Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp by Jack Boyle (1881 - 1928).
Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became dependent upon the drug to make his deadlines, lost his job, and turned to crime to support his habit. He served several prison terms and while incarcerated in Colorado began writing a series of short stories for the American Magazine based on his experiences. Boston Blackie was a much darker character in these early stories than he became in later incarnations in book, film, radio and television, which dropped his opium dependence. This collection presents the first four Boston Blackie stories to be published, prefaced by an autobiographical piece by Boyle, who wrote them all under the pseudonym “No. 6606,” his prisoner number. ( Winston Tharp)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056072435;view=1up;seq=541
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056072427;view=1up;seq=19
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056072427;view=1up;seq=141
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056072427;view=1up;seq=231
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015056072427;view=1up;seq=307 - Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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- Project Code: dWdFr3rr
- Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Jack Boyle) : n/a
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Blackie
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 4
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
- Original publication date (if known): 1914
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Keywords that describe the book: San Francisco, prison, opium, hard boiled, safe cracking
============================================ - 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 Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp. 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:
"Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp, by Jack Boyle. [Chapter]"
For the second and all subsequent sections, you may optionally use the shortened form of this intro disclaimer:- "Chapter [number] of Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp by Jack Boyle. 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]"
- 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 Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp, by Jack Boyle. "
There should be 5 seconds silence at the end of the recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes. - Example filename bostonblackie_##_boyle.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. bostonblackie_01_boyle.mp3)
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