The Vanishing Man: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Vanishing Man, credited to R. Austin Freeman, 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 Vanishing Man by R. Austin Freeman. Read in English by Nicholas Clifford A young doctor, former student of the legal and medical expert Dr. John Thorndyke, finds himself almost accidentally drawn into a case in which a man has vanished. Perhaps he has died; perhaps not;but the issue is very important because the will that he has left behind is curiously -- annoyingly curiously -- worded. Fortunately, Dr. Thorndyke's rationality combined with his forensic skills, bring the case to a conclusion, while the young doctor meets the love of his life in the Egyptian rooms of the British Museum. ( Nicholas Cifford)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Vanishing Man
• Author credits: R. Austin Freeman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 20
• Listed recording duration: 9:50:28

Catalogue topics

• romance
• forensic medicine
• egyptology

Track guide

1. 01 - The Vanishing Man — 13:05
2. 02 - The Eavesdropper — 24:44
3. 03 - John Thorndyke — 22:38
4. 04 - Legal Complications and a Jackal — 23:47
5. 05 - The Watercress Bed — 24:13
6. 06 - Sidelights — 28:54
7. 07 - John Bellingham's Will — 34:46
8. 08 - A Museum Idyll — 23:20
9. 09 - The Sphinx of Lincoln's Inn Fields — 28:42
10. 10 - The New Alliance — 29:19
11. 11 - The Evidence Reviewed — 23:57
12. 12 - A Voyage of Discovery — 32:28
13. 13 - The Crowner's Quest — 21:50
14. 14 - Which Carries the Reader Into the Probate Court — 48:54
15. 15 - Circumstantial Evidence — 26:28
16. 16 - 'O! Artemidorus, Farewell!' — 25:04
17. 17 - The Accusing Finger — 30:55
18. 18 - John Bellingham — 46:17
19. 19 - A Strange Symposium — 51:10
20. 20 - The End of the Case — 29:56

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