The Secret Mark: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Secret Mark, credited to Roy J. Snell, 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 Secret Mark by Roy J. Snell. Read in English by Lee Ann Howlett Student Lucile Tucker works part-time at the library of the large university she attends in Chicago to help pay her tuition. One night, while closing the library for the evening, she glimpses a small child – a girl – in the stacks. Carefully following her, Lucile can’t believe her eyes when the child, unaware that she has been seen, manages to steal a valuable book from the collection and practically disappear from the library right before Lucile’s eyes. This is only the beginning of her search for why this child took this book (and others). Lucile enlists the assistance of her good friend and roommate Florence, a fellow student, to attempt to solve this mystery on her own. She can’t bear the thought of this sweet-faced child being turned over to the police despite her apparent thefts. Enter the world of these college women as they brave the city streets at night in unsavory sections of Chicago on their quest. Who is the elderly man in the crumbling cottage? What is the significance of the ‘mark’ inside the front covers of the books? Has someone been shadowing the women on their search… (Summary by Lee Ann Howlett) Listeners outside the USA: Roy J. Snell died in 1959. The author's work is still protected by copyright in places, like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, and Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955).

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Secret Mark
• Author credits: Roy J. Snell
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 25
• Listed recording duration: 4:10:49

Opening tracks: first 24 of 25

1. 01 - A Mysterious Visitor — 13:09
2. 02 - Elusive Shakespeare — 11:32
3. 03 - The Gargoyle — 10:31
4. 04 - What the Gargoyle Might Tell — 11:04
5. 05 - The Papier-Mache Lunch Box — 12:08
6. 06 - One Can Never Tell — 11:14
7. 07 - The Vanishing Portland Chart — 7:53
8. 08 - What Was In the Papier-Mache Lunch Box — 13:34
9. 09 - Shadowed — 8:22
10. 10 - Mysteries of the Sea — 9:10
11. 11 - Lucile Shares Her Secret — 10:01
12. 12 - The Trial By Fire — 9:39
13. 13 - In the Mystery Room at Night — 7:58
14. 14 - A Strange Request — 5:24
15. 15 - A Strange Journey — 13:05
16. 16 - Night Visitors — 11:27
17. 17 - A Battle in the Night — 10:11
18. 18 - Frank Morrow Joins in the Hunt — 14:55
19. 19 - Lucile Solves No Mystery — 9:16
20. 20 - That Was The Man — 12:38
21. 21 - A Theft in the Night — 7:41
22. 22 - Many Mysteries — 10:43
23. 23 - Inside the Lines — 7:19
24. 24 - Secrets Revealed — 7:45

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