Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

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07/26/22

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223m

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Four Max Carrados Detective Stories by Ernest Bramah audiobook.

Genre: mystery

In Four Max Carrados Detective Stories, Ernest Bramah introduces a sleuth unlike any other in Edwardian England: Max Carrados, a gentleman investigator who is blind, yet uncannily alert to the details most people overlook. Narrated by his friend and occasional collaborator Louis Carlyle, these four cases open doors into London drawing rooms, private clubs, and shadowy back streets, where a missing object, an ingenious fraud, or a seemingly simple crime quickly reveals deeper layers of motive and method. Carrados does not rely on sight, but on a disciplined command of sound, touch, timing, and human behavior, turning social assumptions about disability into a quiet advantage. As Carlyle struggles to keep pace, the reader is invited to watch ordinary clues become extraordinary through Carrados' calm reasoning and understated wit. Each story blends clever puzzles with character-driven tension, exploring how appearances mislead, how greed and pride unravel, and how true detection depends on noticing what others dismiss. Elegant, sharp, and quietly suspenseful, this collection showcases Bramah's distinctive voice and one of classic detective fiction's most memorable minds.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:34:14) Chapter 2

(01:34:17) Chapter 3

(02:24:01) Chapter 4

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Dere Mable by Edward Streeter ~ Full Audiobook [comedy]

July 26, 2022

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Dere Mable by Edward Streeter audiobook.

Genre: comedy

In Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie, Edward Streeter turns World War I army life into a bright, side-splitting chain of letters from a brand-new private, Bill Smith, to his sweetheart back home, Mable. Writing in proudly mangled spelling and plainspoken slang, Bill reports on everything the Army throws at him: baffling rules, hard-nosed sergeants, endless drills, awkward inspections, lousy weather, and the strange new language of camp where everyday things suddenly have different names. Between complaints and boasts, he sketches a whole barracks full of characters and captures the uneasy mix of boredom, confusion, and sudden responsibility that comes with becoming a soldier. But the letters are not only jokes about military red tape. They are also a running portrait of a young man trying to hold onto home, pride, and romance while distance and rumor test what he thinks he knows about Mable and about himself. With lively illustrations (in many editions) and quick episodes that build like a serialized comedy, Streeter delivers a classic wartime satire that still feels human and sharp.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 1

(00:09:16) Chapter 2

(00:18:38) Chapter 3

(00:28:41) Chapter 4

(00:41:05) Chapter 5

(00:54:29) Chapter 6

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This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald ~ Full Audiobook [drama]

July 26, 2022

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550m

This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald audiobook.

Genre: drama

F. Scott Fitzgerald's debut novel follows Amory Blaine, a sharp, restless Midwesterner who grows up believing his life will be extraordinary. From a privileged childhood through elite schools and the glittering social world of the early 20th century, Amory chases admiration, romance, and a sense of identity that always seems just out of reach. As he moves among ambitious classmates, magnetic friends, and women who challenge and attract him, his confidence is tested by shifting loyalties, money troubles, and the moral confusion of a generation coming of age in the shadow of war. Told with a mix of traditional storytelling and experimental touches, the book captures the excitement and emptiness of status, the ache of first love, and the slow realization that talent and charm do not guarantee purpose. Amory's central struggle is to decide what kind of man he will become when the promises he inherited begin to collapse, and when the world around him no longer rewards certainty. This Side of Paradise is a portrait of youth, ambition, and disillusionment at the dawn of the Jazz Age.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:29:05) Chapter 02

(00:53:47) Chapter 03

(01:12:55) Chapter 04

(01:42:48) Chapter 05

(02:17:32) Chapter 06

(02:56:17) Chapter 07

(03:12:13) Chapter 08

(03:33:42) Chapter 09

(03:55:13) Chapter 10