The Phantom Town Mystery
The Phantom Town Mystery by Carol Norton is available here as the complete text, split into 749 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Phantom Town Mystery by Carol Norton. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #43699.
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The Phantom Town Mystery
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Ghost Town
- Chapter III The Missing Friends
- Chapter IV “Desperate Dick”
- Chapter V Poor Little Bodil
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII Middle of the Night
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX A Vagabond Family
- Chapter X A Lonely Mountain Road
- Chapter XI The Skeleton Stage Coach
- Chapter XII A Narrow Escape
- Chapter XIII A Sand Storm
- Chapter XIV “A.’s and N. E.’s.”
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI Searching for Clues
- Chapter XVII A Wooden Doll
- Chapter XVIII A Strange Hostess
- Chapter XIX A Gun Shot
- Chapter XX Introducing an Air Scout
- Chapter XXI A Possible Clue
- Chapter XXII An Interesting Arrival
- Chapter XXIII A Silver Plane
- Chapter XXIV A Long Night Watch
- Chapter XXV A Cry for Help
- Chapter XXVI Is It a Clue?
- Chapter XXVII It Was a Clue
- Chapter XXVIII A New Complication
- Chapter XXIX An Old Letter
- Chapter XXX Secret Entrance to the Rock House
- Chapter XXXI A Wonderful Secret Told
This edition of The Phantom Town Mystery by Carol Norton carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #43699, divided into 31 chapters and 749 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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The complete text of The Phantom Town Mystery is here, taken from Project Gutenberg eBook #43699 and divided into 749 sections.
This page carries the whole of The Phantom Town Mystery by Carol Norton, not an abridgement or a summary. The text comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #43699, with the Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence removed so that only the work itself remains. It runs to 3743 sentences across 31 chapters. Each chapter stores a record of which sentences cover which part of the work, so nothing is quietly dropped between the source edition and the page you read.
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The Phantom Town Mystery is presented in 31 chapters, each split into sections of 5 sentences for steady reading.
Rather than presenting The Phantom Town Mystery as unbroken pages, the text is grouped into 749 sections of 5 sentences each. A section is short enough to hold in mind at once, which suits a reader working in a second language or returning to a long work in short sittings. The sections are gathered into 31 chapters.
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Every sentence of The Phantom Town Mystery can be played aloud, and so can any single word within it. Tapping a word plays it on its own and opens its dictionary entry, with the pronunciation shown in IPA alongside the part of speech and meaning. The reading voice uses United States English. This matters most for a work of this period, where a reader meets vocabulary and turns of phrase that are no longer in daily use and cannot be guessed reliably from spelling alone.
Questions about reading The Phantom Town Mystery
Common questions about reading The Phantom Town Mystery by Carol Norton on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Is this the complete text of The Phantom Town Mystery?
Yes. All 3743 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #43699 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Which edition of The Phantom Town Mystery is used?
Project Gutenberg eBook #43699, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
How long does The Phantom Town Mystery take to read?
About 311 minutes of reading across 749 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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How to work through The Phantom Town Mystery section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Vocabulary met early in The Phantom Town Mystery
Words and structures a reader meets early in The Phantom Town Mystery, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
- Phantom
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Phantom Town Mystery; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Yacht
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Phantom Town Mystery; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Detective
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Phantom Town Mystery; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
- Seven
- A word that appears in the opening chapter of The Phantom Town Mystery; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.