Volunteers outside the USA: Author name died in 1961. The author's work is still protected by copyright in places like Europe, where copyright is author's death plus 70 years, Australia (author's death plus 70 years for authors who died after 1955).
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental Detective Agency operative survives being knocked unconscious and dumped in San Francisco Bay. This kind of action was what his Black Mask magazine editors and readers were asking for, and Hammett somewhat grudgingly obliged them with continuing stories of the Continental Op. (Winston Tharp)
Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
IMPORTANT - soloist, please note: in order to limit the amount of languishing projects (and hence the amount of files on our hard-pressed server), we ask that you post an update at least once a month in your project thread, even if you haven't managed to record anything. If we don't hear from you for three months, your project may be opened up to a group project if a Book Coordinator is found. Files you have completed will be used in this project. If you haven't recorded anything yet, your project will be removed from the forum (contact any admin to see if it can be re-instated). Please don't download or listen to files belonging to projects in process (unless you are the BC or PL). Our servers are not set up to handle the greater volume of traffic. Please wait until the project has been completed. Thanks!
Genres for the project: Short Stories; Crime & Mystery Fiction/Detective Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: Detective, Mystery, San Francisco, hard-boiled, noir
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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):
"Section [number] of The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories. 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 Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories, by Dashiell Hammett. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:
"Section [number] of The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories by Dashiell Hammett. 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 [Section]"
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 Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories, by Dashiell Hammett. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
Example filename tenthclew_##_hammett_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. tenthclew_01_hammett_128kb.mp3)
Example ID3 V2 tags
Artist: Dashiell Hammett
Title: ## - [Section title]
Album: The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories
Transfer of files (completed recordings) Please always post in this forum thread when you've sent a file. Also, post the length of the recording (file duration: mm:ss) together with the link.
Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: knotyouraveragejo
When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
Well, it's taken a while, Colleen, but here's Section 1. Pardon me while I shake the water out of my ears...that San Francisco Bay can be cold this time of year!
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
Thanks, Colleen. I'm working on the second section, but RL has been more than usually getting in the way! I may finish this project by the end of the year (I hope).
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock
k5hsj wrote: ↑April 12th, 2020, 10:50 pm
Thanks, Colleen. I'm working on the second section, but RL has been more than usually getting in the way! I may finish this project by the end of the year (I hope).
No worries. This is a crazy time. Looking forward to more!
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
Looking forward to it! Can't do any of my own recording today because wife is working on machinery in the yard and housemate is cleaning house downstairs so looks like it's gonna be prooflistening day, good timing!
And don't worry about going slow. I'm working on a NINETY part solo project (what was I thinking) and after a year and 3 months, I just uploaded section 17. Though I do want to make a push on it while we are isolating....it's for fun, and it will be done when it gets done!
Colleen
Colleen McMahon
No matter where you go, there you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai
No problem, Colleen. I'm dragging my feet on this one. May end up breaking it up into more than one solo, because three of the remaining stories are novella length!
Winston
Be kind. Be interesting. Be useful. Morality ain't hard.--Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock