The Secret Passage: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Secret Passage, credited to Fergus Hume, 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 Passage by Fergus Hume. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o'-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere..." (summary by Dawn Larsen and J.M. Smallheer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Secret Passage
• Author credits: Fergus Hume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 9:10:44

Catalogue topics

• mystery
• murder

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Cottage — 22:10
2. 02 - The Crime — 18:36
3. 03 - A Mysterious Death — 21:16
4. 04 - Details — 20:06
5. 05 - Lord Caranby's Romance — 23:10
6. 06 - A Perplexing Case — 21:49
7. 07 - The Detective — 23:17
8. 08 - The Course of True Love — 16:54
9. 09 - Another Mystery — 16:27
10. 10 - The Parlor-Maid's Story — 20:43
11. 11 - On The Track — 24:06
12. 12 - Jennings Asks Questions — 22:43
13. 13 - Juliet at Bay — 24:18
14. 14 - Mrs. Octagon Explains — 19:22
15. 15 - A Dangerous Admission — 25:24
16. 16 - Juliet's Story — 19:07
17. 17 - Juliet's Story Continued — 20:21
18. 18 - The Unexpected Happens — 17:37
19. 19 - Susan's Discovery — 16:28
20. 20 - Basil — 25:38
21. 21 - An Experiment — 24:35
22. 22 - The Secret Entrance — 20:06
23. 23 - A Scamp's History — 25:53
24. 24 - Revenge — 18:49

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