Classic Audiobook Collection

Tarzan the Terrible by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan book 8. In the previous novel, during the early days of World War I, Tarzan discovered that his wife Jane was not killed in a fire set by German troops, but was in fact alive. In this novel two months have gone by and Tarzan is continuing to search for Jane. He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means 'Land of Men.' In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savageTriceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are carnivorous. The lost valley is also home to two different races of tailed human-looking creatures, the Ho-don (hairless and white skinned) and the Waz-don (hairy and black-skinned). Tarzan befriends Ta-den, a Ho-don warrior, and Om-at, the Waz-don chief of the tribe of Kor-ul-ja. In this new world he becomes a captive but so impresses his captors with his accomplishments and skills that they name him Tarzan-Jad-Guru (Tarzan the Terrible), which is the name of the novel For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:49) Chapter 02 (00:52:05) Chapter 03 (01:17:01) Chapter 04 (01:38:01) Chapter 05 (02:04:54) Chapter 06 (02:33:17) Chapter 07 (02:54:19) Chapter 08 (03:18:21) Chapter 09 (03:37:59) Chapter 10 (04:00:28) Chapter 11 (04:21:25) Chapter 12 (04:41:52) Chapter 13 (05:01:41) Chapter 14 (05:26:11) Chapter 15 (05:48:08) Chapter 16 (06:04:45) Chapter 17 (06:27:42) Chapter 18 (06:49:32) Chapter 19 (07:10:41) Chapter 20 (07:35:22) Chapter 21 (08:01:47) Chapter 22 (08:20:54) Chapter 23 (08:41:19) Chapter 24 (09:01:04) Chapter 25 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Tarzan the Untamed plunges Edgar Rice Burroughs' legendary jungle lord into a world at war, where the law of the wild collides with the brutality of modern conflict. When violence from far beyond Africa's borders shatters Tarzan's fragile peace, he is driven to track the perpetrators across steaming forests, river country, and hostile outposts. Along the way, Tarzan moves between two worlds: the primal realm where he is master of beast and vine, and the human realm of uniforms, secret plots, and shifting loyalties. His hunt draws him into dangerous alliances and bitter rivalries, and forces him to confront what justice means when civilization itself has become savage. Packed with relentless pursuit, daring escapes, and the eerie beauty of the jungle at night, this novel explores vengeance, honor, and the thin line between man and animal. As Tarzan follows a trail of ruin and deception, every choice tests whether the jungle's greatest warrior can remain true to the code that made him a legend. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:29:56) Chapter 02 (01:02:16) Chapter 03 (01:27:24) Chapter 04 (01:59:53) Chapter 05 (02:35:33) Chapter 06 (03:00:49) Chapter 07 (03:30:36) Chapter 08 (04:14:04) Chapter 09 (04:49:12) Chapter 10 (05:26:09) Chapter 11 (05:52:39) Chapter 12 (06:08:24) Chapter 13 (06:23:55) Chapter 14 (06:49:40) Chapter 15 (07:17:44) Chapter 16 (07:36:26) Chapter 17 (07:59:46) Chapter 18 (08:29:24) Chapter 19 (09:08:38) Chapter 20 (09:30:16) Chapter 21 (09:59:37) Chapter 22 (10:19:39) Chapter 23 (10:47:47) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In the depths of equatorial Africa, Tarzan of the Apes is drawn back to the jungle not only by duty, but by a perilous promise of lost wealth and darker mysteries. When a desperate expedition sets its sights on Opar, a hidden and ancient city rumored to hold unthinkable treasure, Tarzan is forced to navigate a landscape where nature is only the first danger. Ruthless outsiders, shifting alliances, and the unforgiving wilderness close in as the hunt for the fabled jewels turns men against one another. Yet Opar itself is the greatest threat: a crumbling remnant of a forgotten civilization guarded by strange rites, fierce warriors, and a high priestess whose ambitions are as deadly as the citys secrets. As Tarzan fights to protect those he loves and to keep greed from igniting catastrophe, he must rely on his unmatched strength, sharp instincts, and hard-won understanding of both the jungle and the human heart. Rich with exotic adventure and pulpy suspense, this tale explores the price of obsession and the thin line between civilization and savagery. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:26) Chapter 02 (00:24:16) Chapter 03 (00:37:58) Chapter 04 (00:52:37) Chapter 05 (01:06:54) Chapter 06 (01:22:06) Chapter 07 (01:32:50) Chapter 08 (01:45:38) Chapter 09 (02:04:53) Chapter 10 (02:22:13) Chapter 11 (02:40:27) Chapter 12 (02:51:17) Chapter 13 (03:11:40) Chapter 14 (03:28:49) Chapter 15 (03:50:23) Chapter 16 (04:12:48) Chapter 17 (04:29:16) Chapter 18 (04:52:58) Chapter 19 (05:15:03) Chapter 20 (05:36:08) Chapter 21 (05:57:35) Chapter 22 (06:18:50) Chapter 23 (06:37:06) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the jungle legend with Son of Tarzan, a fast-paced adventure that follows the unexpected heir to the world's most famous ape-man. Raised in comfort and safety in England, young Jack Clayton knows little of his parents' extraordinary past-until a violent encounter and a trail of secrets draw him toward the darkest corners of his own identity. When Jack becomes entangled with a ruthless band of criminals and a mysterious woman with a dangerous agenda, the conflict spills across continents, from polite drawing rooms to the steaming forests of equatorial Africa. In the wild, where law is written in tooth and claw, Jack must learn to survive, to read the language of animals and men, and to decide what kind of person he will become. As old enemies and new predators close in, the boy is forced to confront the legacy of Tarzan and Jane, the meaning of family, and the pull between civilization and the primal world. With relentless chases, hidden motives, and jungle-peril at every turn, this is a coming-of-age tale forged in the raw heart of adventure. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:53) Chapter 02 (00:40:23) Chapter 03 (01:01:56) Chapter 04 (01:23:15) Chapter 05 (01:48:37) Chapter 06 (02:12:10) Chapter 07 (02:33:46) Chapter 08 (02:56:01) Chapter 09 (03:20:12) Chapter 10 (03:40:24) Chapter 11 (04:02:50) Chapter 12 (04:25:09) Chapter 13 (04:47:50) Chapter 14 (05:09:12) Chapter 15 (05:31:01) Chapter 16 (05:54:19) Chapter 17 (06:14:06) Chapter 18 (06:41:03) Chapter 19 (07:00:13) Chapter 20 (07:23:00) Chapter 21 (07:40:43) Chapter 22 (08:04:22) Chapter 23 (08:29:55) Chapter 24 (08:48:50) Chapter 25 (09:12:15) Chapter 26 (09:34:31) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Beasts of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In The Beasts of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs plunges listeners back into the wild as John Clayton - Lord Greystoke, known to the world as Tarzan - is forced into a desperate fight to protect his family and his name. After trying to live a civilized life, Tarzan finds himself targeted by ruthless enemies who use deceit and kidnapping to drag him into a dangerous chase that stretches from Europe to the African jungle. Separated from his wife Jane and their young son, Tarzan must rely on every hard-won skill from his upbringing among apes - strength, cunning, and an unbreakable bond with the wilderness. Along the way, he gathers an unforgettable and sometimes eerie band of allies: fierce jungle creatures and loyal companions who become his only army against men armed with greed and cruelty. As Tarzan battles treachery, captivity, and the pull between two worlds, the story explores identity, loyalty, and what it truly means to be human - or beast - when everything you love is at stake. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:47) Chapter 02 (00:29:46) Chapter 03 (00:48:58) Chapter 04 (01:05:32) Chapter 05 (01:21:08) Chapter 06 (01:36:52) Chapter 07 (01:51:57) Chapter 08 (02:07:47) Chapter 09 (02:22:48) Chapter 10 (02:37:37) Chapter 11 (02:51:50) Chapter 12 (03:07:57) Chapter 13 (03:21:27) Chapter 14 (03:35:22) Chapter 15 (03:50:34) Chapter 16 (04:04:35) Chapter 17 (04:17:37) Chapter 18 (04:36:43) Chapter 19 (04:43:44) Chapter 20 (05:01:04) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure Lord John Clayton, better known as Tarzan of the Apes, has tried to live as an English gentleman, but the call of the jungle refuses to fade. When danger threatens those he loves and old enemies resurface, Tarzan is drawn back toward the wild country that made him. His journey takes him from drawing rooms and city streets to the dense African interior, where rival adventurers, ruthless hunters, and shadowy plots collide over treasure and power. Along the way, Tarzan must navigate shifting alliances among Europeans and Africans alike, confronting brutal greed and the corrosive effects of civilization as surely as the fangs and claws of the wilderness. Tested by captivity, betrayal, and pursuit, he relies on his unmatched strength and instincts, but also on hard-won compassion and honor. As the stakes rise, Tarzan faces the central question that has haunted him since his discovery of his true heritage: where does he truly belong, and what does he owe to the two worlds that claim him? