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The Four-Pools Mystery

First published: 1908
Pages: 186

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Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014) · 7 h 3 min · 24 parts

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01 - Introducing Terry Patten
14:52
02 - I Arrive At Four-Pools Plantation
15:55
03 - I Make The Acquaintance Of The Hant
17:32
04 - The Hant Grows Mysterious
25:50
05 - Cat-Eye Mose Creates A Sensation
23:59
06 - We Send For A Detective
20:22
07 - We Send Him Back
19:47
08 - The Robbery Remains A Mystery
13:52
09 - The Expedition To Luray
20:54
10 - The Tragedy Of The Cave
10:22
11 - The Sheriff Visits Four-Pools
10:27
12 - I Make A Promise To Polly
22:37
13 - The Inquest
21:37
14 - The Jurys Verdict
11:48
15 - False Clues
12:41
16 - Terry Comes
19:06
17 - We Search The Abandoned Cabins
30:48
18 - Terry Arrives At A Conclusion
18:01
19 - Terry Finds The Bonds
10:36
20 - Polly Makes A Confession
16:11
21 - Mr. Terence Kirkwood Patten Of New York
13:55
22 - The Discovery Of Cat-Wye Mose
21:40
23 - Mose Tells His Story
19:36
24 - Polly Makes A Proposal
10:43

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Jean Webster, better known for Daddy-Long-Legs, turned to detective fiction in this 1908 novel set on a prosperous horse-breeding plantation in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Arnold Crosby, a young New York lawyer, narrates his visit to Four-Pools, where his hot-tempered great-uncle, Colonel Gaylord, quarrels constantly with Radnor, the son who runs the farm and stands to inherit it. Servants blame a ghost for a run of thefts, from stolen chickens to bonds taken from the Colonel's safe, and when the old man is found dead, suspicion settles on Radnor. Crosby's newspaper friend, the reporter Terry Patten, arrives with a sharper theory, and the search leads toward the limestone cave that feeds the estate's pools. The puzzle draws on Southern local color, family grievance, and the unsettled aftermath of slavery and the Civil War.