Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks, credited to William Le Queux, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks by William Le Queux. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. This book is an engaging compilation of experiences that Mr. Le Queux has had in his life, and states in the preface that his goal was "to take my reader behind the scenes of some particular phases of life with which he may be unfamiliar." - Summary by swmom17

Recording facts

• Recording title: Things I Know About Kings, Celebrities, and Crooks
• Author credits: William Le Queux
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 10:00:58

Catalogue topics

• adventure
• kings
• autobiography
• Royalty
• celebrities

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 6:41
2. 02 - Ch 1 What I Know About Kings — 36:47
3. 03 - Ch 2 More About Kings — 25:05
4. 04 - Ch 3 Among Real Brigands — 27:25
5. 05 - Ch 4 In Savage Europe — 19:29
6. 06 - Ch 5 The Love Romance of King Peter of Serbia — 25:01
7. 07 - Ch 6 Some Secret History — 27:54
8. 08 - Ch 7 Evenings with Carmen Sylva, Queen of Roumania — 21:50
9. 09 - Ch 8 What the Sultan of Turkey Told Me — 37:31
10. 10 - Ch 9 Secrets of Well Known Women — 19:39
11. 11 - Ch 10 Other Stories of Notable Women — 33:59
12. 12 - Ch 11 Adventures: Humorous and Curious — 29:33
13. 13 - Ch 12 Adventures in Journalism — 51:11
14. 14 - Ch 13 Among Editors and Publishers — 35:27
15. 15 - Ch 14 Criminals I Have Met — 31:38
16. 16 - Ch 15 More Criminals I Have Met — 25:39
17. 17 - Ch 16 Spies and Spying, Part 1 — 23:33
18. 18 - Ch 16 Spies and Spying, Part 2 — 26:10
19. 19 - Ch 17 About Other Spies and the Truth Concerning "Jack the Ripper" — 31:22
20. 20 - Ch 18 Stories of Famous Folk — 23:33
21. 21 - Ch 19 Adventures in Clubland — 41:32

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