The Riddle Ring: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Riddle Ring, credited to Justin McCarthy, 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 Riddle Ring, by Justin McCarthy (1830–1912). Read by Ruth Golding. This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how is a dour English barber in a Parisian salon mixed up in all this? The novel, published in 1896, was written by Justin McCarthy, an Irish nationalist, Liberal historian, novelist and politician. (Introduction by Ruth Golding)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Riddle Ring
• Author credits: Justin McCarthy
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 11:25:27

Catalogue topics

• romance
• mystery
• victorian fiction
• novel

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - Chapter 1: Jim Conrad's Find — 22:35
2. 02 - Chapter 2: The Slave of the Ring — 19:23
3. 03 - Jim's New Acquaintances — 28:02
4. 04 - Albert Edward Waley — 15:00
5. 05 - Mr. Waley's Chief — 15:20
6. 06 - Clelia Vine — 31:37
7. 07 - Mr. Marmaduke Coffin — 25:04
8. 08 - Someone Has Blundered — 26:12
9. 09 - Mr. Waley as Recruiting-Sergeant — 16:48
10. 10 - 'I Could Have Loved You, but...' — 35:33
11. 11 - The Sweet Sorrow of Parting — 22:24
12. 12 - Back to London — 15:56
13. 13 - Sir Francis Rose — 26:29
14. 14 - 'That Lady is Not Now Living' — 33:53
15. 15 - 'Will You Stand in with Us?' — 25:46
16. 16 - A Letter and a Meeting — 31:24
17. 17 - An Epoch-making Day — 22:46
18. 18 - Jim is an Unwelcome Messenger — 27:42
19. 19 - 'Hast Thou Found Me Out, O Mine Enemy?' — 37:44
20. 20 - 'Thy Kindness Freezes' — 24:40
21. 21 - 'Why Summon Him - and Trust Not Me?' — 19:57
22. 22 - What Mr. Waley Did with Himself — 32:26
23. 23 - What the Chief Did with Himself — 25:41
24. 24 - 'What is to be Done First?' — 30:12

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