Beetle
Richard Marsh
Play
Length 11 h 56 min
Chapters 48
First published 1897
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker's Dracula, George du Maurier's Trilby, and Sax Rohmer's Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters, a technique used in many late nineteenth-century novels (those of Wilkie Collins and Stoker, for example) to create suspense.
Richard Marsh was the pseudonym of the British author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Chapters
1
01 - Outside Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 14:20
2
02 - Inside Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 17:25
3
03 - The Man in the Bed Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 12:40
4
04 - A Lonely Vigil Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 14:26
5
05 - An Instruction to Commit Murder Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 22:36
6
06 - A Singular Felony Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 19:28
7
07 - The Great Paul Lessingham Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 19:22
8
08 - The Man in the Street Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 5:11
9
09 - The Contents of the Packet Read by icyjumbo (1964-2010) 12:03
10
10 - Rejected Read by Alan Winterrowd 12:39
11
11 - A Midnight Episode Read by Alan Winterrowd 14:06
12
12 - A Morning Visitor Read by Alan Winterrowd 11:36
13
13 - The Picture Read by Alan Winterrowd 25:22
14
14 - The Duchess' Ball Read by Alan Winterrowd 18:40
15
15 - Mr Lessingham Speaks Read by Alan Winterrowd 15:09
16
16 - Atherton's Magic Vapour Read by Alan Winterrowd 18:49
17
17 - Magic?--Or Miracle? Read by Alan Winterrowd 5:23
18
18 - The Apotheosis of the Beetle Read by Alan Winterrowd 34:33
19
19 - The Lady Rages Read by Alan Winterrowd 10:25
20
20 - A Heavy Father Read by Alan Winterrowd 10:34
21
21 - The Terror in the Night Read by Alan Winterrowd 26:24
22
22 - The Haunted Man Read by Alan Winterrowd 27:58
23
23 - The Way He Told Her Read by Ruth Golding 14:40
24
24 - A Woman's View Read by Ruth Golding 9:30
25
25 - The Man in the Street Read by Ruth Golding 11:17
26
26 - A Father's No Read by Ruth Golding 9:16
27
27 - The Terror by Night Read by Ruth Golding 18:03
28
28 - The Strange Story of the Man in the Street Read by Ruth Golding 27:43
29
29 - The House on the Road From the Workhouse Read by Ruth Golding 30:15
30
30 - The Singular Behavior of Mr Holt Read by Ruth Golding 6:03
31
31 - The Terror by Day Read by Ruth Golding 12:25
32
32 - A New Client Read by Anthony Wilson 6:23
33
33 - What Came From Looking Through a Lattice Read by Anthony Wilson 21:18
34
34 - After Twenty Years Read by Anthony Wilson 16:29
35
35 - A Bringer of Tidings Read by Anthony Wilson 5:04
36
36 - What the Tidings Were Read by Anthony Wilson 9:47
37
37 - What Was Hidden Under the Floor Read by Anthony Wilson 12:52
38
38 - The Rest of the Find Read by Anthony Wilson 9:03
39
39 - Miss Louisa Coleman Read by Anthony Wilson 19:35
40
40 - What Miss Coleman Saw Through the Window Read by Anthony Wilson 11:02
41
41 - The Constable,--His Clue,--And the Cab Read by Anthony Wilson 14:57
42
42 - The Quarry Doubles Read by Anthony Wilson 10:38
43
43 - The Murder at Mrs. 'Enderson's Read by Anthony Wilson 22:22
44
44 - The Man Who Was Murdered Read by Anthony Wilson 12:52
45
45 - All That Mrs. 'Enderson Knew Read by Anthony Wilson 6:40
46
46 - The Sudden Stopping Read by Anthony Wilson 15:24
47
47 - The Contents of the Third-Class Carriage Read by Anthony Wilson 5:22
48
48 - The Conclusion of the Matter Read by Anthony Wilson 7:45
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