The Trail of the Serpent
Detective Mystery NovelBy Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Length16h 32m
About this audiobook
The Trail of the Serpent concerns the schemes of the orphan Jabez North to acquire an aristocratic fortune, and the efforts of Richard Marwood, aided by his friends, to prove his innocence in the murder of his uncle. Richard returns to the home of his mother in Slopperton after an absence of seven years. His uncle, Montague Harding, having recently returned from the East Indies after amassing a large fortune, is also staying there. After a brief reconciliation, Richard leaves town by the train on the encouragement of Montague. However, on his train journey away from the town, he is approached by two detectives who charge him with the murder of his uncle on the night of his departure. One detective believes that Richard is innocent of the murder, and in the trial that follows manages to arrange that he plead insane, so Richard is interred in a lunatic asylum. Meanwhile, the orphaned schoolmaster Jabez North kills a child under his care after he threatens to reveal Jabez's suspicious activity on the night of the Montague's murder.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller, Romance
Length16 hrs 32 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 6, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Trail of the Serpent
29Chapter IX A Marriage in High Life
2Book the First A Respectable Young Man
30Chapter X Animal Magnetism
3Chapter I The Good Schoolmaster
31Book the Fourth Napoleon the Great
4Chapter II Good for Nothing
32Chapter I The Boy from Slopperton
5Chapter III The Usher Washes His Hands
33Chapter II Mr. Augustus Darley and Mr. Joseph Peters Go Out Fishing
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6Chapter IV Richard Marwood Lights His Pipe
34Chapter III The Emperor Bids Adieu to Elba
7Chapter V The Healing Waters
35Chapter IV Joy and Happiness for Everybody
8Chapter VI Two Coroner’s Inquests
36Chapter V The Cherokees Take an Oath
9Chapter VII The Dumb Detective a Philanthropist
37Chapter VI Mr. Peters Relates How He Thought He had a Clue, and How He Lost It
10Chapter VIII Seven Letters on the Dirty Alphabet
38Book the Fifth The Dumb Detective
11Chapter IX “Mad, Gentlemen of the Jury”
39Chapter I The Count De Marolles at Home
12Book the Second A Clearance of All Scores
40Chapter II Mr. Peters Sees a Ghost
13Chapter I Blind Peter
41Chapter III The Cherokees Mark Their Man
14Chapter II Like and Unlike
42Chapter IV The Captain, the Chemist, and the Lascar
15Chapter III A Golden Secret
43Chapter V The New Milkman in Park Lane
16Chapter IV Jim Looks Over the Brink of the Terrible Gulf
44Chapter VI Signor Mosquetti Relates an Adventure
17Chapter V Midnight by the Slopperton Clocks
45Chapter VII The Golden Secret is Told, and the Golden Bowl is Broken
18Chapter VI The Quiet Figure on the Heath
46Chapter VIII One Step Further on the Right Track
19Chapter VII The Usher Resigns His Situation
47Chapter IX Captain Lansdown Overhears a Conversation Which Appears to Interest Him
20Book the Third A Holy Institution
48Book the Sixth On the Track
21Chapter I The Value of an Opera-Glass
49Chapter I Father and Son
22Chapter II Working in the Dark
50Chapter II Raymond De Marolles Shows Himself Better Than All Bow Street
23Chapter III The Wrong Footstep
51Chapter III The Left-Handed Smasher Makes His Mark
24Chapter IV Ocular Demonstration
52Chapter IV What They Find in the Room in Which the Murder was Committed
25Chapter V The King of Spades
53Chapter V Mr. Peters Decides on a Strange Step, and Arrests the Dead
26Chapter VI A Glass of Wine
54Chapter VI The End of the Dark Road
27Chapter VII The Last Act of Lucretia Borgia
55Chapter the Last Farewell to England
28Chapter VIII Bad Dreams and a Worse Waking
56My First Novel by M. E. Braddon
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