Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's frozen, yet perfectly preserved, body is found in the river. As the family discusses this news of the day, good friend Jeffrey returns from a sabbatical, suddenly undertaken after finishing a commission to paint the portrait of a dead girl. The mystery deepens as the chapters progress and Jeffrey and Drew investigate as the haunting coincidences begin to pile up. ( Kate Follis)
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Genres for the project: General Fiction/Published 1900 onward
Keywords that describe the book:
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The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording! START of recording (Intro):
"Chapter [number] of The Ghost Girl. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Say: "The Ghost Girl, by Henry Kitchell Webster. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Chapter [number] of The Ghost Girl by Henry Kitchell Webster. This LibriVox recording is in the Public Domain."
If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
Only if applicable, say: "[Chapter title]"
END of recording:
At the end of the section, say: "End of [Chapter]"
If you wish, say: "Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]"
At the end of the book, say (in addition): "End of The Ghost Girl, by Henry Kitchell Webster. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename ghostgirl_##_webster_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. ghostgirl_01_webster_128kb.mp3)
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Last edited by queenk8 on April 9th, 2018, 10:14 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
Summary to be updated and tags to be added before cataloging.
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
I've taken the liberty of listing myself a dpl. The author is/was local. If you have someone else in mind I can easily change it. Let me know if anything needs fixing in the MW. When you update the book summary let me know so I can change the copy that will be used when the book is catalogued. ID3 tags are automatically generated from the MW during cataloguing so you don't need to worry about them.
craigdav1 wrote: ↑February 24th, 2018, 2:30 pm
MW to follow.
I've taken the liberty of listing myself a dpl. The author is/was local. If you have someone else in mind I can easily change it. Let me know if anything needs fixing in the MW. When you update the book summary let me know so I can change the copy that will be used when the book is catalogued. ID3 tags are automatically generated from the MW during cataloguing so you don't need to worry about them.
This is perfect, Dave. Happy to have you on board.
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
craigdav1 wrote: ↑February 24th, 2018, 3:47 pm
We'll stay on the "Launch Pad" for a day or two before moving to the "Going Solo" forum. Now I need to learn more about the author.
Both Wikipedia and IMDb are rather sparse when it comes to the bio. I discovered this author/book while reading a section for the Mentor 2, Makers of American Fiction - Men. Even that is a passing mention ("It is now almost twenty years since Henry Kitchell Webster and Samuel Merwin began their writing careers in collaboration. Together they wrote “The Short Line War” (1899), “Calumet K” and “Comrade John.” All these were well-told tales, and the later years, when each man has been working alone, have shown that neither one carried an undue share of the burden. Mr. Webster’s books include “The Whispering Man,” “A King in Khaki,” “The Ghost Girl,” “The Butterfly” and “The Real Adventure.”) Apparently "Calumet K" was the favorite book of Ayn Rand. Honestly, I was just intrigued by the title of this story, but when putting together the project notes, found it referenced in a blog discussing best books about séances where it was described as ridiculously scarce but one of the best of its genre. I read the opening paragraph and just knew I had to record it.
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
And here's where I discover that these are recurring characters, having previously appeared in "The Whispering Man." I'll have to try to hunt that down when I'm done with this one.
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?
Kate Follis
I love to read, AND my employer matches my volunteer hours with a donation to the Internet Archive, flagged to benefit Librivox.org. How cool is that?