The Four Stragglers


Read by Lee Smalley

(4.5 stars; 18 reviews)

This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind German lines. One of them shoots at another in the darkness. Members of a criminal gang before the war, the men resume their unlawful activities when peacetime returns. The gang’s leader receives a letter that results in his leaving London for a small island off the Florida Keys. He is “as clever a scoundrel and as miserable, inhuman and unscrupulous a one as ever blasphemed the image in which God made him… He is without conscience, ruthless, a fiend who would do honour to hell itself."
Frank L. Packard authored many popular novels, several of which were made into movies, including a series in which he originated the idea of a heroic crime fighter with a secret double identity. --Lee Smalley (8 hr 17 min)

Chapters

Prologue: The Four of Them 13:25 Read by Lee Smalley
Book I SHADOW VARNE Chapter I Three Years Later 23:37 Read by Lee Smalley
Book I Chapter 2 An Iron in The Fire 21:42 Read by Lee Smalley
Book I Chapter 3 Three of Them 15:34 Read by Lee Smalley
Book I Chapter 4 Gold Plate 27:57 Read by Lee Smalley
Book I Chapter 5 "Dear Guardy" 19:29 Read by Lee Smalley
Book I Chapter 6 The Writing on the Wall 33:14 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II The ISLE OF PREY Chapter 1 The Spell of the Moonbeams 18:48 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 2 The Voice in the Night 40:53 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 3 The Mad Millionaire 28:21 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 4 The Unknown 34:48 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 5 The Gutter-Snipe 11:44 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 6 The Man in the Mask 26:40 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 7 The Fight 27:36 Read by Lee Smalley
Book II Chapter 8 The Message 23:15 Read by Lee Smalley
Book III THE PENALTY Chapter 1 The White Shirt Sleeve 24:02 Read by Lee Smalley
Book III Chapter 2 The Bronze Key 36:06 Read by Lee Smalley
Book III Chapter 3 The Warp and the Woof 38:57 Read by Lee Smalley
Book III Chapter 4 The Time-Lock of the Sea 31:16 Read by Lee Smalley

Reviews

good story


(5 stars)

very dialogue heavy at the intro but it opens up eventually to a more balanced writing style. reader is very good.