The Secret of the Night
Gaston Leroux
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Gaston Leroux, perhaps best known as the author of The Phantom of the Opera in its novel form, was also the author of a popular series of mystery novels featuring a young journalist cum detective named Joseph Rouletabille. It is most likely that Leroux styled his hero after himself. Rouletabille was in the tradition of other great detectives who solved their cases by pure deductive reasoning. Much as Sherlock Holmes, who eliminated the impossible and concluded that whatever remained, however improbable must be the truth, Rouletabille included the known facts about the case and eliminated everything that was not a known fact, no matter how much it appeared to relate to the case. In The Secret of the Night, the names of the characters are often challengingly Russian and the plot involves, appropriately, both the Czar and the Nihilists. Introduction by Don W. Jenkins) (9 hr 7 min)
Chapters
Gayety and Dynamite | 24:37 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Natacha | 36:59 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Watch | 23:10 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
"The Youth of Moscow Is Dead" | 19:58 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
By Roulabille's Order The General Promenades | 47:45 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Mysterious Hand | 28:54 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Arsenate of Soda | 36:47 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Little Chapel of the Guards | 24:48 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Annouchka | 58:47 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
A Drama in the Night | 42:54 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Poison Continues | 23:18 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Pere Alexis | 20:10 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Living Bombs | 38:33 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Marshes | 29:59 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
"I Have Been Waiting for You" | 18:12 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Before the Revolutionary Tribunal | 12:42 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Last Cravat | 13:26 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
A Singular Experience | 6:52 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
The Tsar | 39:43 | Read by Don W. Jenkins |
Reviews
The Secret of the Night
eli g
Interesting mystery story, four stars. As usual, this reader enlivens and keeps the interest going all the way through (and he can sing too !). Five stars for him. Thank you. : )
A LibriVox Listener
Somewhat confusing to follow at times but worth sticking it through (except for not knowing what those marsh monsters really were...). Interesting bio on the author on Wikipedia.
Mixed
dorcas70
The first half of the book was enjoyable but I found the second half hard to follow and I was easily distracted.
long, interesting read
Cindy Barnett
Convoluted plot. Well worth the time to read. Evenly paced narration performed by Don W. Jenkins. Recommended.
Louis Hungerford
Another fine reading by Mr. Jenkins.