The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds
The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell is available here as the complete text, split into 788 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #53214.
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The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A Creeping Thing!
- Chapter III A "Sound" Clue
- Chapter IV An Electrical Trap
- Chapter V What Electricity Could Not Catch
- Chapter VI A Weird Story
- Chapter VII Science to the Rescue
- Chapter VIII Basketball and Brains
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X A Defeat for Science!
- Chapter XI A Puzzling Thump
- Chapter XII Scientist Roger
- Chapter XIII Captive Roger
- Chapter XIV In the Lamasery
- Chapter XV The Image Speaks
- Chapter XVI Black Silence
- Chapter XVII A Letter Roger Had Not Sent
- Chapter XVIII Disquieting Deductions
- Chapter XIX
- Chapter XX Tragedy!
- Chapter XXI What Happened to the Eye of Om
- Chapter XXII The Acid Test
- Chapter XXIII An Impossible Camera "Shot"
- Chapter XXIV
- Chapter XXV Roger Lists His Clues
- Chapter XXVI A "Thermal" Trick
- Chapter XXVII The Fuse
- Chapter XXVIII A Surprising Capture
- Chapter XXIX The Voiceless Warning
- Chapter XXX The Hidden Menace
- Chapter XXXI A New Suspicion
- Chapter XXXII Tragedy Strikes Again
- Chapter XXXIII
- Chapter XXXIV A Law of Nature
- Chapter XXXV Revelation!
- Chapter XXXVI
- Chapter XXXVII The Ape and the Kangaroo
- Chapter XXXVIII The Mystery Wizard's Solution
- Chapter XXXIX Man and Beast
- Chapter XL Closing Time
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Project Gutenberg eBook #53214, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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About 328 minutes of reading across 788 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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Vocabulary met early in The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds
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- Wonder
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- Roger
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- Father
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- You're
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