The Wishing Well: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
The Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 25 original MP3 tracks, 4:41:38 running time and a link to listen.
The Wishing Well, credited to Mildred A. Wirt Benson, 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 Wishing Well by Mildred A. Wirt Benson. Read in English by Cheryl Adam PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated when she was pushed to "tone down" Nancy Drew and make her less independent and daring. With Penny Parker, Wirt had a freer hand and received full credit. Wirt once said, " 'I always thought Penny Parker was a better Nancy Drew than Nancy is." In THE WISHING WELL, the once-grand, now abandoned Marborough Estate and its legendary stone wishing well have become the center of odd happenings. The reclusive owner unexpectedly returns, only to lock herself secretively away in the mansion. Soon after, an ancient stone is unearthed on the estate, upon which is carved a 400-year-old message. Or is it a hoax? Who are the two strangers who repeatedly visit the wishing well in the dead of night? Penny boldly investigates, certain that danger threatens her new friend Rhoda, a gifted, but poverty-stricken artist. - Summary by Cheryl Adam
Recording facts
- Recording title: The Wishing Well
- Author credits: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 25
- Listed recording duration: 4:41:38
Catalogue topics
- Mystery
- penny parker
- mildred a. wirt
- teen sleuth
- girl reporter
- female detective
- cozy mystery
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
Opening tracks: first 24 of 25
- 01 - An Old House — 11:57
- 02 - By the Covered Well — 15:39
- 03 - A Chicken Dinner — 7:38
- 04 - A Record on Rock — 16:10
- 05 - Strangers from Texas — 8:48
- 06 - A Wish Fulfilled — 10:18
- 07 - Penny's Discovery — 10:03
- 08 - A Moving Light — 10:11
- 09 - Mysterious Prowlers — 11:38
- 10 - Beneath the Flagstones — 8:54
- 11 - Jay Franklin's Trickery — 11:02
- 12 - No Admittance — 10:20
- 13 - A Silken Ladder — 12:00
- 14 - Night Adventure — 11:12
- 15 - Old Bottles — 9:54
- 16 - Inside the Mansion — 12:58
- 17 - The Marborough Pearls — 11:01
- 18 - Signboard Indians — 12:24
- 19 - Publicity Plus — 11:58
- 20 - Rhoda's Problem — 13:29
- 21 - Mrs. Marborough's Loss — 10:34
- 22 - The Missing Necklace — 13:58
- 23 - Grand Ball — 13:35
- 24 - River Rising — 9:17
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