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:06) Chapter 02 (00:40:32) Chapter 03 (01:01:22) Chapter 04 (01:26:24) Chapter 05 (01:47:18) Chapter 06 (02:08:04) Chapter 07 (02:29:47) Chapter 08 (02:50:17) Chapter 09 (03:14:27) Chapter 10 (03:34:51) Chapter 11 (03:55:55) Chapter 12 (04:17:17) Chapter 13 (04:47:21) Chapter 14 (05:09:58) Chapter 15 (05:32:01) Chapter 16 (05:51:26) Chapter 17 (06:13:14) Chapter 18 (06:38:22) Chapter 19 (06:57:38) Chapter 20 (07:17:41) Chapter 21 (07:39:55) Chapter 22 (08:01:25) Chapter 23 (08:20:44) Chapter 24 (08:39:39) Chapter 25 (09:01:00) Chapter 26 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A House to Let by Charles Dickens audiobook. Genre: mystery A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the story was edited by Dickens, who also wrote the first and last chapters with Wilkie Collins. The plot concerns an elderly woman, Sophonisba, who notices signs of life in a supposedly empty dilapidated house (the eponymous 'House to Let') opposite her own, and employs the efforts of an elderly admirer, Jabez Jarber, and her servant, Trottle, to discover what is happening within For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:37:36) Chapter 2 (01:09:35) Chapter 3 (02:01:26) Chapter 4 (02:39:45) Chapter 5 (03:01:06) Chapter 6 (03:40:27) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery At a glittering New York ball, plain, practical Rita Van Arsdale is stunned when Anson Durand, the man she has quietly admired, proposes marriage. Moments later the night turns sinister: the celebrated beauty Mrs. Fairbrother is discovered murdered in a curtained recess known as the alcove, and the spectacular diamond that drew every eye has vanished. Whispers race through the mansion, the guests become suspects, and the police close in - with Anson uncomfortably near the center of suspicion. Refusing to let her future be decided by rumor and circumstantial evidence, Rita begins to watch, listen, and reconstruct the evening's hidden movements for herself. Moving between drawing rooms and back corridors, she confronts coded conversations, social rivalries, and a household full of people with something to conceal, while working alongside official investigators whose methods do not always match her instincts. Anna Katharine Green blends courtroom-sharp logic with high-society tension in a mystery where love complicates testimony, appearances mislead, and one secluded alcove holds the key to a deadly truth. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:48) Chapter 02 (00:52:14) Chapter 03 (01:23:30) Chapter 04 (01:42:50) Chapter 05 (02:06:02) Chapter 06 (02:20:28) Chapter 07 (02:54:19) Chapter 08 (03:00:25) Chapter 09 (03:13:16) Chapter 10 (03:25:37) Chapter 11 (03:38:01) Chapter 12 (03:56:58) Chapter 13 (04:17:53) Chapter 14 (04:40:17) Chapter 15 (04:59:53) Chapter 16 (05:11:47) Chapter 17 (05:26:54) Chapter 18 (05:37:32) Chapter 19 (05:43:42) Chapter 20 (05:55:19) Chapter 21 (06:11:16) Chapter 22 (06:21:07) Chapter 23 (06:51:34) Chapter 24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Thief by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In Anna Katharine Green's classic short mystery The Thief, an elegant dinner party is interrupted by a small disaster with big consequences: a valuable coin, passed from hand to hand for everyone to admire, suddenly vanishes. With polite society teetering on the edge of scandal, the host tries to restore order by proposing a simple, seemingly fair test - each gentleman will empty his pockets to prove his innocence. The plan works at once for most of the company...until one guest flatly refuses the search and abruptly leaves the house. His defiance turns a parlor-room puzzle into a question of character, motive, and appearances: is the bold objector the obvious culprit, or is he protecting something else that would be just as damaging if revealed? As suspicion spreads, Green uses tight, conversational narration and keen social observation to explore how quickly reputations can be dismantled, and how easily circumstantial evidence can mislead. The result is a compact, sharply constructed whodunit in which every gesture and hesitation matters, and the truth hides in the details everyone thinks they can safely ignore. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:25:35) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Sword of Damocles by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In gilded Gilded Age New York, Bertram Mandeville has talent, charm, and a rising reputation as a concert pianist - yet love makes him restless. Convinced that art alone cannot win the woman he adores, Bertram turns from the keyboard to the ruthless promises of Wall Street, placing his future in the hands of his powerful relative, Mr. Sylvester. Then a strange summons arrives, carried through the city by a shadowy messenger, and Bertram is drawn into a web that reaches far beyond romance: a young woman named Paula, shaken by recent tragedy and guarded by formidable aunts, moves like a quiet riddle through drawing rooms and village lanes, while whispers gather around a grand house, a lingering old woman, and questions no one dares ask aloud. As money, reputation, and affection become dangerously intertwined, doors that should stay closed begin to open - in banks, in homes, and in human hearts. With the threat of scandal and judgment hanging overhead like the fabled sword, Green builds a story of ambition and conscience, where justice and mercy may demand very different prices. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:04:27) Chapter 02 (00:17:40) Chapter 03 (00:40:24) Chapter 04 (01:04:46) Chapter 05 (01:31:56) Chapter 06 (01:36:34) Chapter 07 (01:53:16) Chapter 08 (02:10:02) Chapter 09 (02:39:28) Chapter 10 (02:55:58) Chapter 11 (03:19:18) Chapter 12 (03:43:39) Chapter 13 (04:12:14) Chapter 14 (04:47:00) Chapter 15 (05:06:46) Chapter 16 (05:35:38) Chapter 17 (06:02:19) Chapter 18 (06:10:19) Chapter 19 (06:25:19) Chapter 20 (06:45:32) Chapter 21 (07:06:55) Chapter 22 (07:30:49) Chapter 23 (07:54:07) Chapter 24 (08:18:36) Chapter 25 (08:44:29) Chapter 26 (09:15:59) Chapter 27 (09:30:17) Chapter 28 (09:59:09) Chapter 29 (10:03:48) Chapter 30 (10:23:33) Chapter 31 (10:36:31) Chapter 32 (11:07:34) Chapter 33 (11:31:29) Chapter 34 (11:55:52) Chapter 35 (12:31:46) Chapter 36 (12:43:25) Chapter 37 (13:24:30) Chapter 38 (13:34:25) Chapter 39 (14:38:13) Chapter 40 (14:42:09) Chapter 41 (15:20:10) Chapter 42 (15:33:24) Chapter 43 (15:41:03) Chapter 44 (16:02:47) Chapter 45 (16:20:38) Chapter 46 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Staircase at the Heart’s Delight by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In turn-of-the-century New York, veteran police detective Ebenezer Gryce is unsettled by a pattern of deaths that look like simple accidents: prominent, well-to-do men pulled from the water, drowned under circumstances that never quite add up. With no obvious suspect and only the city's whispers to guide him, Gryce's attention sharpens when a shaken young man arrives with a disturbing story: a crooked pawnbroker who hints, with chilling confidence, that the death of a rich father can be arranged like any other transaction. Following that thread leads Gryce away from respectable parlors and into the riverfront shadows, toward a rough drinking house known as The Heart's Delight, where desperate men gamble, talk too freely, and vanish. To reach the truth, Gryce must risk an undercover role that tests his nerve and his judgment, navigating a web of greed, intimidation, and carefully engineered misdirection. At the center of it all is a notorious staircase and a place built to turn a single misstep into silence, unless Gryce can read the trap before it closes. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:16:21) Chapter 2 (00:36:03) Chapter 3 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery It is the noon hour at a museum in New York City. The date: May 23, 1913. The weekday, attendance is light; the attendees are scattered between two floors. Suddenly a cry rings out from the second floor. Scrambling to Section II, the museum director discovers a teenage girl dead with an arrow through her heart. An older woman hovers over her whispering incoherent phrases in the girl's ear and offering incomprehensible answers to the director's questions. She is the only witness to the crime, or accident, as the case may be. How will the feeble, 83 year-old Mr. Gryce unravel this mystery when this witness is apparently insane? Anna Katharine Green was noted for her scientific approach to the murder mystery. In The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow she breaks more ground with her in-depth study of the psychological interplay between the murderer, the victim and the witnesses. Although more quietly paced, this mystery presents many elements of a current psychological thriller: blind ambition, narcissism, obsession and betrayal. Green adds a peculiar twist with the fact that two heartbroken relatives of the victim sacrifice virtually everything to protect the murderer For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:22) Chapter 02 (00:34:43) Chapter 03 (00:50:58) Chapter 04 (01:12:04) Chapter 05 (01:34:12) Chapter 06 (01:42:22) Chapter 07 (02:10:54) Chapter 08 (02:38:19) Chapter 09 (02:56:37) Chapter 10 (03:10:29) Chapter 11 (03:17:40) Chapter 12 (03:30:16) Chapter 13 (03:41:12) Chapter 14 (04:01:41) Chapter 15 (04:10:27) Chapter 16 (04:27:00) Chapter 17 (04:36:14) Chapter 18 (04:54:09) Chapter 19 (05:21:32) Chapter 20 (05:42:46) Chapter 21 (05:51:39) Chapter 22 (06:03:54) Chapter 23 (06:17:24) Chapter 24 (06:40:48) Chapter 25 (06:53:33) Chapter 26 (07:21:28) Chapter 27 (07:30:26) Chapter 28 (07:36:44) Chapter 29 (07:56:53) Chapter 30 (08:16:34) Chapter 31 (08:28:00) Chapter 32 (08:35:37) Chapter 33 (09:09:42) Chapter 34 (09:38:41) Chapter 35 (09:44:53) Chapter 36 (10:13:19) Chapter 37 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Millionaire Baby by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When six-year-old Gwendolen Ocumpaugh vanishes from her wealthy family's estate, New York is jolted by a chilling headline and an even more startling offer: a five-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to the child's recovery, alive or dead. The announcement is irresistible to Mr. Trevitt, a private detective whose recent failures have left his reputation frayed and his finances desperate. He knows the Ocumpaugh name, understands how quickly public sympathy can curdle into suspicion, and senses that the case is far more intricate than a simple snatch-and-run. As the search expands from polished drawing rooms to shadowed lanes and riverbanks, every clue seems to point in two directions at once, and every witness carries a private motive. With the police pressing for answers, the press inflaming rumors, and the family's own relationships tightening into knots, Trevitt must separate performance from truth in a world where money buys both silence and deception. Anna Katharine Green blends methodical investigation with social tension, building a suspenseful puzzle about status, secrecy, and the perilous distance between public appearances and private lives. