The Secret of the Night: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Secret of the Night, credited to Gaston Leroux, 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 of the Night by Gaston Leroux. Read by Don W. Jenkins. Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that Leroux styled his hero after himself. Rouletabille was in the tradition of other great detectives who solved their cases by pure deductive reasoning. Much as Sherlock Holmes, who eliminated the impossible and concluded that whatever remained, however improbable must be the truth, Rouletabille included the known facts about the case and eliminated everything that was not a known fact, no matter how much it appeared to relate to the case. In The Secret of the Night, the names of the characters are often challengingly Russian and the plot involves, appropriately, both the Czar and the Nihilists. Introduction by Don W. Jenkins)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Secret of the Night
• Author credits: Gaston Leroux
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 19
• Listed recording duration: 9:07:34

Catalogue topics

• public domain
• Gaston Leroux
• Joseph Rouletabille
• French literature
• mystery
• Czar
• nihilists
• detective

Track guide

1. 01 - Gayety and Dynamite — 24:37
2. 02 - Natacha — 36:59
3. 03 - The Watch — 23:11
4. 04 - The Youth of Moscow is Dead — 19:58
5. 05 - By Roulabille's Order The General Promenades — 47:45
6. 06 - The Mysterious Hand — 28:54
7. 07 - Arsenate of Soda — 36:48
8. 08 - The Little Chapel of the Guards — 24:48
9. 09 - Annouchka — 58:47
10. 10 - A Drama in the Night — 42:54
11. 11 - The Poison Continues — 23:18
12. 12 - Pere Alexis — 20:10
13. 13 - The Living Bombs — 38:34
14. 14 - The Marshes — 30:00
15. 15 - I have been waiting for you — 18:13
16. 16 - Before the Revolutionary Tribunal — 12:42
17. 17 - The Last Cravat — 13:27
18. 18 - A Singular Experience — 6:52
19. 19 - The Tsar — 39:44

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