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This story by James Oliver Curwood, published in 1913, possesses all of the great elements that make up a good adventure yarn! Old fashioned sense of nobility, falling in love, losing love, suspense, tragedies and ultimate happiness regained as the listener gets entangled in the story - full of twists and turns - of a Sergeant of the Canadian Northwest Mounted and his partner; chasing an elusive killer and his wife through a wintry and harsh world.

A big-hearted outlaw, Jolly Roger McKay, who never did anything nasty, is pursued for years by the Royal Northwest Mounties, through the Northwest Canadian wilderness, circa early 1900's. At one of his hiding places, he falls in love with a local young woman, Nada, but feels inferior to her. The puppy Peter, devoted to both the outlaw and Nada, follows him through everything; as we listeners hope these two people get back together and find happiness in this fine work by James Oliver Curwood.

This wonderfully old-fashioned adventure, love and detective story by James Oliver Curwood set in the Northern Canadian wilderness of the early 1900's will entertain and charm the listener like no other! The hero has to save his business from unknown enemies and in the process falls in love with a beautiful young woman who lives in a mysterious hidden old fort... Escapism done in a nice and well-balanced way.

Celia and her husband Seth migrate from Kentucky to the windswept, tornado-filled vastness of Kansas, where Seth might be having a job waiting for him in the soon to be built "Magic City"... but is that the whole truth? This work by Zoe Anderson Norris is filled with wonderful atmosphere; the landscape of Kansas and the omnipresent wind become complete and fascinating characters of their own, in many ways influencing or even dictating the eventual outcome for our protagonists.

The Shores brothers were seamen... They were hard working whalers but Mark and Joel had a disagreement about the recovery of a quantity of pearls acquired by Mark. He had buried them on a South Sea island as a toll for future recovery... This is the seed of the major conflict on board the ship. Will the brothers work it out? Or will both brotherly love and the ship sink, so to speak?

Welcome to the life (lives) of George Basine, and those of his family and friends; as legendary author and screenwriter Ben Hecht takes the listener through a maze of ethical conflict and identity related dilemmas involving the eternal questions of perception and self-perception... Ben Hecht (1894-1964), was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. He is best known for writing the screenplay for "Gone with the Wind", amongst many more.

An old fashioned mystery that will have the listener guessing from beginning to end! A classic whodunit filled with plot twists. When our detective hero Carlton Davies is called to the home of Ruth Darwin late at night, he once again can't help wondering what it was that forced her to marry Phillip Darwin, a powerful banker. Ruth and he and been engaged until suddenly she broke off the engagement. Hinting at some sort of blackmail, Carlton once more takes up the search to find out what it was only to find Ruth with a (literally) smoking gun in her hand.

A gloriously touching romance by Captain Charles de Créspigny, with a nicely nuanced and observed central character that grows to a noble soul. This character, a soldier of WWI; wakes up from injury only to gradually discover through his damaged memory (partly) that his day-bride has remarried (believing him to be dead)... The soldier decides to re-invent himself and his life completely from scratch - this proves to be a tall order indeed.

A deceptively simple, but in fact timeless, universal and profound story by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews about a young man making personal amends for having disappointed everyone around him, from family to school - and, perhaps most importantly, himself. It moves us and makes us think with the simplicity, charm and clarity of an old, fable-like tale.

This piece by Robert F. Young is all about the fascinating topic of time travel and the possibility of there being many copies of oneself in doing the traveling! The present year is 2178 and time travel has been illegalized. One highly skilled time traveler, Tom Mallory, decides to steal the Holy Grail, so as to be able to see out the rest of his days in prosperity. Of course, things will prove to be not so easy.

Our hero, named Hollister, is an emotionally scarred war veteran returning home, but finding social life very difficult. He migrates to a remote place in British Columbia where he starts to feel he can begin to breathe again. How will the rest of his life now turn out? Will he continue to grow as a human being? Will he find meaning and satisfaction in small things, out here in the hidden places? A wonderfully profound and old-fashioned story by Bertrand W. Sinclair awaits the listener!

Our hero, Code Schofield, is quite in a predicament: he has lost his boat in an Atlantic gale a while back, and finds himself presently viewed upon with disdain and suspicion both by his community off the coast of New Brunswick, and by insurance investigators... Has our hero something to hide? This is a wonderfully atmospheric and suspenseful tale by Frank Williams for aficionados of sea and mystery!

Through the US Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), this series of communications has been made public and available! Most of the names have been left out, but the majority of the sightings in 1947 can be known by listening to the fascinating ongoing correspondence at the time between the FBI and diverse US government and military organizations. Absolutely essential listening for both history buffs and fans of ufology.

Helen Hardwick, our heroine, is the sole witness to a part of a very mysterious murder, happening during a performance of a play she has herself written. There are not many clues, mostly just disturbing details, such as a chilling laughter that she keeps hearing... Could the mysterious and dangerous figure of the Grey Phantom be involved in this in any way, good or bad?

This is a gently self-deprecating, ironic and often warmly, sadly humorous tale by Roswell Field of a widower's last shot at happiness in love... It is narrated in the first person, that being John, a well to do and preserved (according to himself) reasonably well-preserved middle-aged widower. John falls for a much younger person - a person, while delightful, not entirely unproblematic: she is the orphaned daughter of his very first love.

Meet Edgar Braine, our accomplished main character, is the editor of a local newspaper and a politician. A diligent and centered man, having followed his old mother's advice on leading a good, ethical life; he now faces a bit of a dilemma where a caveat, a warning from his mother, might come in very handy, possibly saving him from a personal disaster.

A great, classic combination of action, love, atmosphere and personal dilemmas of the characters make this Western something to really enjoy. The story involves three main protagonist, two men and a woman; who get in to something of a triangle drama of the heart and the conscience. Set mainly in the remote harshness of Canada and the lumberjack community. Ridgwell Cullum, pseudonym of Sidney Groves Burghard, (1867-1943) was a British writer of many adventure novels often set in sparsely populated regions of the USA or Canada.

Welcome to the dangerous and rugged world of the breathtakingly majestic landscape of western Canada! Our main character, Jimmy, doesn't know whether or not he shot and killed a Northwest Mounted while he was hunting with his friends. What follows is a well-told tale by Harold Bindloss of escape and survival of our protagonist, in an unfamiliar and particularly challenging and unforgiving environment.

A fascinating and comprehensive study by Charles C. Nott of an equally fascinating historical document (the Pinckney Draught) posing the probing question: what if Charles Pinckney was the author of the U.S. Constitution? And if so: why did nothing come of it? Was there foul play behind shut doors? Charles C. Nott (1827-1916), was a Chief Justice of the United States Court of Claims. Jack Brown is a passionate reader of classic and genre oriented literature. He enjoys creating high quality audio books.

The listener is introduced to the detective Quentin Locke (based on Houdini), who investigates a cartel protected by a robot called the Automaton and the members of which use a gaseous weapon called Madagascar madness!! The hero is capable of getting himself freed of some of the strangest and most dangerous situations... This is a humorous, fast paced, high octane pulpy adventure by Arthur Benjamin Reeve for diehard fans of the genre!