The Death Shot
Thomas Mayne Reid
Gelesen von 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)
Kapitel
| Prologue | 8:28 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Two Sorts of Slave-Owners | 8:12 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| A Flat Refusal | 10:39 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| A Forest Post-Office | 11:27 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| Two Good Girls | 6:43 | Gelesen von Jeremiah Sutherland |
| A Photograph in the Forest | 11:22 | Gelesen von Jeremiah Sutherland |
| A Coon-Chase Interrupted | 5:41 | Gelesen von Jeremiah Sutherland |
| Murder Without Remorse | 10:48 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| The Coon-Hunter Cautious | 7:00 | Gelesen von Juliana |
| An Assassin in Retreat | 8:36 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| The Eve of Departure | 12:35 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| Under the Trysting Tree | 10:28 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| The Wrong Man | 8:59 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| The Coon-Hunter at Home | 10:16 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| Why Comes He Not? | 10:56 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| A Moonlight Moving | 9:11 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| What Has Become of Clancy? | 15:24 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| A Bullet Extracted | 9:21 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| 'To the Sheriff' | 12:23 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| The Belle of 'Natchez' | 15:06 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| Saved by a Sister | 8:20 | Gelesen von Mike Pelton |
| Seized by Spectral Arms | 7:02 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| Up and Down | 7:02 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| The Sleep of the Assassin | 10:12 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| The Coon-Hunter Conscience Striken | 7:44 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| An Unceremonious Search | 10:22 | Gelesen von John |
| Tell-Tale Tracks | 10:09 | Gelesen von John |
| Additional Evidence | 7:32 | Gelesen von John |
| 'To the Jail!' | 13:57 | Gelesen von John |
| A Scheme of Colonisation | 10:48 | Gelesen von John |
| News From Natchez | 11:14 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Spectres in the Street | 13:53 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| The 'Choctaw Chief' | 20:06 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| The Murderer Unmasked | 8:25 | Gelesen von Eli Beratore |
| 'Will You be One of Us?' | 14:49 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Ghost Going its Rounds | 17:06 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| 'She is True--Still True!' | 12:14 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| The Home of the Hunted Slave | 12:30 | Gelesen von John |
| An Excursion by Canoe | 16:02 | Gelesen von John |
| Is it a Corpse? | 19:16 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| 'Across the Sabine' | 8:09 | Gelesen von Bill Boerst |
| A Repentant Sinner | 14:00 | Gelesen von Bill Boerst |
| The Prairie Caravan | 11:20 | Gelesen von Keir |
| The Hand of God | 13:09 | Gelesen von Keir |
| A Cloud on the Cliffs | 9:06 | Gelesen von Keir |
| A Suspicious Surveillance | 19:06 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Suspected Servant | 16:43 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Opposite Emblems | 13:30 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| A Blank Day | 12:07 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| Waiting the Word | 7:30 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| An Uncanny Skulker | 14:29 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| Locked In | 12:14 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| Massacre Without Mercy | 7:24 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| A Horrid Spectacle | 11:02 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| Riding Double | 4:37 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| Tired Travellers | 8:08 | Gelesen von THBosc |
| Spectral Equestrians | 11:56 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Planning a Capture | 11:15 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Across the Ford | 10:45 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Foiled Ambuscade | 9:09 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| 'The Live-Oak' | 11:30 | Gelesen von Deon Gines |
| A Ruffian Triumphant | 12:42 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| 'Help! Help!' | 18:38 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| An Oath to be Kept | 11:36 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Wild Farewell | 11:57 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| For the Rendezvous | 10:40 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Scouting Party | 8:10 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Straying Traveller | 13:38 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| 'Brasfort' | 10:35 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| Shadows Behind | 10:01 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| Surrounded and Disarmed | 11:24 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Pathless Plain | 8:45 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| The Prairie Stocks | 17:33 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Helpless and Hopeless | 7:15 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Coyote Creek | 14:25 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| A Transformation | 11:51 | Gelesen von Jules Hawryluk |
| Mestizo and Mulatto | 6:40 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| A Strayed Traveller | 6:32 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| Hours of Agony | 6:18 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| An Unexpected Visitor | 10:23 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| A Resurrectionist | 10:51 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| The Voice of Vengeance | 6:59 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| A Man Nearly Mad | 9:12 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| At Length the 'Dead Shot' | 9:25 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| The Scout's Report | 8:48 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| A Change of Programme | 7:44 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| Alone With the Dead | 8:33 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
| Hostile Cohorts | 16:00 | Gelesen von Tom Penn |
Bewertungen
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.