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Death Shot

Name: Death Shot
Author: Thomas Mayne Reid

Thomas Mayne Reid

Read by Larry Wilson, Deon Gines, Jeremiah Sutherland, Mike Pelton, Juliana, THBosc, John, Jules Hawryluk, Eli Beratore, Bill Boerst, Keir and Tom Penn · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Prologue (8:28)
Two Sorts of Slave-Owners (8:12)
A Flat Refusal (10:39)
A Forest Post-Office (11:27)
Two Good Girls (6:43)
A Photograph in the Forest (11:22)
A Coon-Chase Interrupted (5:41)
Murder Without Remorse (10:48)
The Coon-Hunter Cautious (7:00)
An Assassin in Retreat (8:36)
The Eve of Departure (12:35)
Under the Trysting Tree (10:28)
The Wrong Man (8:59)
The Coon-Hunter at Home (10:16)
Why Comes He Not? (10:56)
A Moonlight Moving (9:11)
What Has Become of Clancy? (15:24)
A Bullet Extracted (9:21)
'To the Sheriff' (12:23)
The Belle of 'Natchez' (15:06)
Saved by a Sister (8:20)
Seized by Spectral Arms (7:02)
Up and Down (7:02)
The Sleep of the Assassin (10:12)
The Coon-Hunter Conscience Striken (7:44)
An Unceremonious Search (10:22)
Tell-Tale Tracks (10:09)
Additional Evidence (7:32)
'To the Jail!' (13:57)
A Scheme of Colonisation (10:48)
News From Natchez (11:14)
Spectres in the Street (13:53)
The 'Choctaw Chief' (20:06)
The Murderer Unmasked (8:25)
'Will You be One of Us?' (14:49)
A Ghost Going its Rounds (17:06)
'She is True--Still True!' (12:14)
The Home of the Hunted Slave (12:30)
An Excursion by Canoe (16:02)
Is it a Corpse? (19:16)
'Across the Sabine' (8:09)
A Repentant Sinner (14:00)
The Prairie Caravan (11:20)
The Hand of God (13:09)
A Cloud on the Cliffs (9:06)
A Suspicious Surveillance (19:06)
A Suspected Servant (16:43)
Opposite Emblems (13:30)
A Blank Day (12:07)
Waiting the Word (7:30)
An Uncanny Skulker (14:29)
Locked In (12:14)
Massacre Without Mercy (7:24)
A Horrid Spectacle (11:02)
Riding Double (4:37)
Tired Travellers (8:08)
Spectral Equestrians (11:56)
Planning a Capture (11:15)
Across the Ford (10:45)
A Foiled Ambuscade (9:09)
'The Live-Oak' (11:30)
A Ruffian Triumphant (12:42)
'Help! Help!' (18:38)
An Oath to be Kept (11:36)
A Wild Farewell (11:57)
For the Rendezvous (10:40)
A Scouting Party (8:10)
A Straying Traveller (13:38)
'Brasfort' (10:35)
Shadows Behind (10:01)
Surrounded and Disarmed (11:24)
A Pathless Plain (8:45)
The Prairie Stocks (17:33)
Helpless and Hopeless (7:15)
Coyote Creek (14:25)
A Transformation (11:51)
Mestizo and Mulatto (6:40)
A Strayed Traveller (6:32)
Hours of Agony (6:18)
An Unexpected Visitor (10:23)
A Resurrectionist (10:51)
The Voice of Vengeance (6:59)
A Man Nearly Mad (9:12)
At Length the 'Dead Shot' (9:25)
The Scout's Report (8:48)
A Change of Programme (7:44)
Alone With the Dead (8:33)
Hostile Cohorts (16:00)