The Dark Road: Further Adventures of Chéri-Bibi


Read by Adrian Wilson

(3.8 stars; 19 reviews)

One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux's criminal mastermind Chéri-Bibi. When the story starts the "astonishing bandit", Chéri-Bibi, is languishing in a penal colony, somewhere in the darkest regions of the French empire. In the colony he has befriended a more noble type of prisoner, Raoul de Saint-Dalmas, known colloquially as the Nut. The dastardly forces of the Parisian, the Burglar, the Joker and the Caid get their enjoyment from interfering in our heroes' lives. Then there are the Chief and his warders, Pernambouc the Executioner and his assistant Monsieur Desiré, for Chéri-Bibi and the Nut, to contend with. An incredible adventure begins from here. The author, Gaston Leroux, (born in Paris in 1868, died in Nice in 1927) wrote many, many other stories the chief of which, has spawned so many celebrated performances on Broadway and in London's West End, as The Phantom of the Opera. (Summary by afinevoice) (6 hr 50 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1, The Nut 10:20 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 2, Chéri-Bibi 15:35 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 3, The Shadow of the Past 17:12 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 4, In the Night 23:52 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 5, How Chéri-Bibi died 26:00 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 6, Pernambouc, the Prison Executioner 17:12 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 7, The Mysteries of the Primeval Forest 28:41 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 8, The Gold-Seekers 27:55 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 9,Chéri-Bibi and the Nut Say Goodbye 7:13 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter I0, Four Years Later 8:50 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 11, Count de Gorbio 19:21 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter I2, An Urgent Message 13:04 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 13, Hilaire 22:10 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 14, The Judgment of God 28:10 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 15, The Honeymoon 25:47 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 16,Chéri-Bibi's Simple Programme 14:32 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 17, M. De Saynthine 3:55 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 18, The Nut on the Rack 16:31 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 19, A Bad Night Followed by Bad Days 14:30 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 20, A Sight of the Abyss 12:16 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 21, The Sequel to M. Hilaire's Holiday 14:08 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 22, Monsieur Toulouse's Shop 25:34 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 23, Hero and Outlaw 10:35 Read by Adrian Wilson
Chapter 24, A Guardian Angel 7:28 Read by Adrian Wilson

Reviews

High quality reading


(5 stars)

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(2 stars)

it was definitely a fine voice,,,,,