The Filigree Ball by Anna Katharine Green ~ Full Audiobook [mystery]

The Filigree Ball by Anna Katharine Green audiobook.

Genre: mystery

[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial times; but the shadow which speedily fell across it made it a marked place even in those early days. While it has always escaped the hackneyed epithet of 'haunted,' families that have moved in have as quickly moved out, giving as their excuse that no happiness was to be found there and that sleep was impossible under its roof.

That there was some reason for this lack of rest within walls which were not without their tragic reminiscences, all must acknowledge. Death had often occurred there, and while this fact can be stated in regard to most old houses, it is not often that one can say, as in this case, that it was invariably sudden and invariably of one character. A lifeless man, lying outstretched on a certain hearthstone, might be found once in a house and awaken no special comment; but when this same discovery has been made twice, if not thrice, during the history of a single dwelling, one might surely be pardoned a distrust of its seemingly home-like appointments, and discern in its slowly darkening walls the presence of an evil which if left to itself might perish in the natural decay of the place, but which, if met and challenged, might strike again and make another blot on its thrice-crimsoned hearthstone. - Excerpt from Chapter I

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:14:06) Chapter 02

(00:46:46) Chapter 03

(01:26:48) Chapter 04

(01:52:40) Chapter 05

(02:12:37) Chapter 06

(02:47:20) Chapter 07

(03:12:25) Chapter 08

(03:27:08) Chapter 09

(03:34:21) Chapter 10

(04:06:22) Chapter 11

(04:27:56) Chapter 12

(04:52:41) Chapter 13

(05:16:43) Chapter 14

(05:37:36) Chapter 15

(05:49:38) Chapter 16

(06:03:53) Chapter 17

(06:38:40) Chapter 18

(06:55:10) Chapter 19

(07:25:04) Chapter 20

(07:43:43) Chapter 21

(07:55:00) Chapter 22

(08:21:52) Chapter 23

(08:50:38) Chapter 24

(09:14:23) Chapter 25

(09:45:11) Chapter 26

(10:08:16) Chapter 27

(10:35:02) Chapter 28

(10:50:09) Chapter 29

(11:12:13) Chapter 30

(11:35:16) Chapter 31

(11:56:31) Chapter 32

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