The Green Rust (Version 2)
Edgar Wallace
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three books he published in 1919. It begins at the English home of the severely ill American millionaire, John Millinborn. With him are his best friend, Kitson, and a local doctor, the Dutch (or is he?) van Heerden. He is murdered in the first chapter, having just left his fortune to his niece, Oliva, whom he has never met. Before he dies, he asks Kitson to find and watch over Oliva. (Introduction by Kirsten Wever) (9 hr 49 min)
Chapters
The Death of John Millinborn | 16:29 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Drunken Mr. Beale | 23:31 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Punsonby's Discharge an Employee | 24:43 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Letters That Were Not There | 19:14 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Man With the Big Head | 18:57 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Mr. Scobbs of Red Horse Valley | 19:47 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Plain Words From Mr. Beale | 20:20 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Crime of the Grand Alliance | 18:10 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Crime Against the World | 24:57 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Fruitless Search | 19:15 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The House near Staines | 21:00 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Introducing Parson Homo | 17:53 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
At Deans Folly | 18:26 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Mr. Beale Suggests Marriage | 16:40 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Good Herr Stardt | 18:27 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Pawn Ticket | 17:36 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Jew of Cracow | 22:29 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Bridgers Breaks Loose | 19:13 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Oliva is Willing | 17:13 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Marriage | 13:17 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Beale Sees White | 19:09 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Hilda Glaum Leads The Way | 16:29 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
At the Doctor's Flat | 16:10 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Green Rust Factory | 14:36 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Last Man at the Bench | 13:57 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Secret of the Green Rust | 18:40 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Scheme to Starve the World | 16:00 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Coming of Dr. Milsom | 18:20 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Lost Code | 16:03 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The Watch | 15:26 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
A Cornchandler's Bill | 8:58 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
The End of Van Heerden | 28:56 | Read by Kirsten Wever |
Reviews
Good story and good reader
Robin Wright
The story takes place in post WWI London, England, so for the most part, people from Germany are the bad guys. Thank you for putting on Librivox.
fantastic story!
Ameyer99
this is a great mystery / Adventure / story! I have come to enjoy the narrator she does have a bit of a monotone-ish cadence but once you get used to it it disappears and she is very good!
EAT YOUR HEART OUT IAN FLEMING!
Clearspace
Global take over planned. Control over the world's wheat markets. Biological warfare. All to restore German wealth after the Treaty of Versailles. A story of revenge. 1920s. Romance woven throughout.
i gave up on version one, the narrator for that was all wrong.
Jessie
the story I so enjoyed especially with Kirsten Wever reading, a big thank you!
KAB
Love this story. I hardly ever listen more than once but this one I have. Kinda cheesy, a bit melodramatic, but still very good.
The Green Rust (Version 2)
David R. Smith
Story is a good listen and is very well read - Thanks!
JL
Great old story by a favourite author of my father. Well read by Kirstin.
This just has to be my all time favorite story! Brilliant!
Gill