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:34:12) Chapter 02 (00:45:25) Chapter 03 (01:01:46) Chapter 04 (01:23:18) Chapter 05 (01:38:01) Chapter 06 (02:02:07) Chapter 07 (02:15:16) Chapter 08 (02:31:16) Chapter 09 (02:44:19) Chapter 10 (02:54:00) Chapter 11 (03:42:42) Chapter 12 (04:06:53) Chapter 13 (04:11:59) Chapter 14 (04:18:51) Chapter 15 (04:24:09) Chapter 16 (04:50:23) Chapter 17 (05:11:33) Chapter 18 (05:28:29) Chapter 19 (05:42:22) Chapter 20 (06:00:40) Chapter 21 (06:35:50) Chapter 22 (06:43:51) Chapter 23 (06:55:45) Chapter 24 (07:04:40) Chapter 25 (07:07:12) Chapter 26 (07:19:17) Chapter 27 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet New England village, an abandoned mill becomes the scene of a scandal that the town cannot stop talking about. The Reverend Mr. Barrows, admired for his gentleness and moral certainty, is discovered dead in the mill's shadowy interior, and the simplest explanations spread fast: a tragic accident, or a despairing suicide. But the facts do not sit easily with Ada Reynolds, the young woman bound to him by a secret engagement, and her certainty makes her an immediate target for gossip and suspicion. When Ada herself dies the very same day, her grieving roommate, Constance Sterling - an orphan with little money, fewer allies, and a fierce sense of loyalty - finds she cannot accept the story the village has already chosen. Drawn into a web of whispered motives, guarded relationships, and a second, unexpected connection to a wealthy matron on the far side of town, Constance begins to trace the narrow path between what is publicly believed and what is privately true. As each new clue deepens the mystery of the mill, Constance must decide how far she will go to clear a name, expose a lie, and survive the consequences of asking forbidden questions. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:16:20) Chapter 02 (00:49:01) Chapter 03 (01:16:09) Chapter 04 (01:29:55) Chapter 05 (01:47:15) Chapter 06 (02:04:38) Chapter 07 (02:21:29) Chapter 08 (02:42:39) Chapter 09 (02:59:43) Chapter 10 (03:18:42) Chapter 11 (03:51:13) Chapter 12 (04:06:01) Chapter 13 (04:27:21) Chapter 14 (04:42:52) Chapter 15 (05:09:23) Chapter 16 (05:35:12) Chapter 17 (05:54:11) Chapter 18 (06:12:30) Chapter 19 (06:28:27) Chapter 20 (06:48:35) Chapter 21 (07:16:33) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy New York banker is found murdered in his own home, the crime threatens to shatter a powerful family and ignite a public scandal. The victim's household is full of secrets: anxious relatives, wary servants, and visitors whose alibis crumble under scrutiny. Into this uneasy maze steps detective Ebenezer Gryce, a methodical investigator whose quiet persistence and sharp eye for detail make him uniquely suited to unraveling contradictions that others overlook. As the inquiry deepens, Gryce must weigh hard evidence against social appearances, navigate the rigid expectations placed on women and family honor, and follow a trail of letters, locked rooms, and troubling omissions. Each witness seems to know just enough to mislead, and every new discovery raises a fresh question about motive, opportunity, and the hidden histories that bind the Leavenworth name together. With tension building in courtrooms and drawing rooms alike, the case becomes a battle between truth and reputation, and Gryce must solve the puzzle before an irreversible accusation destroys the wrong life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:13:04) Chapter 02 (00:22:05) Chapter 03 (00:50:09) Chapter 04 (01:00:20) Chapter 05 (01:13:11) Chapter 06 (01:22:56) Chapter 07 (01:35:53) Chapter 08 (01:59:47) Chapter 09 (02:15:07) Chapter 10 (02:32:36) Chapter 11 (02:44:12) Chapter 12 (02:55:38) Chapter 13 (03:08:56) Chapter 14 (03:28:20) Chapter 15 (03:44:48) Chapter 16 (03:52:09) Chapter 17 (04:09:59) Chapter 18 (04:21:55) Chapter 19 (04:33:20) Chapter 20 (04:43:16) Chapter 21 (04:54:34) Chapter 22 (05:23:33) Chapter 23 (05:38:29) Chapter 24 (05:53:53) Chapter 25 (06:05:58) Chapter 26 (06:24:06) Chapter 27 (06:34:54) Chapter 28 (06:57:24) Chapter 29 (07:05:45) Chapter 30 (07:16:08) Chapter 31 (07:33:27) Chapter 32 (08:21:28) Chapter 33 (08:31:41) Chapter 34 (08:59:20) Chapter 35 (09:20:21) Chapter 36 (09:34:53) Chapter 37 (09:52:59) Chapter 38 (10:28:39) Chapter 39 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a snowbound corner of New York society, the seasonal clubhouse known as The Whispering Pines has been shut and locked for the winter - or so Elwood Ranelagh believes. Then, only a day after the closing, he spots smoke curling from its chimney. Uneasy, he forces his way inside and catches a startling glimpse in the gloom: Carmel Cumberland, his fiancee's sister - the woman he cannot stop thinking about - fleeing the house in tears. Upstairs, he finds the body of his betrothed, Adelaide Cumberland, and in an instant his private conflicts become a public scandal. With motives tangled in jealousy, inheritance, and long-buried resentments, suspicion spreads through the Cumberland circle and beyond, and Elwood's own divided heart makes him an easy target for rumor and accusation. When an experienced investigator is drawn into the case, every witness, every object left behind, and every carefully chosen word begins to matter. Set against a bleak winter landscape and a cloistered world of respectability, Anna Katharine Green builds a classic puzzle of alibis, misdirection, and quiet menace where the whispers in the pines are not the only secrets waiting to be uncovered. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:32) Chapter 02 (00:31:46) Chapter 03 (00:53:33) Chapter 04 (01:06:19) Chapter 05 (01:32:06) Chapter 06 (01:45:38) Chapter 1 (02:05:13) Chapter 2 (02:24:59) Chapter 08 (02:39:19) Chapter 09 (03:00:45) Chapter 10 (03:17:38) Chapter 11 (03:33:25) Chapter 12 (03:48:17) Chapter 13 (03:57:50) Chapter 14 (04:18:02) Chapter 15 (04:35:30) Chapter 16 (04:57:51) Chapter 3 (05:19:05) Chapter 4 (05:38:23) Chapter 18 (05:45:37) Chapter 19 (06:02:03) Chapter 20 (06:24:01) Chapter 21 (06:33:56) Chapter 22 (07:03:41) Chapter 23 (07:29:19) Chapter 24 (07:46:04) Chapter 5 (08:09:21) Chapter 6 (08:35:46) Chapter 26 (09:03:44) Chapter 27 (09:08:09) Chapter 7 (09:27:06) Chapter 8 (09:44:20) Chapter 9 (10:03:46) Chapter 10 (10:25:55) Chapter 11 (10:45:05) Chapter 12 (11:01:36) Chapter 31 (11:28:52) Chapter 32 (11:46:55) Chapter 33 (12:17:24) Chapter 34 (12:27:29) Chapter 35 (12:36:16) Chapter 36 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself. Being young, untrammeled, and naturally indifferent to danger, I was not averse to adventure; and having my fortune to make, was always on the lookout for El Dorado, which, to ardent souls, lies ever beyond the next turning. Consequently, when I saw a light shimmering through the mist at my right, I resolved to make for it and the shelter it so opportunely offered. But I did not realize then, as I do now, that shelter does not necessarily imply refuge, or I might not have undertaken this adventure with so light a heart. Yet, who knows? The impulses of an unfettered spirit lean toward daring, and youth, as I have said, seeks the strange, the unknown and, sometimes, the terrible. (Exerpt from Chapter I) For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:21:32) Chapter 2 (00:37:43) Chapter 2 (00:49:28) Chapter 3 (01:20:35) Chapter 4 (01:38:13) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Forsaken Inn by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery Told from the perspective of a Mrs. Truax, the owner of an inn during the time of the American and French Revolutions, 'The Forsaken Inn' is a locked-room mystery that keeps readers guessing about what has happened. A young couple stays at the inn for the night, and goes on their way in the morning ... and several years later, the bride's body is found in a secret room of the inn. Yet, many people saw that bride leave with her husband. How can this be? Green tells her tale through Mrs. Truax' diary, and through letters and discussions with other characters who were friends of the young couple. An entertaining and highly recommended read. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:28) Chapter 02 (00:36:25) Chapter 03 (01:00:39) Chapter 04 (01:14:07) Chapter 05 (01:22:49) Chapter 06 (01:37:14) Chapter 07 (02:00:57) Chapter 08 (02:08:13) Chapter 09 (02:23:30) Chapter 10 (02:30:45) Chapter 11 (02:37:30) Chapter 12 (02:43:29) Chapter 13 (02:57:44) Chapter 14 (03:09:07) Chapter 15 (03:22:26) Chapter 16 (03:33:55) Chapter 17 (03:45:01) Chapter 18 (04:07:23) Chapter 19 (04:18:52) Chapter 20 (04:35:08) Chapter 21 (04:56:52) Chapter 22 (05:22:20) Chapter 23 (05:36:04) Chapter 24 (05:50:21) Chapter 25 (05:57:40) Chapter 26 (06:12:11) Chapter 27 (06:16:35) Chapter 28 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Filigree Ball by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery [The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial times; but the shadow which speedily fell across it made it a marked place even in those early days. While it has always escaped the hackneyed epithet of 'haunted,' families that have moved in have as quickly moved out, giving as their excuse that no happiness was to be found there and that sleep was impossible under its roof. That there was some reason for this lack of rest within walls which were not without their tragic reminiscences, all must acknowledge. Death had often occurred there, and while this fact can be stated in regard to most old houses, it is not often that one can say, as in this case, that it was invariably sudden and invariably of one character. A lifeless man, lying outstretched on a certain hearthstone, might be found once in a house and awaken no special comment; but when this same discovery has been made twice, if not thrice, during the history of a single dwelling, one might surely be pardoned a distrust of its seemingly home-like appointments, and discern in its slowly darkening walls the presence of an evil which if left to itself might perish in the natural decay of the place, but which, if met and challenged, might strike again and make another blot on its thrice-crimsoned hearthstone. - Excerpt from Chapter I For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:14:06) Chapter 02 (00:46:46) Chapter 03 (01:26:48) Chapter 04 (01:52:40) Chapter 05 (02:12:37) Chapter 06 (02:47:20) Chapter 07 (03:12:25) Chapter 08 (03:27:08) Chapter 09 (03:34:21) Chapter 10 (04:06:22) Chapter 11 (04:27:56) Chapter 12 (04:52:41) Chapter 13 (05:16:43) Chapter 14 (05:37:36) Chapter 15 (05:49:38) Chapter 16 (06:03:53) Chapter 17 (06:38:40) Chapter 18 (06:55:10) Chapter 19 (07:25:04) Chapter 20 (07:43:43) Chapter 21 (07:55:00) Chapter 22 (08:21:52) Chapter 23 (08:50:38) Chapter 24 (09:14:23) Chapter 25 (09:45:11) Chapter 26 (10:08:16) Chapter 27 (10:35:02) Chapter 28 (10:50:09) Chapter 29 (11:12:13) Chapter 30 (11:35:16) Chapter 31 (11:56:31) Chapter 32 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a wealthy New York gentleman is found shot dead in his own home, the crime seems impossible to untangle: the house offers few clear clues, the night was quiet, and suspicion falls in unsettling directions. Called in to restore order is the shrewd, methodical detective Ebenezer Gryce, whose calm persistence has solved society's most delicate scandals before. This time, the trail leads next door to Dr. Zabriskie, a respected physician whose blindness should place him beyond suspicion - and yet whose strange behavior and troubled marriage invite uncomfortable questions. At the doctor's side is his beautiful, anxious wife, caught between loyalty and fear as rumor hardens into accusation. And then there is the clock: a small, ordinary object whose steady ticking becomes a crucial measure of time, truth, and human perception. As Gryce reconstructs the night's movements and tests what witnesses think they heard and saw, private tensions rise to the surface and the boundaries between guilt, grief, and self-deception begin to blur. Anna Katharine Green builds a taut, psychological mystery where every sound matters and every assumption may be fatally wrong. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:24:40) Chapter 02 (00:50:08) Chapter 03 (01:19:43) Chapter 04 (01:42:51) Chapter 05 (02:00:28) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Circular Study by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City neighborhood, he finds the body of a man brutally stabbed to death, yet lovingly laid out on the floor of his study. The only apparent witnesses are a deaf and dumb butler driven mad by the event, and a caged bird that sings out a vital but puzzling clue. Before he solves the crime, with the help of the redoubtable Miss Amelia Butterworth, Gryce must uncover a motive that spans generations and the passions that have kept it alive. Anna Katharine Green was a pioneering writer of detective fiction in the United States. Her first such novel, The Leavenworth Case, was published in 1878. She is credited with changing the genre by making her stories legally accurate. She invented the 'girl detective.' But her works remained popular because of their lively, twisting plots and the strong characters she developed. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:11:46) Chapter 02 (00:29:17) Chapter 03 (00:39:25) Chapter 04 (00:54:47) Chapter 05 (01:21:50) Chapter 06 (01:49:32) Chapter 07 (02:09:58) Chapter 08 (02:30:36) Chapter 09 (02:40:57) Chapter 10 (03:07:38) Chapter 11 (03:27:24) Chapter 12 (03:35:40) Chapter 13 (03:48:20) Chapter 14 (03:54:33) Chapter 15 (04:15:38) Chapter 16 (04:30:15) Chapter 17 (04:45:42) Chapter 18 (05:08:11) Chapter 19 (05:23:46) Chapter 20 (05:32:47) Chapter 21 (06:01:36) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Amethyst Box by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery On the evening before his wedding, well-to-do collector Sinclair shows off a strange and beautiful curiosity: an amethyst box concealing a minute vial of deadly poison. When the box vanishes soon after, the celebration curdles into panic. Sinclair turns to his closest friend and best man, Worthington, with a fear he can barely speak aloud: only two people had the chance to take it - Sinclair's bride-to-be, Gilbertine, or her cousin Dorothy, the very woman Worthington quietly loves. If the poison remains in the wrong hands, a life could be ended with a single drop; if Sinclair voices his suspicions, he risks ruining reputations and detonating a scandal on the threshold of marriage. Together the two men begin a tense, clandestine search through drawing rooms, corridors, and carefully guarded secrets, weighing every gesture and every half-heard remark for meaning. As the hours count down and trust frays, Green builds a classic mystery of motive and misdirection, where devotion, jealousy, and honor collide under the bright surface of society's rules. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:19:53) Chapter 2 (00:40:24) Chapter 3 (00:59:27) Chapter 4 (01:10:25) Chapter 5 (01:24:16) Chapter 6 (01:44:18) Chapter 7 (01:55:14) Chapter 8 (02:23:12) Chapter 9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Chief Legatee by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery On the very day of her brilliant New York wedding, Georgian Hazen begins to act like a woman under sentence. Within hours of registering at a hotel with her new husband, Roger J. Ransom, the bride vanishes, leaving behind only bewildering clues and a reputation that society is eager to shred. Roger follows the trail to the rain-soaked countryside of Georgian's childhood, where her fierce, half-wild sister Anitra still haunts every memory - and where the roar of a nearby waterfall seems to call the desperate toward darkness. As a quiet investigation hardens into a race against scandal and time, lawyer Harper and a seasoned detective are drawn into a puzzle of locked doors, mistaken identities, and a past Georgian tried to bury. Then comes the shock that turns grief into suspicion: Georgian's will names an unknown man, Josiah Auchincloss, as chief legatee to the greater part of her fortune, while those closest to her are left with questions instead of comfort. In Anna Katharine Green's hands, love, money, and family secrets collide, and every new fact threatens to overturn what Roger believes he knows about the woman he married. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:19:10) Chapter 02 (00:26:47) Chapter 03 (00:40:59) Chapter 04 (00:50:16) Chapter 05 (01:09:57) Chapter 06 (01:17:02) Chapter 07 (01:28:33) Chapter 08 (01:41:51) Chapter 09 (01:56:00) Chapter 10 (02:11:33) Chapter 11 (02:18:33) Chapter 12 (02:23:08) Chapter 13 (02:34:36) Chapter 14 (03:13:18) Chapter 15 (03:31:40) Chapter 16 (03:43:03) Chapter 17 (03:55:37) Chapter 18 (04:22:16) Chapter 19 (04:40:17) Chapter 20 (04:50:18) Chapter 21 (05:10:25) Chapter 22 (05:22:44) Chapter 23 (05:28:14) Chapter 24 (05:37:51) Chapter 25 (05:51:08) Chapter 26 (06:04:21) Chapter 27 (06:12:52) Chapter 28 (06:37:08) Chapter 29 (06:54:03) Chapter 30 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Bronze Hand by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In anxious pre-Civil War Baltimore, young Abbott has time on his hands and an obsession he cannot explain: the striking, secretive woman who lodges in the room below his. When a thief snatches a ring from her hand as she closes her shutters, she turns to Abbott instead of the police, insisting the stolen trinket is far more dangerous than it looks. Her name is Miss Calhoun, and she binds him to silence before sending him into a shabby office building to keep watch over a locked box in Dr. Merriam's rooms. Inside lies the novel's unsettling emblem: a bronze hand displayed on a cushion, its fingers meant to bear rings of a peculiar make. If a certain ring is placed on a certain finger, Miss Calhoun fears an irreversible verdict will be set in motion. As Abbott navigates suspicious onlookers, cryptic warnings, and a shadowy network that seems to punish betrayal with death, his gallant impulse hardens into a moral test: how far can he go to help a woman in peril without becoming an instrument of the very evil he is trying to stop? citeturn2view0turn3view1 For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:18:47) Chapter 2 (00:37:17) Chapter 3 (01:02:12) Chapter 4 (01:17:35) Chapter 5 (01:23:45) Chapter 6 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That Affair Next Door by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In a quiet New York neighborhood of well-kept brownstones and closely watched manners, a sudden gunshot shatters the calm and a young woman is found dead behind a locked door. With the police baffled by a case that seems to point everywhere and nowhere at once, the investigation turns to the people who knew the household best - the neighbors who heard fragments of voices through walls, noticed who came and went, and carried private grudges behind polite smiles. Enter Amelia Butterworth, an independent, sharp-eyed society woman whose sense of order is matched only by her curiosity. Refusing to be dismissed as an idle onlooker, Amelia begins collecting observations the professionals overlook, comparing alibis, testing assumptions, and pushing past the limits placed on her as a woman of her time. As suspicion spreads along the row and every parlor conversation becomes a clue, Amelia finds herself in a contest of wits with hidden motives, class expectations, and the dangerous consequences of prying into other people's secrets. Part mystery puzzle and part social portrait, the story builds through meticulous detail toward a truth that will not stay safely behind closed doors. