Length7h 20m
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Excerpt: "Captain Mike Brixan had certain mild and innocent superstitions. He believed, for example, that if he saw a green crow in a field he would certainly see another green crow before the day was out. And when, at the bookstand on Aix la Chapelle station, he saw and purchased a dime novel that was comprehensively intituled "Only an Extra, or the Pride of Hollywood," he was less concerned as to how this thrilling and dog-eared romance came to be on offer at half a million marks (this was in the days when marks were worth money) than as to the circumstances in which he would again hear or read the word "extras" in the sense of a supernumerary and unimportant screen actress. The novel did not interest him at all. He read one page of superlatives and turned for relief to the study of a Belgian time-table. He was bored, but not so bored that he could interest himself in the sensational rise of the fictitious Rosa Love from modest obscurity to a press agent and wealth. But "extra" was a new one on Michael, and he waited for the day to bring its inevitable companion. To say that he was uninterested in crime, that burglars were less thrilling than golf scores, and the record of murders hardly worth the reading, might convey a wrong impression to those who knew him as the cleverest agent in the Foreign Office Intelligence Department. His official life was spent in meeting queer continentals in obscure restaurants and, in divers rôles, to learn of the undercurrents that were drifting the barques of diplomacy to unsuspected ports. He had twice roamed through Europe in the guise of an open-mouthed tourist; had canoed many hundred miles through the gorges of the Danube to discover, in little riverside beer-houses, the inward meanings of secret mobilizations. These were tasks wholly to his liking."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length7 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateFeb 3, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I THE HEAD-HUNTER
22CHAPTER XXII THE HEAD
2CHAPTER II MR. SAMPSON LONGVALE CALLS
23CHAPTER XXIII CLUES AT THE TOWER
3CHAPTER III THE NIECE
24CHAPTER XXIV THE MARKS OF THE BEAST
4CHAPTER IV THE LEADING LADY
25CHAPTER XXV THE MAN IN THE CAR
5CHAPTER V MR. LAWLEY FOSS
26CHAPTER XXVI THE HAND
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6CHAPTER VI THE MASTER OF GRIFF
27CHAPTER XXVII THE CAVES
7CHAPTER VII THE SWORDS AND BHAG
28CHAPTER XXVIII THE TOWER
8CHAPTER VIII BHAG
29CHAPTER XXIX BHAG’S RETURN
9CHAPTER IX THE ANCESTOR
30CHAPTER XXX THE ADVERTISEMENT
10CHAPTER X THE OPEN WINDOW
31CHAPTER XXXI JOHN PERCIVAL LIGGITT
11CHAPTER XI THE MARK ON THE WINDOW
32CHAPTER XXXII GREGORY’S WAY
12CHAPTER XII A CRY FROM A TOWER
33CHAPTER XXXIII THE TRAP THAT FAILED
13CHAPTER XIII THE TRAP THAT FAILED
34CHAPTER XXXIV THE SEARCH
14CHAPTER XIV MENDOZA MAKES A FIGHT
35CHAPTER XXXV WHAT HAPPENED TO ADELE
15CHAPTER XV TWO FROM THE YARD
36CHAPTER XXXVI THE ESCAPE
16CHAPTER XVI THE BROWN MAN FROM NOWHERE
37CHAPTER XXXVII AT THE TOWER AGAIN
17CHAPTER XVII MR. FOSS MAKES A SUGGESTION
38CHAPTER XXXVIII THE CAVERN OF BONES
18CHAPTER XVIII THE FACE IN THE PICTURE
39CHAPTER XXXIX MICHAEL KNOWS FOR SURE
19CHAPTER XIX THE MIDNIGHT VISIT
40CHAPTER XL “THE WIDOW”
20CHAPTER XX A NARROW ESCAPE
41CHAPTER XLI THE DEATH
21CHAPTER XXI THE ERASURE
42CHAPTER XLII CAMERA!
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