Length8h 20m
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Excerpt: "It was in the second year of my practice as a private detective that young José Casteno came to my office in Stanton Street, WC, and entrusted me with that strange and terrible mission in regard to which I have really hesitated, in all sincerity, for some days before I could actually nerve myself to take the public into my confidence. Up to that time, I remember, my big brass plate, with the legend "Mr Hugh Glynn, Secret Investigator," had only succeeded in drawing a very average and ordinary amount of business. True, I had had several profitable cases in which wives wanted to know what happened to their husbands when they didn't come home at the usual hours, and employers were anxious to discover certain leakages through which had disappeared a percentage of their cash; but for the most part my work had been shockingly humdrum, and already I had begun to regret the whim that had prompted me, after reading certain latter-day romances, to throw up my career as a barrister in Gray's Inn to emulate the romancer's heroes in real life. Indeed, at the rate of progress I was making then, I calculated that it would be exactly forty-seven and a half years before I could save 1000 pounds out of my expenses, and, with that as a nest-egg, dare to ask pretty Doris Napier to marry me; and hence, as such long engagements were no more fashionable then than they are now, I can assure you I often felt a trifle despondent about my future. Still, that was before José Casteno appeared on the scene in Stanton Street, WC. Afterwards things, as you will see, were different."
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 20 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 7, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface.
15Chapter Fourteen.
2Chapter One.
16Chapter Fifteen.
3Chapter Two.
17Chapter Sixteen.
4Chapter Three.
18Chapter Seventeen.
5Chapter Four.
19Chapter Eighteen.
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6Chapter Five.
20Chapter Nineteen.
7Chapter Six.
21Chapter Twenty.
8Chapter Seven.
22Chapter Twenty One.
9Chapter Eight.
23Chapter Twenty Two.
10Chapter Nine.
24Chapter Twenty Three.
11Chapter Ten.
25Chapter Twenty Four.
12Chapter Eleven.
26Chapter Twenty Five.
13Chapter Twelve.
27Chapter Twenty Six.
14Chapter Thirteen.
28Chapter Twenty Seven.
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