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:35:17) Chapter 02 (01:02:33) Chapter 03 (01:24:37) Chapter 04 (02:03:53) Chapter 05 (02:39:35) Chapter 06 (03:22:23) Chapter 07 (04:07:29) Chapter 08 (04:30:40) Chapter 09 (04:59:45) Chapter 10 (05:34:25) Chapter 11 (06:10:40) Chapter 12 (06:55:30) Chapter 13 (07:14:00) Chapter 14 (07:26:09) Chapter 15 (08:05:11) Chapter 16 (08:51:28) Chapter 17 (09:15:06) Chapter 18 (09:30:08) Chapter 19 (09:49:07) Chapter 20 (10:07:57) Chapter 21 (10:36:03) Chapter 22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One of My Sons by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery On a raw autumn evening in New York, young lawyer Arthur Outhwaite is stopped in the street by a terrified child who begs him to come at once to her grandfather. Inside the elegant Gillespie house, Arthur arrives just in time to witness a powerful man at the edge of death, and to receive a final, baffling charge: a sealed letter must be delivered to one person, and to that person only - but the dying man cannot name the recipient before the last breath is gone. Almost immediately, the household closes ranks, rumors ignite, and the death of wealthy stockbroker Archibald Gillespie becomes more than a family tragedy. When suspicion falls within the home itself and a father seems to have named his own killer, the case draws in the relentless detective Ebenezer Gryce and his keen associate Caleb Sweetwater. As Arthur tries to untangle his unwanted connection to the affair, the investigation moves from drawing-room silences to hard questions about loyalty, reputation, and what desperate people will do to keep the past buried. In Green's hands, every gesture and scrap of evidence becomes a potential key - or a carefully placed trap. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:26) Chapter 02 (00:31:35) Chapter 03 (00:48:30) Chapter 04 (00:57:19) Chapter 05 (01:16:10) Chapter 06 (01:22:29) Chapter 07 (01:47:53) Chapter 08 (02:25:11) Chapter 09 (02:37:21) Chapter 10 (02:45:25) Chapter 11 (02:49:16) Chapter 12 (02:58:50) Chapter 13 (03:27:00) Chapter 14 (03:46:32) Chapter 15 (03:57:56) Chapter 16 (04:15:40) Chapter 17 (04:45:58) Chapter 18 (05:02:54) Chapter 19 (05:11:19) Chapter 20 (05:25:30) Chapter 21 (05:42:57) Chapter 22 (06:01:30) Chapter 23 (06:27:43) Chapter 24 (06:52:10) Chapter 25 (07:03:33) Chapter 26 (07:18:35) Chapter 27 (07:34:33) Chapter 28 (08:28:19) Chapter 29 (08:39:45) Chapter 30 (08:50:28) Chapter 31 (09:03:41) Chapter 32 (09:15:53) Chapter 33 (09:28:35) Chapter 34 (09:48:01) Chapter 35 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Missing - Page Thirteen by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery The story revolves around a brave, young and quite petite female detective known by the name of Violet Strange. As she is summoned to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from a very important document, her insight and deduction skills become essential to the lives of several individuals who add color and dimension to Green's story. They are the chemical scientist, the bride and groom and the eccentric misanthrope. Will the brilliant young detective be able to solve this unusual mystery, and what other unknowns will she be able to uncover during her investigations? This is one of the most enticing and thrilling stories Green has written. Nicknamed the mother of modern detective fiction, she carefully and intricately weaves every facet of the story into a whole fabric that unfolds quite brilliantly toward the end. Always one step ahead of us. Green opens up a world of mystery and deduction that very few other authors were able to create. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:59) Chapter 02 (00:58:43) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lost Man’s Lane by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery When a quiet upstate New York village gains a chilling nickname for a lonely stretch of road, the rumors are too persistent to ignore: over the years, men have simply vanished while walking alone along the same country lane. Veteran police inspector Ebenezer Gryce believes the pattern points to something darker than chance, but the case offers few solid leads and even fewer witnesses. Needing eyes and instincts outside official channels, he turns to Miss Amelia Butterworth, a sharp-minded society woman whose previous brush with crime-solving left her both wary and intrigued. Amelia seizes on a convenient pretext to investigate in person: a visit to the children of a late school friend, who live in a decaying house at the far end of the notorious lane. There, uneasy hospitality, stubbornly guarded family secrets, ominous sounds behind locked doors, and a cast of watchful neighbors tighten the atmosphere with Gothic dread. As another disappearance threatens to make the lane live up to its name, Amelia must balance propriety, courage, and cold logic to uncover what the village refuses to say aloud. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:07:01) Chapter 02 (00:31:16) Chapter 03 (00:55:43) Chapter 04 (01:07:27) Chapter 05 (01:20:47) Chapter 06 (01:29:05) Chapter 07 (01:42:38) Chapter 08 (01:50:09) Chapter 09 (02:06:44) Chapter 10 (02:18:33) Chapter 11 (02:40:32) Chapter 12 (02:58:52) Chapter 13 (03:08:59) Chapter 14 (03:30:55) Chapter 15 (03:41:33) Chapter 16 (03:58:27) Chapter 17 (04:19:24) Chapter 18 (04:42:36) Chapter 19 (04:54:47) Chapter 20 (05:03:42) Chapter 21 (05:15:44) Chapter 22 (05:36:25) Chapter 23 (05:56:17) Chapter 24 (06:16:33) Chapter 25 (06:25:07) Chapter 26 (06:37:59) Chapter 27 (06:44:16) Chapter 28 (06:52:27) Chapter 29 (07:02:14) Chapter 30 (07:09:22) Chapter 31 (07:29:20) Chapter 32 (07:37:07) Chapter 33 (08:12:14) Chapter 34 (08:16:39) Chapter 35 (08:29:17) Chapter 36 (09:09:08) Chapter 37 (09:18:03) Chapter 38 (09:23:49) Chapter 39 (09:49:42) Chapter 40 (10:05:48) Chapter 41 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery In the quiet New York town of Sibley, a knot of lawyers and officials linger on the courthouse steps swapping theories about crime when a stranger offers a chilling observation: the boldest offenses are sometimes committed in full view, where no one thinks to look. Minutes later, the woman living in the plain house he indicated, the widowed Mrs. Clemmens, is found struck down in her own parlor, and the town is jolted into suspicion and fear. Young New York detective Horace Byrd takes the lead, sifting testimony, tracing timelines, and weighing the unsettling physical clues left behind, including a ring that seems to point in more than one direction. As whispers tighten around two equally plausible suspects, the enigmatic Imogene Dare steps into the center of the case, her past, her loyalties, and her very presence raising as many questions as they answer. When the famed detective Ebenezer Gryce becomes involved, the investigation turns into a contest between appearances and proof, unfolding through tense interviews, legal maneuvering, and extended courtroom scenes where every word can condemn or save. