Length8h 5m
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Excerpt: "There may be folk in the world to whom the finding of a dead man, lying grim and stark by the roadside, with the blood freshly run from it and making ugly patches of crimson on the grass and the gravel, would be an ordinary thing; but to me that had never seen blood let in violence, except in such matters as a bout of fisticuffs at school, it was the biggest thing that had ever happened, and I stood staring down at the white face as if I should never look at anything else as long as I lived. I remember all about that scene and that moment as freshly now as if the affair had happened last night. The dead man lying in the crushed grass--his arms thrown out helplessly on either side of him..."
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 17, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
20CHAPTER XIX: MY TURN
2CHAPTER I: THE ONE-EYED MAN
21CHAPTER XX: THE SAMARITAN SKIPPER
3CHAPTER II: THE MIDNIGHT MISSION
22CHAPTER XXI: MR. GAVIN SMEATON
4CHAPTER III: THE RED STAIN
23CHAPTER XXII: I READ MY OWN OBITUARY
5CHAPTER IV: THE MURDERED MAN
24CHAPTER XXIII: FAMILY HISTORY
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6CHAPTER V: THE BRASS-BOUND CHEST
25CHAPTER XXIV: THE SUIT OF CLOTHES
7CHAPTER VI: MR. JOHN PHILLIPS
26CHAPTER XXV: THE SECOND DISAPPEARANCE
8CHAPTER VII: THE INQUEST ON JOHN PHILLIPS
27CHAPTER XXVI: MRS. RALSTON OF CRAIG
9CHAPTER VIII: THE PARISH REGISTERS
28CHAPTER XXVII: THE BANK BALANCE
10CHAPTER IX: THE MARINE-STORE DEALER
29CHAPTER XXVIII: THE HATHERCLEUGH BUTLER
11CHAPTER X: THE OTHER WITNESS
30CHAPTER XXIX: ALL IN ORDER
12CHAPTER XI: SIGNATURES TO THE WILL
31CHAPTER XXX: THE CARSTAIRS MOTTO
13CHAPTER XII: THE SALMON GAFF
32CHAPTER XXXI: NO TRACE
14CHAPTER XIII: SIR GILBERT CARSTAIRS
33CHAPTER XXXII: THE LINK
15CHAPTER XIV: DEAD MAN'S MONEY
34CHAPTER XXXIII: THE OLD TOWER
16CHAPTER XV: FIVE HUNDRED A YEAR
35CHAPTER XXXIV: THE BARGAIN
17CHAPTER XVI: THE MAN IN THE CELL
36CHAPTER XXXV: THE SWAG
18CHAPTER XVII: THE IRISH HOUSEKEEPER
37CHAPTER XXXVI: GOLD
19CHAPTER XVIII: THE ICE AX
38CHAPTER XXXVII: THE DARK POOL
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