The Silver Blade, The True Chronicle of A Double Mystery
By Charles Edmonds Walk
Length11h 44m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: "About six o'clock on an evening in the early part of a recent November, the drowsy quiet sometimes pervading police headquarters was rudely broken by the precipitate entrance of a young man, who made his way hurriedly to the door marked, in neat gilt letters, "CHIEF OF POLICE." In addition to the reserve squad, whose vigil never ends, many other officers were present in the lazy transition stage between going on and going off duty. The attention of them all was immediately attracted to the stranger, and held by his extraordinary manner, from the instant he became visible in the flickering gas-lights until he finally disappeared. In the first place, he was not such a one as usually comes to the city-hall basement, either voluntarily or when haled hither by one of the law's myrmidons; for he was fashionably, even fastidiously, attired, with a marked preciosity of manner which would have been even more noticeable under ordinary conditions. But it was not over any idiosyncrasy of apparel or customary detail of personality that the aroused curiosity of the officers lingered. Inured as they were to uncommon and surprising events, they were nevertheless startled by this young man's advent, and greatly interested in his extreme discomposure. It was obvious to the most casual glance that he was the victim of a fright so potent that it possessed him to the complete exclusion of every other feeling, made him oblivious of the scrutiny to which he was subjected, and drove him blindly to the commission of some idea fixed by the terror which mastered him. And there was one other still more powerful emotion depicted in his pallid, twitching countenance: a horror unspeakable."
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Literary Classics
Length11 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ILLUSTRATIONS
2BOOK I. A DUPLEX PROBLEM
3CHAPTER I EXIT SEÑOR DE SANCHEZ
4CHAPTER II THE FIRST PROBLEM DEVELOPS
5CHAPTER III A SEARCH FOR CLUES
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6CHAPTER IV MR. CONVERSE APPEARS AS CHORUS
7CHAPTER V A TELEGRAM FROM MEXICO
8CHAPTER VI THE INQUEST
9CHAPTER VII THE VERDICT
10CHAPTER VIII CHERCHEZ LA FEMME
11CHAPTER IX THE SECOND PROBLEM
12CHAPTER X FOOTPRINTS
13CHAPTER XI A BURNT FRAGMENT
14CHAPTER XII A DOOR IS OPENED
15BOOK II. CHARLOTTE FAIRCHILD
16CHAPTER I MISS CHARLOTTE WAITS IN THE HALL
17CHAPTER II MISS CHARLOTTE ENTERTAINS A CALLER
18CHAPTER III "PAQUITA—WHAT DO YOU SPELL?"
19CHAPTER IV MISS CHARLOTTE BECOMES A FACTOR
20CHAPTER V A DECISION AND A LETTER
21CHAPTER VI FAINT RAYS FROM STRANGE SOURCES
22CHAPTER VII A VOICE IN THE NIGHT
23CHAPTER VIII THE CORONER'S COUP
24CHAPTER IX THE LIGHT BRIGHTENS—AND DIMS
25BOOK III. SLADE'S BLESSING
26CHAPTER I OPENING WAYS
27CHAPTER II FAIRCHILD REDIVIVUS
28CHAPTER III "THE THUNDERBOLT HAS FALLEN"
29CHAPTER IV SOME LOOSE ENDS
30CHAPTER V MR. SLADE RESIGNS
31CHAPTER VI AN ARREST
32CHAPTER VII "SLADE'S BLESSING"
33BOOK IV. THE DANCER AND THE MOUNTEBANK
34CHAPTER I "THAT IS PAQUITA"
35CHAPTER II THE SERPENT STRIKES
36CHAPTER III WHICH IS THE LAST
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