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:26:45) Chapter 02 (00:49:14) Chapter 03 (01:19:46) Chapter 04 (01:51:03) Chapter 05 (02:20:24) Chapter 06 (02:39:06) Chapter 07 (03:12:34) Chapter 08 (03:33:12) Chapter 09 (04:01:48) Chapter 10 (04:28:15) Chapter 11 (04:38:22) Chapter 12 (04:49:16) Chapter 13 (05:13:22) Chapter 14 (05:31:05) Chapter 15 (05:40:57) Chapter 16 (05:54:38) Chapter 17 (05:55:41) Chapter 18 (06:27:10) Chapter 19 (06:47:49) Chapter 20 (07:10:51) Chapter 21 (07:20:36) Chapter 22 (07:42:33) Chapter 23 (08:02:31) Chapter 24 (08:19:29) Chapter 25 (08:29:46) Chapter 26 (08:41:08) Chapter 27 (08:43:45) Chapter 28 (08:54:54) Chapter 29 (09:13:58) Chapter 30 (09:37:29) Chapter 31 (09:48:48) Chapter 32 (10:08:42) Chapter 33 (10:31:29) Chapter 34 (10:43:47) Chapter 35 (11:15:48) Chapter 36 (11:32:09) Chapter 37 (11:59:48) Chapter 38 (12:26:03) Chapter 39 (12:48:52) Chapter 40 (13:04:53) Chapter 41 (13:23:06) Chapter 42 (13:50:00) Chapter 43 (14:13:50) Chapter 44 (14:33:53) Chapter 45 (14:54:50) Chapter 46 (15:13:37) Chapter 47 (15:35:41) Chapter 48 (15:43:05) Chapter 49 (16:02:59) Chapter 50 (16:29:40) Chapter 51 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doctor Izard by Anna Katharine Green audiobook. Genre: mystery By a mysterious contrivance, penniless and parentless Polly Earle has become an heiress with $20,000. (A respectable little fortune in 1895, when DOCTOR IZARD was published). Raised by kind neighbors in a village in Massachusetts, Polly is now eighteen and a beauty. Her happiness seems assured. But there are ominous questions in the background. What made her father disappear so abruptly when Polly was four years old? Is there a mystery about her mother's death as well? Why does Polly's friend Doctor Izard avoid village society? And who is that sinister old tramp hanging around town, saying nothing and observing everything? For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:32) Chapter 02 (00:31:17) Chapter 03 (00:48:17) Chapter 04 (01:16:41) Chapter 05 (01:39:22) Chapter 06 (01:44:08) Chapter 07 (02:02:28) Chapter 08 (02:15:05) Chapter 09 (02:26:56) Chapter 10 (02:37:02) Chapter 11 (02:44:48) Chapter 12 (02:50:28) Chapter 13 (03:01:00) Chapter 14 (03:22:13) Chapter 15 (03:44:18) Chapter 16 (04:04:34) Chapter 17 (04:15:25) Chapter 18 (04:24:01) Chapter 19 (04:39:43) Chapter 20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber audiobook. Genre: comedy This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef, Medium and the second Personality Plus). Edna Ferber first gained success with these stories and later went on to write Show Boat, Giant and other well known books. First published in 1915, Emma's son, Jock, has moved to Chicago with his new wife. Emma decides to sell in South America and proves she has not lost her magic touch. Emma gets involved in romance, saving a business and many other things. Emma symbolizes the ideal woman at the dawn of the twentieth century: sharp, capable, charming, and progressive. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:50:45) Chapter 2 (01:31:48) Chapter 3 (02:12:52) Chapter 4 (02:52:30) Chapter 5 (03:34:30) Chapter 6 (04:11:36) Chapter 7 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The World With A Thousand Moons by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi Lance Kenniston is a hard-edged asteroid man running out of time. Stranded on Mars without a ship, he and his hulking Jovian partner, Holk Or, gamble everything on a reckless plan: recruit a bored group of wealthy thrill-seekers and hitch a ride aboard their sleek private cruiser. Kenniston offers them the ultimate adventure - a treasure hunt for the legendary loot of space pirate John Dark, rumored to lie entombed in a wreck on Vesta, the so-called World with a Thousand Moons, ringed by swarming meteors. But Vesta is no romantic backdrop. Its steaming jungle hides brutal, alien predators, and something far worse: small parasitic horrors that can turn living bodies into stolen weapons. As fear rises and supplies dwindle, Kenniston must keep his crew moving, keep his story straight, and keep his own motives buried, while suspicion fractures the party from within. Part pulp space opera, part survival nightmare, this fast, vivid tale pits greed and courage against an uncaring frontier where every moonlit shadow can kill. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:18:24) Chapter 02 (00:38:30) Chapter 03 (00:54:36) Chapter 04 (01:12:57) Chapter 05 (01:27:03) Chapter 06 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The City at World’s End by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi A quiet Midwestern town is living an ordinary day when a burst of unimaginable force rips reality apart. In an instant, the familiar streets of Middletown are torn out of their own time and flung to the last age of the cosmos, when the stars are dying and the universe itself is running down. Stranded beyond any hope of rescue, the townspeople must confront a future so remote that human history has become legend. As panic gives way to hard choices, a handful of leaders and skeptics struggle to keep order, protect the vulnerable, and understand what brought them here. Their search for answers draws them toward a mysterious, colossal metropolis: a last refuge built by beings who have outlived civilizations and learned terrible lessons about survival at the edge of eternity. But the city offers no simple salvation. To endure, Middletown must reckon with alien powers, dwindling resources, and the crushing psychological weight of being the last people who remember Earth. Sweeping, eerie, and intensely human, this classic tale turns a small-town cast into witnesses of the universe's final night. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:23:56) Chapter 02 (00:41:20) Chapter 03 (00:55:01) Chapter 04 (01:15:59) Chapter 05 (01:31:50) Chapter 06 (01:47:10) Chapter 07 (02:09:54) Chapter 08 (02:27:11) Chapter 09 (02:47:00) Chapter 10 (03:11:57) Chapter 11 (03:37:13) Chapter 12 (04:05:47) Chapter 13 (04:25:53) Chapter 14 (04:46:27) Chapter 15 (05:06:07) Chapter 16 (05:31:26) Chapter 17 (05:53:38) Chapter 18 (06:16:07) Chapter 19 (06:36:07) Chapter 20 (06:50:31) Chapter 21 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Citadel of the Star Lords by Edmond Hamilton audiobook. Genre: scifi When down-on-his-luck pilot Price blunders into military trouble, a desperate flight takes him straight into the shockwave of an experimental blast. The concussion does not kill him - it hurls him into a future Earth a hundred years beyond his own, where the old world has collapsed and the planet is controlled from a formidable stronghold: the citadel of the Star Lords. To the scattered, struggling humans who remain, the Star Lords are invaders and masters, almost indistinguishable from mankind except for the cold efficiency of their rule. Price keeps his true origin hidden as he is pulled between wary survivors, whispered plans of revolt, and the unsettling possibility that the aliens' occupation may not be the simple tyranny it appears. As he learns the citadel's purpose and the shadow of a larger cosmic conflict closes in, Price must decide what - and who - he can trust, even as forbidden attraction complicates every choice. Edmond Hamilton delivers classic, breathless space opera: time travel, high-stakes intrigue, and a lone man forced to gamble the fate of Earth in a war he barely understands. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:35) Chapter 02 (00:20:40) Chapter 03 (00:39:32) Chapter 04 (00:56:51) Chapter 05 (01:18:00) Chapter 06 (01:35:33) Chapter 07 (01:53:23) Chapter 08 (02:06:23) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi On the dying world of Barsoom, Princess Thuvia of Ptarth is celebrated for her honor and beauty, and desired as much for the power her hand in marriage could confer as for love itself. When she travels to the court of Helium to secure a political alliance, she crosses paths with Carthoris, the proud young warrior son of John Carter. A shadowy conspiracy turns that meeting into scandal: Thuvia is abducted, Carthoris is framed, and the fragile peace between rival city-states threatens to collapse into war. Determined to clear his name and save the woman he cannot forget, Carthoris races after the kidnappers across Mars' harsh deserts, crimson seas, and strange, perilous kingdoms, where every alliance has a price and every victory creates new enemies. As Thuvia fights to protect her own agency amid captivity and courtly schemes, both must navigate treachery, rival suitors, and the brutal politics of a planet where courage is currency. Sweeping, swift, and romantic, this classic planetary tale pits personal honor against empires in motion. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:59) Chapter 02 (00:44:01) Chapter 03 (00:56:11) Chapter 04 (01:17:28) Chapter 05 (01:45:44) Chapter 06 (02:03:33) Chapter 07 (02:24:54) Chapter 08 (02:47:00) Chapter 09 (03:06:12) Chapter 10 (03:27:20) Chapter 11 (03:52:12) Chapter 12 (04:11:20) Chapter 13 (04:35:22) Chapter 14 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: scifi When wealthy young adventurer David Innes agrees to test an experimental digging machine built by brilliant but absent-minded inventor Abner Perry, the trial goes catastrophically off course. The steel mole bores deep beneath the Earth and breaks into a vast inner world called Pellucidar - a sunlit realm with no night, no seasons, and no reliable way to measure time. There, human tribes struggle to survive amid primeval beasts and brutal rival peoples, all living under the shadow of the Mahars, cold-blooded, intelligent overlords who rule through terror, slavery, and their savage minions, the Sagoths. Separated from everything he knows and forced to become a leader before he is ready, Innes is drawn into a fight that is bigger than simple survival. As he searches for allies and for the courageous Dian the Beautiful, Innes must learn Pellucidar's strange laws of geography and memory, navigate shifting loyalties among its scattered nations, and decide what kind of man he will be in a world that answers to strength. Pellucidar is a breathless journey of discovery, romance, and rebellion at the heart of a lost world. