The Death Shot
Thomas Mayne Reid
Leído por LibriVox Volunteers
Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author was suffering severe affliction, both physically and mentally—the result of a gun-wound that brought him as near to death as Darke’s bullet did Clancy.
It may be asked, Why under such strain was the tale written at all? A good reason could be given; but this, private and personal, need not, and should not be intruded on the public. Suffice it to say, that, dissatisfied with the execution of the work, the author has remodelled—almost rewritten it.
It is the same story; but, as he hopes and believes, better told.
Great Malvern, September, 1874. (16 hr 6 min)
Capítulos
| Prologue | 8:28 | Leído por Larry Wilson |
| Two Sorts of Slave-Owners | 8:12 | Leído por Larry Wilson |
| A Flat Refusal | 10:39 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| A Forest Post-Office | 11:27 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| Two Good Girls | 6:43 | Leído por Jeremiah Sutherland |
| A Photograph in the Forest | 11:22 | Leído por Jeremiah Sutherland |
| A Coon-Chase Interrupted | 5:41 | Leído por Jeremiah Sutherland |
| Murder Without Remorse | 10:48 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| The Coon-Hunter Cautious | 7:00 | Leído por Juliana |
| An Assassin in Retreat | 8:36 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| The Eve of Departure | 12:35 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| Under the Trysting Tree | 10:28 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| The Wrong Man | 8:59 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| The Coon-Hunter at Home | 10:16 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| Why Comes He Not? | 10:56 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| A Moonlight Moving | 9:11 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| What Has Become of Clancy? | 15:24 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| A Bullet Extracted | 9:21 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| 'To the Sheriff' | 12:23 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| The Belle of 'Natchez' | 15:06 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| Saved by a Sister | 8:20 | Leído por Mike Pelton |
| Seized by Spectral Arms | 7:02 | Leído por THBosc |
| Up and Down | 7:02 | Leído por THBosc |
| The Sleep of the Assassin | 10:12 | Leído por THBosc |
| The Coon-Hunter Conscience Striken | 7:44 | Leído por THBosc |
| An Unceremonious Search | 10:22 | Leído por John |
| Tell-Tale Tracks | 10:09 | Leído por John |
| Additional Evidence | 7:32 | Leído por John |
| 'To the Jail!' | 13:57 | Leído por John |
| A Scheme of Colonisation | 10:48 | Leído por John |
| News From Natchez | 11:14 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Spectres in the Street | 13:53 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| The 'Choctaw Chief' | 20:06 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| The Murderer Unmasked | 8:25 | Leído por Eli Beratore |
| 'Will You be One of Us?' | 14:49 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Ghost Going its Rounds | 17:06 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| 'She is True--Still True!' | 12:14 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| The Home of the Hunted Slave | 12:30 | Leído por John |
| An Excursion by Canoe | 16:02 | Leído por John |
| Is it a Corpse? | 19:16 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| 'Across the Sabine' | 8:09 | Leído por Bill Boerst |
| A Repentant Sinner | 14:00 | Leído por Bill Boerst |
| The Prairie Caravan | 11:20 | Leído por Keir |
| The Hand of God | 13:09 | Leído por Keir |
| A Cloud on the Cliffs | 9:06 | Leído por Keir |
| A Suspicious Surveillance | 19:06 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Suspected Servant | 16:43 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Opposite Emblems | 13:30 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| A Blank Day | 12:07 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| Waiting the Word | 7:30 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| An Uncanny Skulker | 14:29 | Leído por THBosc |
| Locked In | 12:14 | Leído por THBosc |
| Massacre Without Mercy | 7:24 | Leído por THBosc |
| A Horrid Spectacle | 11:02 | Leído por THBosc |
| Riding Double | 4:37 | Leído por THBosc |
| Tired Travellers | 8:08 | Leído por THBosc |
| Spectral Equestrians | 11:56 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Planning a Capture | 11:15 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Across the Ford | 10:45 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Foiled Ambuscade | 9:09 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| 'The Live-Oak' | 11:30 | Leído por Deon Gines |
| A Ruffian Triumphant | 12:42 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| 'Help! Help!' | 18:38 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| An Oath to be Kept | 11:36 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Wild Farewell | 11:57 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| For the Rendezvous | 10:40 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Scouting Party | 8:10 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Straying Traveller | 13:38 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| 'Brasfort' | 10:35 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| Shadows Behind | 10:01 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| Surrounded and Disarmed | 11:24 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Pathless Plain | 8:45 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| The Prairie Stocks | 17:33 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Helpless and Hopeless | 7:15 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Coyote Creek | 14:25 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| A Transformation | 11:51 | Leído por Jules Hawryluk |
| Mestizo and Mulatto | 6:40 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| A Strayed Traveller | 6:32 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| Hours of Agony | 6:18 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| An Unexpected Visitor | 10:23 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| A Resurrectionist | 10:51 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| The Voice of Vengeance | 6:59 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| A Man Nearly Mad | 9:12 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| At Length the 'Dead Shot' | 9:25 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| The Scout's Report | 8:48 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| A Change of Programme | 7:44 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| Alone With the Dead | 8:33 | Leído por Tom Penn |
| Hostile Cohorts | 16:00 | Leído por Tom Penn |
Reseñas
Storyline was good, author's style is bad
TwinkieToes
Set in the South much before Texas became a state. Two men love the same woman. One, honorable but poor; the other, rich but wicked. The woman makes the right choice and lets him know in a letter, but the evil suitor intercepts the letter and shoots her beloved, telling him that the woman actually loves him. The murderer flees, but still wants the woman.... The main plot line was good, but the author tried to use as many big words and as much description as he could. The book would have been better with a lot of this cut out - the book could have been 1/3 shorter without all that fluff. The characters were somewhat believable, except for what came out of their mouths. What frontier backwoodsman talks about "surrendering to Morpheus" when talking about going to sleep, or says, "Don't have any dubiousness about us" when telling someone not to worry? Some of the vocabulary of the slaves was also unbelievable and grandiose. The readers were for the most part good. Kudos especially to deongines, Mike Pelton, THBosc, John, and Tom Penn for their readings. Chapters 57 and 64 have major technical issues: the sounds are cut off, some words being cut off, subtle sounds like H and TH being altogether lost. Did the reader use way too much noise removal, or perhaps a noise cancelling microphone in a loud setting? It was hard to understand and very distracting.
GREAT ADVENTURE STORY.
tripet
WOWEEEEE. WHAT A LONG BOOK, WHERE DO THESE WRITERS GET THESE IDEAS. LOVED IT. STILL WISH A MALE CHARACTER BOOK WAS READ BY A MALE, WHY CANNOT ONE READER READ A WHOLE BOOK. ONE NEVER KNOWS WHEN A VOICE WILL CHANGE. ARE THESE READERS TESTED, NOT THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH THIS ONE I MIGHT SAY, I REALLY DID NOT WANT TO LEAVE THIS ONE AND GOT CRANKY WHEN THE PHONE RANG, ONCE I TURNED IT OFF INSTEAD OF DOWN AND IT TOOK ME AGES TO FIND IT AGAIN.
Sarah
Some of the narrators were horrible to listen to. —The story is mostly action: hunting, gun fights, climbing trees, chases on horseback, stabbing with bloody knives, kidnapping...
Vern
good story. the jules hawerlyk recordings are unbearably monotonous. almost made me quit the book but the story is worth it.
A LibriVox Listener
Great story. Terrible reading . Nearly unbearable in some cases. Reader from Mississauga Ontario especially.