COMPLETE [ENG] Death of an Airman - St John Sprigg-hok

[lezer]

Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg (*1907 - † 1937)

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://legamus.eu/blog/?p=908

George Furnace, flight instructor in the early 1930's, dies in a plan crash. The inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure. But Edwin Marriott, an Australian bishop and new pupil at the flying school, suspects there is something more sinister going on. "Golden Age" detective story. (Will improve summary at the end)....
(Summary by Anna Simon)

Text source: https://books.google.nl/books?id=ZVphngEACAAJ (please only read from this text!)

Prooflistener: Newgatenovelist


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Intro, Outro and Disclaimer for CC0:
At the beginning of each file please say:
[Section number] of Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg. This Legamus recording may be distributed and adapted freely for any purpose. Read by Anna Simon.
[Chapter title]

At the end of each section please say:
End of [Section number]

At the end of the project please say additionally:
"End of Death of an Airman by Christopher St John Sprigg. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Legamus.eu"

**Please add your name at the beginning or the end, not in both places.

About recording:
Set your recording software to:
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz

Please leave 5 seconds silence at the end of your recording, or 10 seconds for files longer than 30 minutes!

Save files as:
128 kbps MP3
deathairman_##_sprigg.mp3
(all lower-case) where ## is your section number.
(shorten the first part of the filename if too long!)

Add the following tags to your .mp3 file (how you do this depends on which software you use - if you are unsure about ID3 tags, please ask). Please mind upper and lower case!

Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Christopher St John Sprigg
Album: Death of an Airman
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)

How to upload your file:
Use http://upload.legamus.eu/ (MC/BC will provide login-info for you).
When your file is uploaded, you will get a link. Please post the link here.

And now?
Please check for new posts in this thread until your section has been prooflistened.

Happy recording

------------for your MC -----------------------------------
Wiki author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Caudwell
Wiki translator:
Wiki book:
published: 1934 / [language: English]
category: detective / Tags: aeroplanes, murder, detective, Scotland Yard
username: lezer / http://annasimon.nl
Section: 20 / preface: [**PREFACE**] / License: CC0
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[Hokuspokus]

Hi Anna,

I am your MC for this project. I pm you the password for the MW. Happy recording!

[lezer]

Hello Hokuspokus,
Thank you!
I've added the first chapter to the MW:
http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/U ... sprigg.mp3

Perhaps a proof-listener will come along, hopefully. I'll first continue with recording.

[lezer]

Added second chapter:
http://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/U ... sprigg.mp3

[Newgatenovelist]

Hello Anna,

This looks like an exciting book, and the author's Wiki page has intrigued me. I'm willing to DPL (I want to know what happens!), but I must warn you that I'll be a bit slow.

Are you reading from a hard copy? I didn't spot the novel on PG Canada or Australia, or Adelaide, and google very seldom displays properly for me.

Erin

[lezer]

Hello Erin,
That would be great, thank you! I don't need quick PL-ing - sometimes I post a few chapters in quick succession, but that is more because of sudden bursts of enthusiasm etc - no need to follow along at the same speed, there is no deadline!
Yes, I'm reading from a hardcopy. A successful visit to a bookshop when I visited Dublin 2 weeks ago - I have the morbid tendency always to check the year of death of an author I'm not familiar with. I haven't read the whole book yet, but I think it will be good if you like classic 'golden age' detectives.
I'll send you a PM with the password for the MW.

[Hokuspokus]

Great!
We move to Readers Found now.

[Newgatenovelist]

Hi Anna,

It's off to a good start! Chapter 2 is PL OK.

For chapter 1, there's a repetition at 18.20-18.28: 'a welcoming smile on her face'

Checking the year of death doesn't sound morbid. Or if it is, I do the same thing. I'm just waiting for a couple of authors to come into the public domain in the next five years!

There's nothing like browsing in a decent bookshop. I'm glad you spent your time in Dublin wisely.

[lezer]

Thanks for catching that repeat! I've snipped it out, and re-uploaded chapter 1.

I've also added chapter 3 & 4.

[Newgatenovelist]

Chapter 1, 3 and 4 are now PL OK. This is getting exciting!

[lezer]

Chapter 5 is in the MW.

I also like the descriptions of the very primitive way of flying & everything around it, that was still so modern and adventurous at the time.

[Newgatenovelist]

Chapter 5 is PL OK.

I'm enjoying it, too. I realise it might be an odd thing to say about a murder mystery, but it's really glamorous! Realistically I wouldn't want to go anywhere near a 1930s plane, let alone one trying any stunts, but the way this is described is so alluring.

[lezer]

I've added chapter 6 and 7 to the MW.

I agree!

[Newgatenovelist]

Ooooooh, the plot thickens! I hadn't guessed about his wife.

6 and 7 are PL OK.

[lezer]

8 & 9 ready for PL

Some new twists to the story!
And suspected drug smuggling by airplane, a new concept that surprises the detective of the drug squad...

[Newgatenovelist]

Sounds good!

I'm having a bit of trouble downloading. I'll try the time-honoured trick of turning it off and turning it back on again, but if it's still playing up, I might ask you to try uploading again at the weekend...

[lezer]

No, I have the same problem - it's weird.

https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... sprigg.mp3

https://upload.legamus.eu/simple/files/ ... sprigg.mp3

This way directly they seem to work, but not when I put them in the MW...

[lezer]

OK - it seems to work again in the MW as well!

[Newgatenovelist]

Uffff. I don't know what happened there. With any luck, it will behave itself now!

8 and 9 are PL OK. I quite like the name Air Fairies - too bad it was changed!

[lezer]

10 and 11 ready for PL (and the link seems to be OK).

A lot of Frenchmen - but I've decided not to try to do a French-English accent, I wouldn't be able to do it consistently for this long, and it would become laughable.