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The Four Stragglers

Gelesen von Lee Smalley

(4,5 Sterne; 18 Bewertungen)

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

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Book I SHADOW VARNE Chapter I Three Years Later

23:37

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Book I Chapter 2 An Iron in The Fire

21:42

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Book I Chapter 3 Three of Them

15:34

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Book I Chapter 4 Gold Plate

27:57

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Book I Chapter 5 "Dear Guardy"

19:29

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Book I Chapter 6 The Writing on the Wall

33:14

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Book II The ISLE OF PREY Chapter 1 The Spell of the Moonbeams

18:48

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Book II Chapter 2 The Voice in the Night

40:53

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Book II Chapter 3 The Mad Millionaire

28:21

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Book II Chapter 4 The Unknown

34:48

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Book II Chapter 5 The Gutter-Snipe

11:44

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Book II Chapter 6 The Man in the Mask

26:40

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Book II Chapter 7 The Fight

27:36

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Book II Chapter 8 The Message

23:15

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Book III THE PENALTY Chapter 1 The White Shirt Sleeve

24:02

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Book III Chapter 2 The Bronze Key

36:06

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Book III Chapter 3 The Warp and the Woof

38:57

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Book III Chapter 4 The Time-Lock of the Sea

31:16

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Bewertungen

good story

(5 Sterne)

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