Desperate — 26:06
11. 11 - An Unexpected Ally — 37:39
12. 12 - Murder! — 20:26
13. 13 - A Promising Clue — 19:17
14. 14 - A Mystifying Discovery — 28:42
15. 15 - Inspector Willis Listens In — 22:24
16. 16 - The Secret of the Syndicate — 24:13
17. 17 - ''Archer Plants Stuff'' — 32:19
18. 18 - The Bordeaux Lorries — 24:34
19. 19 - Willis Spreads His Net — 34:23
20. 20 - The Double Cross — 27:17

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