The Spider: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Spider, 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 Spider by Fergus Hume. Read in English by Don W. Jenkins Arthur Vernon, member of the Athenian club and member of “society,” has a secret. His father has died and left him destitute, so he has begun a private investigation agency under the name “Nemo.” It would be disastrous if this were known among his associates at the club, and especially if his intended in-laws found out. But he is quite sure no one else knows, that is until his old college classmate, Constantine Maunders, visits him with a proposition he can’t refuse. Maunders knows all, and he wants to be made a partner in the agency, providing “Nemo” with black-mail worthy information on other people in society in return for a share of the financial rewards for their silence. Vernon is appalled, particularly as “Nemo” is engaged in solving a high profile blackmail case. These are the beginning of Vernons conundrums as the clues unfold. - Summary by Don W. Jenkins

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Spider
• Author credits: Fergus Hume
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 10:07:01

Catalogue topics

• Detective
• Mystery
• blackmail

Track guide

1. 01 - A Possible Partnership — 26:23
2. 02 - A Confidential Communication — 29:48
3. 03 - How the Trap Was Set — 30:39
4. 04 - Who Was Caught in the Trap — 34:57
5. 05 - After the Tragedy — 21:55
6. 06 - Two Conversations — 31:52
7. 07 - Lady Corsoon's Appeal — 26:24
8. 08 - The Grief of Ida — 29:29
9. 09 - Witchcraft — 27:45
10. 10 - Mystery — 22:25
11. 11 - The Needle in the Haystack — 25:32
12. 12 - A Tempting Offer — 27:01
13. 13 - The Bazaar — 24:47
14. 14 - Run to Earth — 30:43
15. 15 - Face to Face — 25:22
16. 16 - The Search — 24:24
17. 17 - In the Train — 22:48
18. 18 - At Bowderstyke — 31:22
19. 19 - A Bold Offer — 28:16
20. 20 - Gerby Hall — 32:21
21. 21 - Justice — 29:03
22. 22 - The End of it All — 23:45

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