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http://legamus.eu/blog/?p=126
Text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200671.txt (please only read from this text!)The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaiʻi for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery. (Summary by Wikipedia)
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Bit Rate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
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housewithoutkey_##_biggers.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is your section number. (e.g. housewithoutkey_01_biggers.mp3)
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Title: ## - [Section title]
Artist: Earl Derr Biggers
Album: The House Without a Key
Genre: Speech
Track Number: Section Number (if sections are numbered from 1, section +1, if sections are numbered from 0)
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Solo / Group project?: Solo
Book Title: The House Without a key
Author: Earl Derr Biggers
Dates of birth and death of author: August 24, 1884 – April 5, 1933
Language: English
Date of first publication: 1925
Number of sections the project will have: (please note that the sections should be less than 70 minutes long) 23
Does the project have a preface that will be recorded as a separate section? no
Category (Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama): mystery
Tags that describe the book (like: place, time, historical people/events, mystery, fairy tale, horror/ghost story, philosophy, ... : 1920, mystery, Hawaii
Summary for the catalog (from Wikipedia or written by you): The novel deals with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaiʻi for a number of years. The main character is the victim's nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery. (Summary by Wikipedia)
Online text source: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200671.txt
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). It sounds very nice, and if I was not already far behind on all kinds of things, I'd want to DPL... Well, I will for the next one maybe 
Thanks 
Hopefull I will be able to upload a few chapters before then though.
I'm glad it doesn't get that warm over here to often.