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The Yellow Face

Fred M. White (1859 - 1935)

Who is Nostalgo ?

Posters with his unsettlingly grinning face are appearing on scaffolds all over London.
A murdered body, horribly disfigured and bearing a striking resemblance to the man on the poster, vanishes from a police-station.

Jack Masefield wants to protect his fiancée Claire from her shady guardian Anstruther, and before he knows it, he is in the thick of the mystery, unraveling a tale of greed, deception, revenge and dark deeds. - Summary by Sonia

Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction

Language: English

Keyword(s): adventure (991), Mystery (731), Crime (226), music (130), revenge (27), surgery (6), magician (2), nostalgo (1)

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Chapter I. Nostalgo	Sonia	00:12:45
Play 02	Chapter II. The Chopin Nocturne	Sonia	00:04:29
Play 03	Chapter III. The mystery of the strings	Sonia	00:19:11
Play 04	Chapter IV. The speaking likeness	Sonia	00:19:10
Play 05	Chapter V. A vanished clue	Sonia	00:13:18
Play 06	Chapter VI. Vanished !	Sonia	00:13:06
Play 07	Chapter VII. No. 4, Montrose Place	Sonia	00:14:19
Play 08	Chapter VIII. The Chopin Fantasie	Sonia	00:14:16
Play 09	Chapter IX. The man with the fair moustache	Sonia	00:13:07
Play 10	Chapter X. What did she know ?	Sonia	00:15:19
Play 11	Chapter XI. The shadow on the wall	Sonia	00:15:03
Play 12	Chapter XII. Locked in !	Sonia	00:13:57
Play 13	Chapter XIII. The parable	Sonia	00:13:48
Play 14	Chapter XIV. Nostalgo again	Sonia	00:12:55
Play 15	Chapter XV. Lady Barmouth	Sonia	00:15:02
Play 16	Chapter XVI. The bosom of her family	Sonia	00:12:42
Play 17	Chapter XVII. Which man was it ?	Sonia	00:14:40
Play 18	Chapter XVIII. The empty room	Sonia	00:12:12
Play 19	Chapter XIX. A broken melody	Sonia	00:13:18
Play 20	Chapter XX. The mouse in the trap	Sonia	00:14:02
Play 21	Chapter XXI. A leader of society	Sonia	00:14:52
Play 22	Chapter XXII. The portrait	Sonia	00:14:41
Play 23	Chapter XXIII. Face to face	Sonia	00:14:47
Play 24	Chapter XXIV. In the Square	Sonia	00:11:51
Play 25	Chapter XXV. On the track	Sonia	00:15:12
Play 26	Chapter XXVI. Serena again	Sonia	00:11:50
Play 27	Chapter XXVII. In the smoking-room	Sonia	00:13:55
Play 28	Chapter XXVIII. The lamp goes out	Sonia	00:11:59
Play 29	Chapter XXIX. The silver lamp	Sonia	00:14:02
Play 30	Chapter XXX. Bedroom 14	Sonia	00:12:11
Play 31	Chapter XXXI. A chance encounter	Sonia	00:13:40
Play 32	Chapter XXXII. Lady Barmouth's jewels	Sonia	00:13:25
Play 33	Chapter XXXIII. Gems or paste ?	Sonia	00:13:36
Play 34	Chapter XXXIV. In the vault	Sonia	00:13:20
Play 35	Chapter XXXV. The Cellini plate	Sonia	00:12:19
Play 36	Chapter XXXVI. A stroke of policy	Sonia	00:16:17
Play 37	Chapter XXXVII. A pregnant message	Sonia	00:13:38
Play 38	Chapter XXXVIII. The cry in the night	Sonia	00:14:12
Play 39	Chapter XXXIX. Preparing the way	Sonia	00:13:51
Play 40	Chapter XL. The magician speaks	Sonia	00:15:16
Play 41	Chapter XLI. The worm turns	Sonia	00:14:36
Play 42	Chapter XLII. A piece of music	Sonia	00:14:12
Play 43	Chapter XLIII. The trap is baited	Sonia	00:12:45
Play 44	Chapter XLIV. The substitute	Sonia	00:13:06
Play 45	Chapter XLV. Caught !	Sonia	00:15:06
Play 46	Chapter XLVI. The music stops	Sonia	00:14:05
Play 47	Chapter XLVII. ''A woman scorned''	Sonia	00:14:23
Play 48	Chapter XLVIII. The proof of the camera	Sonia	00:14:11
Play 49	Chapter XLIX. Proof positive	Sonia	00:13:44
Play 50	Chapter L. On the brink	Sonia	00:13:27
Play 51	Chapter LI. Against the World	Sonia	00:14:30
Play 52	Chapter LII. The end of it all	Sonia	00:13:59

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