A Fiend in Need, by Milton K. Ozaki (1913 - 1989)
Volunteers outside the USA: Milton K. Ozaki died in 1989. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 70 years for authors who died after 1971; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435055406920There were no tell-tale traces of blood, no traces of struggle, no clues that Lieutenant Phelan could put his fingers on-yet someone had plunged a knife into Lawrence Straw, an auditor with a deft head for double figures, and deposited him in a not-too-private self-service elevator. Suspects are too few. A wealthy widow with an acid tongue, a small- time gambler with an unpredictable wife, a hard-boiled restaurant owner, a popular lecturer, a college professor, a night club operator and three lovelies who pose for forbidden photographs. All have alibis. And Lieutenant Phelan is more stumped than ever when his No. 1 suspect is murdered in the same way. Professor of Psychology Caldwell then steps in to give Phelan a hand. He sends out his irrepressible assistant, Bendy Brinks, to search for clues. And Bendy, who has a willing eye for blondes, redheads or brunettes, uncovers some startling evidence and some startling women—both of which Professor Caldwell uses in a neat bit of detection to trap an unexpected killer. (Summary by Handi-book Mystery Edition, Back Cover)
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Genres for the project: Crime & Mystery Fiction/Detective Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: Mystery, Crime, murder, hard-boiled, amateur detective, milton k. ozaki
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
For the first section, say:
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End of recording:"Section (or Chapter) # of A Fiend in Need, by Milton K. Ozaki. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Section Title."
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Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of A Fiend in Need, by Milton K. Ozaki."
Filename: fiendinneed_##_ozaki_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. fiendinneed_01_ozaki_128kb.mp3)
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