Swamp Island
Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Read by Bellona Times
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Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns an escaped embezzler, his revenge on the reporter whose articles helped convict him, and a long missing $50 grand. - Summary by BellonaTimes (4 hr 46 min)
Chapters
The Bearded Stranger | 9:12 | Read by Bellona Times |
Alerting All Cars | 13:10 | Read by Bellona Times |
Unfinished Business | 12:26 | Read by Bellona Times |
A Traffic Accident | 9:45 | Read by Bellona Times |
The Red Stain | 12:20 | Read by Bellona Times |
Ambulance Call | 9:57 | Read by Bellona Times |
An Empty Bed | 10:51 | Read by Bellona Times |
In Search of Jerry | 8:16 | Read by Bellona Times |
The Widow Jones | 13:20 | Read by Bellona Times |
Inside the Woodshed | 10:47 | Read by Bellona Times |
An Abandoned Car | 13:06 | Read by Bellona Times |
A Job For Penny | 12:24 | Read by Bellona Times |
Into the Swamp | 9:18 | Read by Bellona Times |
A Code Message | 9:16 | Read by Bellona Times |
Beyond the Boardwalk | 10:53 | Read by Bellona Times |
Treed by a Boar | 9:27 | Read by Bellona Times |
Rescue | 10:47 | Read by Bellona Times |
Wanted: A Guide | 15:08 | Read by Bellona Times |
Penny's Plan | 10:20 | Read by Bellona Times |
Trailing Hod Hawkins | 11:05 | Read by Bellona Times |
The Tunnel of Leaves | 9:32 | Read by Bellona Times |
Help From Tony | 13:21 | Read by Bellona Times |
Lost in the Hyacinths | 11:10 | Read by Bellona Times |
Under the Fencepost | 13:07 | Read by Bellona Times |
Outwitted | 17:34 | Read by Bellona Times |
Reviews
Yet another great tale!
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Ancient Aunt
These Penny Parker tales are just plain fabulous. Highly entertaining and action-packed adventures abound in this particular one. Wow, what a lot of excitement.
love it and the others
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A LibriVox Listener
love penny parker mysteries cant wait to hear the last 11 of the 17 books
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A LibriVox Listener
I liked the story but the reading was very distracting, odd pauses and a staccato cadence was hard to get over .
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Ro
I really am enjoying this nosey girl detective. Great story. The reader was good also. thanks Librivox
swamp island
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Sally Laspesa
I really enjoy Mildred Bensons mysteries. Good character narrations also.
Exciting tale!! For all ages
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Betsy A
At this point Ive read all of the books that I could find (Project Gutenberg ) and listened to the audios. While there is no better reader anywhere for Penny than Cheryl Adam , I must give credit to M. Pierard for his obvious love of the material and his enthusiasm. I found myself really loving his characters and even the odd pauses. I now look forward to listening to him reading Flash Evans, the only Wirt I havent heard yet
Wonderful
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Bibliophile
Yet more Penny Parker, what's not to love? So thankful to the reader and editor(s) for doing this book. There are many more Penny Parkers that I hope might be done for Librivox one day.
good series
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A LibriVox Listener
I like the reader's accents but could not stand the staccato way he talked. He sounded like Captain Kirk. He...talked...like...this... Argghhhh please re-record this book.