COMPLETE: The Charing Cross Mystery by J. S. Fletcher -jo

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » January 29th, 2021, 2:56 pm

Hi T, K ...

Still alive but suffering the consequences of having idiotically believed I could function at full capacity while going through 3 months of weekly outpatient laser brain surgery, of course general anesthesia.

Yes, I did mean to write OUT patient BRAIN surgery. Weird.

Anyhow I think I will be recording something in the next few days, and I'm almost certain I will wrap this project up no later than sometime in March.

Thanks for your patience.

FYI, for what it's worth, it's now been over 4 months that Chrome has flagged LibriVox as unsafe. I believe that since 2011 this problem has never lasted longer a few weeks. ( I've been downloading LV material every week or so, on average, since 2010.)

Just sayin' - thought maybe you LV toffs didn't know.

Talk to you soon ... Kirsten

Post by **TriciaG** » January 29th, 2021, 3:02 pm

Wow!

Get better soon!

The "LV is unsafe" flag on Chrome will never go away now, because they are now flagging when we link to non-secure sites. Even elements that have nothing that need to be secure on them (the images on catalog pages, perhaps even the audio files themselves) cause it to have a conniption fit.

Here's a post with workarounds: viewtopic.php?f=29&t=84331

It's a vast Google conspiracy to make every single web page pay for security certificates.

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » February 19th, 2021, 8:23 pm

Chapter 17

19:40

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/charingcrossmystery_17_fletcher_128kb.mp3

Post by **TriciaG** » February 20th, 2021, 11:57 am

The reading of 17 is PL OK, but the quality isn't the best. The mic sounds "hot", like the input was too high. I do notice when I import it into Audacity, that the wave forms are heavily compressed - look like someone took a lawnmower to them.

Your previous chapters were pretty even in wave form, but these are much more flattened.

Compare the sound of chapter 16 to 17, and you may hear what I mean.

It's your choice on what to do about it, if anything. The existing file can't be fixed; it would require adjusting your recording levels and redoing it.

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » March 1st, 2021, 1:03 pm

Hi Tricia,

I should apologize for even having asked you to PL the thing. Of course I noticed the problem -- did all I could to fix it -- hoped against hope that in the ether on its way from me to you the heavens would reshape the wave forms .... MAGICAL THINKING.

It's all because I wasn't holding the mic in the right position. So I WILL re-do it. Kill the durned thing.

Kirsten

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » March 1st, 2021, 2:11 pm

Ch 17 re-recorded

Tricia, I pasted this over the earlier version in the MW -- i THINK that will replace it ...

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/charingcrossmystery_17_fletcher_128kb.mp3

19:39

Post by **TriciaG** » March 1st, 2021, 3:12 pm

Better!

Volume is about 98 dB; needs to come down about 7 or 8 dB or so.

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » March 1st, 2021, 4:31 pm

new new chapter 17, same time

AND

chaptr 18

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/charingcrossmystery_17_fletcher_128kb.mp3

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/charingcrossmystery_18_fletcher_128kb.mp3
24:10

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » March 1st, 2021, 6:28 pm

And Chapter 19

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/charingcrossmystery_19_fletcher_128kb.mp3

17:16

Post by **TriciaG** » March 2nd, 2021, 2:00 pm

17, 18, 19 PL OK!

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » April 9th, 2021, 11:06 am

Chapter 20

19:48

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/charingcrossmystery_20_fletcher_128kb.mp3

Post by **TriciaG** » April 9th, 2021, 12:49 pm

PL OK!

Oh, we have to have the stereotypical hook-nosed, beady-eyed Jew, do we?

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » April 9th, 2021, 1:02 pm

Tricia,

I wanted to solo this because JS Fletcher is one of the three or four best (IMHO) fin-de-ciecle mystery writers. HOWEVER, I think this might have been part of what we politely call the author's "formative" , er .... "juvenalia." The SLOWWWWW movement and ENNNNNDLESS repetition is driving me KRAzy. I'm ready to jump into the plot and turn those two British fops on to powdered cocaine -- ANYthing to get the damned thing moving so I can return to higher quality stuff. ARGH. (Teach me to leap before I look! ... but it won't.)

'Good news is I busted a few bones, taking 50% of my limbs out of commission and leaving me bed-ridden but full of energy -- a perfect state in which to reel out lousy chapters mindlessly. (I just need follow-through!)

--Kirsten

Kirsten Wever · Post by **Kirsten Wever** » June 3rd, 2021, 12:43 pm

Hi Joe, Tricia,
Still here. Dislocated shoulder is latest physical ridiculousness. Therefore more delay. Surgeon says wait a month or so before activity.

Take care, Kirsten