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:14:55) Chapter 01 (00:37:29) Chapter 02 (01:00:45) Chapter 03 (01:23:49) Chapter 04 (01:46:53) Chapter 05 (02:10:07) Chapter 06 (02:34:56) Chapter 07 (02:59:00) Chapter 08 (03:18:56) Chapter 09 (03:40:01) Chapter 10 (04:01:27) Chapter 11 (04:23:32) Chapter 12 (04:48:17) Chapter 13 (05:03:44) Chapter 14 (05:29:38) Chapter 15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs audiobook. Genre: adventure In Jungle Tales of Tarzan, Edgar Rice Burroughs returns to the steaming heart of equatorial Africa to reveal early, hard-won chapters in the making of the ape-man. Living as an outsider among the great apes yet driven by a human mind he cannot fully name, Tarzan must learn to survive by tooth, vine, and instinct while also grappling with questions of identity, belonging, and rule. Across a series of episodic adventures, he faces rival beasts, treacherous terrain, and the constant pressure of jungle law, where strength is tested daily and mercy can be fatal. But danger does not come only from claws and fangs: rival tribes, strange customs, and the arrival of unfamiliar humans expose Tarzan to new kinds of conflict - pride, jealousy, and the unsettling pull of a world beyond the trees. Each tale deepens the legend, showing how Tarzan earns his place through courage and cunning, and how the jungle itself shapes his fierce sense of justice. Fast, vivid, and mythic, these stories expand the Tarzan saga with primal action and a growing awareness of what it means to be both man and wild. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:38:12) Chapter 02 (01:11:13) Chapter 03 (01:36:27) Chapter 04 (02:16:39) Chapter 05 (03:15:04) Chapter 06 (04:03:36) Chapter 07 (04:29:25) Chapter 08 (05:01:57) Chapter 09 (05:34:36) Chapter 10 (06:19:25) Chapter 11 (06:58:50) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe audiobook. Genre: mystery In 19th-century Paris, a pair of brutal, seemingly impossible killings shatter the calm of a quiet neighborhood near the Rue Morgue. The crime scene is baffling: the apartment is locked, the violence is extreme, and witnesses disagree on what they heard - except for one chilling detail, a strange voice that no one can clearly identify. Enter C. Auguste Dupin, an eccentric gentleman with an extraordinary talent for analysis, and his close friend and narrator, who is both fascinated and unsettled by Dupin's methods. Drawn into the case by curiosity and a respect for pure reasoning, Dupin reconstructs the crime step by step, testing assumptions, weighing contradictions, and reading the city itself as if it were a text. As the police chase dead ends and public fear grows, Dupin pursues a single goal: to explain how the murders could have occurred at all. Tense, atmospheric, and sharply logical, this pioneering tale of ratiocination explores the limits of perception, the power of intellect, and the thin line between civilized order and sudden horror. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:21) Chapter 02 (01:05:31) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Blindfolded by Earle Ashley Walcott audiobook. Genre: mystery When Giles Dudley receives an urgent summons from his cousin, Henry Wilton, he expects a straightforward errand. Instead, his arrival in San Francisco drops him into a maze of unanswered questions and quiet threats. Henry is missing almost as soon as Giles steps off the train, leaving behind only fragments of a shadowy situation Giles does not understand - and a baffling responsibility: to look after a young boy he has been told to protect, though he has not even met him yet. With no clear instructions and no trustworthy guide, Giles is forced to navigate unfamiliar streets, evasive strangers, and a tangle of motives that seem to shift every time he gets close to the truth. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes that his cousin's affairs are knotted up with secrets someone will do anything to keep buried. Pulled forward by duty, curiosity, and growing alarm, Giles must decide whom to believe and how far he will go to uncover what happened to Henry - all while feeling, as he puts it, like a man acting completely blindfolded. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:15:59) Chapter 02 (00:26:47) Chapter 03 (00:42:17) Chapter 04 (00:53:26) Chapter 05 (01:08:37) Chapter 06 (01:30:47) Chapter 07 (01:52:17) Chapter 08 (02:04:07) Chapter 09 (02:24:07) Chapter 10 (02:39:45) Chapter 11 (03:02:26) Chapter 12 (03:23:37) Chapter 13 (03:46:54) Chapter 14 (04:19:52) Chapter 15 (04:45:13) Chapter 16 (05:09:10) Chapter 17 (05:37:48) Chapter 18 (05:58:37) Chapter 19 (06:19:59) Chapter 20 (06:46:00) Chapter 21 (07:05:04) Chapter 22 (07:28:09) Chapter 23 (07:57:50) Chapter 24 (08:23:08) Chapter 25 (08:50:51) Chapter 26 (09:12:29) Chapter 27 (09:28:18) Chapter 28 (09:53:31) Chapter 29 (10:33:37) Chapter 30 (10:48:46) Chapter 31 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Mystery of the Locks by E. W. Howe audiobook. Genre: mystery Davy's Bend was a dying, lonely, uncared-for river town. So when a stranger showed up one day and bought the old unoccupied house called 'The Locks' one dreary day, the inhabitants of the town were naturally very curious about the stranger, and very curious about his reasons for buying the old house. The Locks had been known for years to display at nighttime a single light showing up in one room, and there was one room in the house which was strictly off-limits to anyone. What was the history behind The Locks that nobody dared to talk about? What was the reason for the stranger's unannounced arrival and purchase of The Locks? Small, dying towns tend to keep their secrets to themselves, and Davy's Bend was no exception. Nor was the stranger's. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:39:55) Chapter 02 (00:57:27) Chapter 03 (01:20:24) Chapter 04 (01:44:18) Chapter 05 (01:59:00) Chapter 06 (02:35:09) Chapter 07 (02:53:32) Chapter 08 (03:27:33) Chapter 09 (03:55:33) Chapter 10 (04:11:25) Chapter 11 (04:45:46) Chapter 12 (05:13:58) Chapter 13 (05:48:59) Chapter 14 (06:14:45) Chapter 15 (06:47:45) Chapter 16 (07:23:45) Chapter 17 (07:50:50) Chapter 18 (08:18:50) Chapter 19 (08:42:54) Chapter 20 (09:05:37) Chapter 21 (09:31:45) Chapter 22 (10:03:41) Chapter 23 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle audiobook. Genre: scifi On a quiet afternoon in the English village of Great Wymering, a cricket match is interrupted by the sudden appearance of a stranger who moves in jerks, speaks in odd staccato bursts, and seems to hum with hidden machinery. The players laugh at him at first - until his uncanny speed and strength turn the farce into something harder to explain. Local doctor Allingham wants a sensible answer (escaped lunatic, hoax, anything but the impossible), while the more imaginative Captain Gregg suspects the truth: the newcomer is part man, part mechanism, and profoundly out of place in time. Bank clerk Arthur Withers, gentler and more curious than the others, becomes the Clockwork Man's confidant, drawn in as the stranger reveals a device embedded in his skull - a clock that lets him perceive dimensions beyond ordinary reality, and that has malfunctioned, stranding him thousands of years from home. As Allingham and the villagers grapple with whether they can help him, two courtships unfold (Allingham with the sharp-minded Lillian Payne, Arthur with Rose Lomas), and the Clockwork Man's disturbing account of the future forces everyone to confront technology, gender, violence, and the true cost of a perfectly regulated life. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:17) Chapter 02 (00:54:27) Chapter 03 (01:25:07) Chapter 04 (01:53:30) Chapter 05 (02:22:40) Chapter 06 (02:58:20) Chapter 07 (03:24:30) Chapter 08 (03:48:22) Chapter 09 (04:21:18) Chapter 10 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. Oe. Somerville audiobook. Genre: comedy Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. follows the misadventures of Major Sinclair Yeates, an English ex-army officer who arrives in rural west Ireland to take up a post as a Resident Magistrate - a job that sounds orderly on paper but quickly becomes anything but. Thrown into a world of lively market towns, sprawling estates, and tight-knit communities where everyone seems to know everyone else (and where rules bend under the weight of custom), Yeates must learn how to dispense justice without becoming the butt of the joke. Along the way he is assisted, misled, and occasionally rescued by the formidable local police sergeant, the endlessly resourceful servants and neighbors, and a parade of eccentric characters whose schemes, feuds, and tall tales collide with official procedure. Told in crisp, comic episodes, the book delights in culture clash, social satire, and the gap between legal authority and real authority, while also revealing an affectionate eye for the landscape and the people who animate it. The central tension is Yeates's effort to keep his dignity and do his duty as each case turns into a riotous lesson in how Ireland works. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:39:22) Chapter 2 (01:12:00) Chapter 3 (01:42:52) Chapter 4 (02:16:45) Chapter 5 (02:53:16) Chapter 6 (03:31:17) Chapter 7 (04:08:54) Chapter 8 (04:48:11) Chapter 9 (05:21:30) Chapter 10 (05:59:17) Chapter 11 (06:34:43) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wet Magic by E. Nesbit audiobook. Genre: fantasy A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these delightful children from their earlier adventures with magic, Bernard, Mavis, Kathleen, and Francis. Just normal children who believe in the fun of imagining and of magic. In this story Francis, who has always loved the idea of the sea but has never actually seen it, is very excited about going to the seashore for holiday. He finds an old aquarium and the others help him lug it home only to have their hopes dashed by Aunt Enid who was in charge temporarily. But then the magic starts when he unwittingly recites a magic charm. At the seashore the children execute a daring rescue of a supposed mermaid who 'die in captivity' and oh, lots and lots more. Enjoy these adventurous children and their wet magic in the sea. