The Roman Hat Mystery: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 23 original MP3 tracks, 10:34:55 running time and a link to listen.
The Roman Hat Mystery, credited to Ellery Queen, 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 Roman Hat Mystery by Ellery Queen. Read in English by Mark Nelson. A disreputable lawyer is discovered dead by poisoning during the performance of a play in New York City. Not only that, despite being sold out, the body is surrounded by empty seats. Plus his top hat is missing. Inspector Richard Queen of the Homicide Squad is called-in to solve the case, along with his mystery writer son, Ellery. First in the Ellery Queen mystery novel series. - Summary by The Narrator
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Roman Hat Mystery
- Author credits: Ellery Queen
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 23
- Listed recording duration: 10:34:55
Catalogue topics
- Detective
- ellery queen
- crime mystery
Track guide
- 00 - Foreword — 15:24
- 01 - Chapter 1 - In Which Are Introduced a Theater-Audience and a Corpse — 17:03
- 02 - Chapter 2 - In Which One Queen Works and Another Queen Watches — 32:37
- 03 - Chapter 3 - In Which a "Parson" Comes to Grief — 34:23
- 04 - Chapter 4 - In Which Many Are Called and Two Are Chosen — 16:30
- 05 - Chapter 5 - In Which Inspector Quinn Conducts Some Legal Conversations — 45:40
- 06 - Chapter 6 - In Which the District Attorney Turns Biographer — 21:34
- 07 - Chapter 7 - The Queens Take Stock — 24:41
- 08 - Chapter 8 - In Which the Queens Meet Mr. Field's Very Best Friend — 36:44
- 09 - Chapter 9 - In Which the Mysterious Mr. Michaels Appears — 15:14
- 10 - Chapter 10 - In Which Mr. Field's Tophats Begin to Assume Proportions — 25:36
- 11 - Chapter 11 - In Which the Past Casts a Shadow — 27:07
- 12 - Chapter 12 - In Which the Queens Invade Society — 31:44
- 13 - Chapter 13 - Queen to Queen — 41:48
- 14 - Chapter 14 - In Which the Hat Grows — 32:48
- 15 - Chapter 15 - In Which an Accusation Is Made — 23:42
- 16 - Chapter 16 - In Which the Queens Go to the Theater — 26:44
- 17 - Chapter 17 - In Which More Hats Grow — 42:05
- 18 - Chapter 18 - Stalemate — 18:11
- 19 - Chapter 19 - In Which Inspector Queen Conducts More Legal Conversations — 24:02
- 20 - Chapter 20 - In Which Mr. Michaels Writes a Letter — 7:55
- 21 - Chapter 21 - In Which Inspector Queen Makes a Capture -- — 9:29
- 22 - Chapter 22 - --And Explains — 1:03:54
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