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The Opal Serpent

by Fergus Hume

First published
1905
Pages
275
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Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) · 9 h 44 min · 26 parts

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  1. Don Quixote in London

    24:12

  2. Deborah Junk, Duenna

    25:58

  3. Dulcinea of Gwynne Street

    23:42

  4. The Unforseen

    22:52

  5. Trouble

    23:07

  6. A Noise in the Street

    23:22

  7. A Terrible Night

    20:42

  8. The Verdict of the Jury

    22:01

  9. Castles in the Air

    21:44

  10. A Bolt from the Blue

    20:58

  11. A Cuckoo in the Nest

    20:46

  12. The New Life

    21:17

  13. The Detective's Views

    24:53

  14. Mr. Hay's Little Dinner

    20:55

  15. A New Clue

    22:54

  16. Sylvia's Theory

    20:08

  17. Hurd's Information

    21:35

  18. At Christchurch, Hants

    20:15

  19. Captain Jessop

    16:36

  20. Part of the Truth

    23:42

  21. Miss Qian's Party

    23:21

  22. Further Evidence

    22:30

  23. What Pash Said

    21:52

  24. Mrs. Krill at Bay

    24:31

  25. A Cruel Woman

    30:54

  26. A Final Explanation

    20:09

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About this book

Fergus Hume built this Edwardian mystery around a shabby London bookshop and one sinister object: an opal brooch shaped like a coiled serpent. Paul Beecot, a young writer chasing a literary career, falls for Sylvia Norman, whose father Aaron runs a gloomy secondhand shop and guards far more than he admits. When Aaron is found strangled, the opal serpent pinning his dead lips together, the crime proves to echo an almost identical killing more than twenty years earlier. Hume, already famous for The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, threads the puzzle through a London that runs from cramped back rooms to comfortable drawing rooms. Readers who enjoy tangled turn-of-the-century whodunits, laced with a strong strand of romance, will find this one busy, atmospheric, and cleverly resolved.

About the author

Fergus Hume

Fergus Hume entered literary life in 1880s Melbourne and became a prolific novelist after moving to England. He first published The Mystery of a Hansom Cab in 1886 after local publishers declined it; the book became an early landmark of popular detective fiction.

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Book facts

First published
1905
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
275
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)