About the book
A poet recruited to investigate anarchists enters a surreal conspiracy in which almost everyone seems to conceal another identity.
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
- Dedication (poem): To Edmund Clerihew Bentley · 4 minutes
- THE TWO POETS OF SAFFRON PARK · 22 minutes
- THE SECRET OF GABRIEL SYME · 17 minutes
- THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY · 24 minutes
- THE TALE OF A DETECTIVE · 21 minutes
- THE FEAST OF FEAR · 20 minutes
- THE EXPOSURE · 18 minutes
- THE UNACCOUNTABLE CONDUCT OF PROFESSOR DE WORMS · 19 minutes
- THE PROFESSOR EXPLAINS · 27 minutes
- THE MAN IN SPECTACLES · 34 minutes
- THE DUEL · 34 minutes
- THE CRIMINALS CHASE THE POLICE · 18 minutes
- THE EARTH IN ANARCHY · 31 minutes
- THE PURSUIT OF THE PRESIDENT · 21 minutes
- THE SIX PHILOSOPHERS · 24 minutes
- THE ACCUSER · 19 minutes