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:24:44) Chapter 2 (00:58:08) Chapter 3 (01:41:28) Chapter 4 (01:56:05) Chapter 5 (02:10:22) Chapter 6 (02:38:24) Chapter 7 (03:14:55) Chapter 8 (03:42:01) Chapter 9 (04:18:32) Chapter 10 (04:52:24) Chapter 11 (05:22:04) Chapter 12 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: scifi The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical' and are threatened with 'Homelessness'. Eventually, the Machine apocalyptically collapses, and the civilization of the Machine comes to an end. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:32:39) Chapter 02 (01:02:24) Chapter 03 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Howards End by E. M. Forster audiobook. Genre: drama In Edwardian England, a chance meeting at a concert draws together two very different families: the idealistic, intellectually restless Schlegel sisters and the wealthy, practical Wilcox clan. When Helen Schlegel strikes up a friendship with the Wilcoxes, misunderstandings quickly spiral into a tangle of letters, visits, and bruised pride. Her sister Margaret tries to make sense of the Wilcoxes' confident certainties while holding fast to her own belief in conversation, culture, and human connection. At the center of their shifting alliances stands Howards End, a country house that becomes far more than a piece of property: it is a symbol of memory, inheritance, and what it means to belong. As class pressures tighten and private choices collide with public expectations, the Schlegels must decide how much compromise their ideals can bear. With wit and quiet intensity, E. M. Forster explores the fault lines of money and morality, the costs of social respectability, and the longing to live by the creed that matters most: only connect. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:08:27) Chapter 02 (00:23:17) Chapter 03 (00:44:29) Chapter 04 (01:03:47) Chapter 05 (01:34:48) Chapter 06 (01:57:50) Chapter 07 (02:16:03) Chapter 08 (02:37:22) Chapter 09 (02:50:18) Chapter 10 (03:09:54) Chapter 11 (03:40:11) Chapter 12 (03:54:00) Chapter 13 (04:11:31) Chapter 14 (04:34:26) Chapter 15 (04:59:40) Chapter 16 (05:23:54) Chapter 17 (05:39:24) Chapter 18 (05:59:57) Chapter 19 (06:20:48) Chapter 20 (06:37:23) Chapter 21 (06:40:48) Chapter 22 (06:57:24) Chapter 23 (07:16:16) Chapter 24 (07:26:22) Chapter 25 (07:47:27) Chapter 26 (08:18:37) Chapter 27 (08:32:30) Chapter 28 (08:40:45) Chapter 29 (08:54:06) Chapter 30 (09:08:12) Chapter 31 (09:20:15) Chapter 32 (09:28:21) Chapter 33 (09:46:32) Chapter 34 (10:07:42) Chapter 35 (10:16:15) Chapter 36 (10:22:04) Chapter 37 (10:43:30) Chapter 38 (10:56:49) Chapter 39 (11:01:50) Chapter 40 (11:11:47) Chapter 41 (11:32:46) Chapter 42 (11:41:46) Chapter 43 (11:53:31) Chapter 44 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Triplanetary - First in the Lensman series by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the protaganists in the Lensmen series. He added 6 new chapters, doubling it in size and it's really a different book from the serialized novel, being published 14 years after the first. It was put into Gutenberg just last year. The novel covers several episodes in an eons-long eugenics project of the super-intelligences of the Arisia. This alien race is breeding two genetic lines to become the ultimate weapon in Arisia's cosmic war with their arch enemy, the Eddore. The initial chapters cover the Kinnison genetic line during the fall of Atlantis and Nero's (Gharlane of Eddore) reign in Rome. These tales were inserted into the novel following the serialized release, along with chapters covering members of the Kinnison line in World Wars One, Two and Three. The final chapter of Triplanetary tells of the discovery of the inertialess drive that allows faster than light travel. Patrolman Conway Costigan and his friends engage in a space battle with Gray Roger the pirate gangster. This conflict is complicated by the arrival of the technologically superior, extra-Solar, amphibian-like Nevians, resulting in the first interstellar war involving humans. In this story Virgil Samms and Roderick Kinnison, two very important members of the eugenics project, are introduced. They will play the leading roles in the next story, First Lensman. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:22:09) Chapter 02 (01:12:02) Chapter 03 (01:48:55) Chapter 04 (02:17:27) Chapter 05 (03:04:39) Chapter 06 (03:32:09) Chapter 07 (04:13:26) Chapter 08 (04:51:38) Chapter 09 (05:18:01) Chapter 10 (06:02:44) Chapter 11 (06:43:21) Chapter 12 (06:59:15) Chapter 13 (07:26:29) Chapter 14 (07:50:50) Chapter 15 (08:00:51) Chapter 16 (08:33:15) Chapter 17 (09:19:34) Chapter 18 (09:58:02) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Vortex Blaster by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi In E. E. 'Doc' Smith's classic space opera, brilliant nuclear engineer Neal 'Storm' Cloud lives in the shadow of failure: he flunked the Lensman exam, missing his chance to join Civilization's most celebrated defenders. But when lethal, self-sustaining atomic vortices begin to appear - churning knots of star-like energy that grow as they consume anything they touch - Cloud's rare gift for lightning-fast calculation becomes humanity's best hope. After a personal catastrophe turns research into obsession, he devises a way to strike a vortex at the exact instant and location needed to snuff it out rather than shatter it into even deadlier fragments. Suddenly Cloud is the one specialist the Galactic Patrol cannot replace, dispatched from world to world in a small ship, extinguishing cosmic firestorms while navigating smugglers, gangsters, and volatile planetary politics. As the Patrol pushes him to scale his work and uncover the true nature of the vortices, Cloud is drawn into an intense collaboration with computer expert Joan Janowick, where science, risk, and rebuilding a shattered life collide. Fast, inventive, and emotionally charged, The Vortex Blaster pits raw intellect and courage against disasters no weapon can simply shoot down. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 1 (00:14:51) Chapter 2 (00:28:14) Chapter 3 (00:43:48) Chapter 4 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Skylark of Space by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi The novel begins with the accidental discovery, in a Government laboratory in Washington D. C., of a form of clean nuclear power. Our hero, Dr. Richard Seaton, uses this power to build first a flying belt and then an interstellar spaceship. He later discovers that the process operates by generation and manipulation of gravity fields. When his government coworkers do not believe him, Seaton acquires rights to his discovery from the government and commercializes it with the aid of his friend, millionaire inventor Martin Crane. A former colleague, Dr. Marc DuQuesne, joins with the unscrupulous World Steel Corporation to try to steal Seaton's invention. The resulting conflict escalates, as Seaton and Duquesne develop greater and greater technical capabilities and enlist more and more powerful alien races as allies.. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:06:24) Chapter 02 (00:28:37) Chapter 03 (01:01:26) Chapter 04 (01:28:58) Chapter 05 (01:54:06) Chapter 06 (02:22:44) Chapter 07 (02:52:02) Chapter 08 (03:09:45) Chapter 09 (03:52:02) Chapter 10 (04:20:52) Chapter 11 (05:04:51) Chapter 12 (05:27:27) Chapter 13 (06:02:15) Chapter 14 (06:34:05) Chapter 15 (07:10:32) Chapter 16 (07:50:45) Chapter 17 (08:19:14) Chapter 18 (08:48:01) Chapter 19 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Galaxy Primes by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi Earth's first instant-travel starship, the Pleiades, is a triumph of engineering and a terrifying gamble: it can wink out to anywhere in the universe, but no one can predict where it will reappear or how to retrace the jump. Aboard are four extraordinary humans - two men and two women - each a Psionic Prime with mind-powers beyond anything Earth has ever seen. When the Pleiades is hurled billions of parsecs from home, their brilliance becomes the only lifeline between survival and oblivion. As they probe alien physics, map unimaginable distances, and test the limits of telepathy and mental combat, the crew must also confront one another: clashing egos, raw attraction, simmering resentment, and the dangerous question of who should lead when every decision could strand them forever. Their search for a route back to Earth becomes a sweeping odyssey through strange regions of space, where unfamiliar intelligences and hostile environments demand equal measures of courage, discipline, and ingenuity. Propulsive and larger-than-life, The Galaxy Primes blends classic pulp adventure with high-concept speculation about power, control, and what it costs to remain human at the edge of the cosmos. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (01:01:53) Chapter 02 (01:40:42) Chapter 03 (02:27:54) Chapter 04 (03:11:34) Chapter 05 (04:08:34) Chapter 06 (05:01:35) Chapter 07 (05:57:17) Chapter 08 (06:45:57) Chapter 09 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tedric by E. E. Smith audiobook. Genre: scifi This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel human sacrifices demanded by the 'god' Sarpedion and is set on destroying him. To do this he needs some secrets of metallurgy that future social scientists are willing to give him. He manages to overcome all obstacles until of course he meets the dazzlingly lovely Lady Rhoaan who stops him cold. A great story written by the incomparable E. E. 'Doc' Smith, author of the Lensman series. And there is a great sequel to this story which will be added to the catalog. It is called Lord Tedric. For ad-free listening try our premium subscription Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:27:36) Chapter 02 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices