The Riddle of the Sands

The Riddle of the Sands

Spy ThrillerBy Erskine Childers
Michael Caine
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Length12h 6m

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Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, is contacted by an acquaintance, Davies, asking him to join in a yachting holiday in the Baltic Sea. Carruthers agrees, as his other plans for a holiday have fallen through. As they sail off Davies gradually reveals that he suspects that the Germans are undertaking something sinister in the German Frisian islands. This is based on his belief that he was nearly wrecked by a German yacht luring him into a shoal in rough weather during a previous trip. Davies is suspicious about what would motivate the Germans to try to kill him. Having failed to interest anyone in the government in the incident, he feels it is his patriotic duty to investigate further – hence the invitation to Carruthers.

Audiobook details

GenreMystery and Thriller, Historical Fiction
Length12 hrs 6 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 16, 2018
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1The Riddle of the Sands
1715. Bensersiel
2Preface
1816. Commander von Brüning
31. The Letter
1917. Clearing the Air
42. The ‘Dulcibella’
2018. Imperial Escort
53. Davies
2119. The Rubicon
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64. Retrospect
2220. The Little Drab Book
75. Wanted, a North Wind
2321. Blindfold to Memmert
86. Schlei Fiord
2422. The Quartette
97. The Missing Page
2523. A Change of Tactics
108. The Theory
2624. Finesse
119. I Sign Articles
2725. I Double Back
1210. His Chance
2826. The Seven Siels
1311. The Pathfinders
2927. The Luck of the Stowaway
1412. My Initiation
3028. We Achieve our Double Aim
1513. The Meaning of our Work
31Epilogue
1614. The First Night in the Islands
32Postscript (March 1903)

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