Internet Archive's in-browser audio with external links "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

The Mystery of 31 New Inn

by: R. Austin Freeman

Publication date: 2010-05-06

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, fiction, mystery

Language: English

Librivox recording of The Mystery of 31 New Inn by R. Austin Freeman.
Read by LibriVox Volunteers.

Jeffrey Blackmore suspiciously made two wills, both deceptively alike, but still, in a cunning way, completely different. John Thorndyke, equally cunning and smart, smells something fishy. With stylish cool and logic, he leads the story up to its marvelous and fully credible climax. (Summary by Neeru Iyer)

For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org.

Download M4B Part 1 (108MB)
Download M4B Part 2 (114MB)

Addeddate: 2010-05-06 03:45:48

Boxid: OL100020410

Call number: 3802

External-identifier: urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:mystery_31newinn_1005_librivox

External_metadata_update: 2019-04-16T18:29:44Z

Identifier: mystery_31newinn_1005_librivox

Ocr: tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e

Ocr_autonomous: true

Ocr_detected_lang: en

Ocr_detected_lang_conf: 1.0000

Ocr_detected_script: Latin

Ocr_detected_script_conf: 1.0000

plus-circle Add Review

comment
Reviews

Reviewer: dorcas70 - - March 27, 2020
Subject: Enjoyable story

This gets a little confusing at times, especially near the end but well worth reading.

Reviewer: Margaret87 - - April 15, 2019
Subject: Very enjoyable

Even a good story can be spoilt by a poor reader. Then again, I see from other comments that we don't all agree about who is a good or a poor reader. For instance I found R.E. Faust reading of the two last chapters very enjoyable – lively and clear, whereas an earlier reader swallowed the syllables of so many words I kept losing track.

R Austin Freeman's Dr Thorndyke stories are so fascinating that even if whodidit is easy to identify, how he and his chums go about proving it is really entertaining.

Thank you Librivox for these books. Being forced into inactivity for the moment, the tv not worth putting on these days, and with failing eyesight, I'd go nuts without you.

Reviewer: benefitsingers - - January 21, 2011
Subject: A quirky story

This story was overall a good mystery, although there were times in that it truly frustrated me. It starts out with you thinking Jervis is the main character but really he isn't. His friend Thorndyke in my opinion was the "Sherlock Holmes" of this story and Jervis was probably Dr. Watson. Sometimes Jervis was so dim I wanted to scream. Also the one part of the case that jumped out at me as being a completely glaring piece of evidence was not focused on as much as I thought it should have been. The story also ended a bit abruptly which I found rather odd as well. Overall it is a mystery that will hold your interest and worth listening to. The narration was mixed and I only liked the male narrator's on this one. If any of those three had narrated the whole story I think that would have been much better. Kudos to those male narrators in particular Steven Seitel and Jim O'Conner (love that sweet New England accent). I will look for more books with those gentleman as narrators.

Reviewer: mikezane - - May 24, 2010
Subject: Mostly good book

Dr Thorndyke, medical doctor and detective, has been engaged on another case where a gentleman has died, leaving his fortune to his estranged brother. The case looks fishy because the will was created just before his suicide, and just after his wealthier sister died. The lawyers for the deceased can't find anything suspicious in the will, yet the timing is too perfect to be genuine. How will Thorndyke solve this case? Good story, if a bit predictable.

The readers are mixed, some recordings are a bit rough, GE will filter them fine. The only minor grouch I had was the reader of the last two chapters is kind of annoying; his cadence is difficult to follow.

374,997 Views

10 Favorites

4 Reviews