The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

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12/14/22

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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.

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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

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The Thief by Anna Katharine Green ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

December 14, 2022

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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.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:25:35) Chapter 02

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A House to Let by Charles Dickens ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

December 14, 2022

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259m

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

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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

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