About the book
Amelia Butterworth investigates a mysterious disappearance and the secrets of a troubled household.
LibriVox recording; public domain in the United States.
Recorded by LibriVox volunteers. Audio hosted by the Internet Archive. Original recording and credits.
Listen chapter by chapter
- A visit from Mr. Gryce · 7 minutes
- I am tempted · 24 minutes
- I succumb · 24 minutes
- A ghostly interior · 11 minutes
- A strange household · 13 minutes
- A sombre evening · 8 minutes
- The first night · 13 minutes
- On the stairs · 7 minutes
- A new acquaintance · 16 minutes
- Secret instructions · 11 minutes
- Men, women, and ghosts · 21 minutes
- The phantom coach · 18 minutes
- Gossip · 10 minutes
- I forget my age, or, rather, remember it · 21 minutes
- Lucetta fulfils my expectation of her · 10 minutes
- Loreen · 16 minutes
- The flower parlor · 20 minutes
- The second night · 23 minutes
- A knot of crape · 12 minutes
- Questions · 8 minutes
- Mother Jane · 12 minutes
- The third night · 20 minutes
- Room 3, Hotel Carter · 19 minutes
- The enigma of numbers · 20 minutes
- Trifles, but not trifling · 8 minutes
- A point gained · 12 minutes
- The text witnesseth · 6 minutes
- An intrusion · 8 minutes
- In the cellar · 9 minutes
- Investigation · 7 minutes
- Strategy · 19 minutes
- Relief · 7 minutes
- Lucetta · 35 minutes
- Conditions · 4 minutes
- The dove · 12 minutes
- An hour of startling experiences · 39 minutes
- I astonish Mr. Gryce and he astonishes me · 8 minutes
- A few words · 5 minutes
- Under a crimson sky · 25 minutes
- Explanations · 16 minutes
- Epilogue · 42 minutes