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Man with the Black Feather

Name: Man with the Black Feather
Author: Gaston Leroux

Gaston Leroux

Read by Adrian Wilson · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Historical Preface: The Sandalwood Box (4:08)
M. Theophrastus Longuet Desires To Improve His Mind and Visits Historical Monuments (13:57)
The Scrap of Paper (12:19)
Theophrastus Longuet Bursts Into Song (32:33)
Adolphe Lecamus Is Flabbergasted but Frank (8:49)
Theophrastus Shows the Black Feather (15:01)
The Portrait (27:37)
The Young Cartouche (18:09)
The Wax Mask (14:32)
Strange Position of a Little Violet Cat (9:44)
The Explanation of the Strange Attitude of a Little Violet Cat (13:32)
Theophrastus Maintains That He Did Not Die On the Place de Gréve (10:51)
The House of Strange Words (13:32)
The Cure That Missed (19:58)
The Operation Begins (18:55)
The Operation Ends (18:15)
The Drawbacks of Psychic Surgery (6:50)
Theophrastus Begins To Take An Interest In Things (7:47)
The Evening Paper (12:27)
The Story of the Calf (16:35)
The Strange Behaviour of an Express Train (11:28)
The Earless Man With His Head Out of the Window (5:27)
In Which the Catastrophe Which Appears On the Point of Being Explained, Grows Yet More Inexplicable (8:36)
The Melodious Bricklayer (9:02)
The Solution in the Catacombs (15:25)
Mifroid Takes the Lead (19:11)
M. Longuet Fishes in the Catacombs (14:43)
M. Mifroid Parts from Theophrastus (10:28)
Theophrastus Goes Into Eternal Exile (9:09)