Dark Days by Hugh Conway read by Warren Kati | Full Audio Book

Dark Days by Hugh Conway (1847 - 1885)
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Romance, Published 1800 -1900

Read by: Warren Kati in English

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 01 - A Prayer and a Vow
00:29:24 - 02 - A Villain's Blow
01:06:49 - 03 - The Wages of Sin
01:33:59 - 04 - At All Cost - Sleep!
01:57:00 - 05 - A White Tomb
02:19:06 - 06 - The Secret Kept
02:40:48 - 07 - The Meeting of the Snow
03:07:52 - 08 - Flight
03:28:17 - 09 - Safe - and Loved!
03:52:21 - 10 - The Sword Falls
04:16:41 - 11 - Special Pleading
04:35:21 - 12 - Tempted to Dishonour
04:57:24 - 13 - The Last Hope
05:20:53 - 14 - The Criminal Court
05:41:18 - 15 - The Black Cap
06:03:10 - 16 - 'Where are the Snows That Fell Last Year?'
06:24:38 - 17 - Clear Skies

Basil North, a thirty-year-old medical doctor, leads a busy life establishing his medical practice in a large English provincial town. His life has no room for a woman in it until Basil meets the beautiful Phillipa and immediately falls deeply in love. But Phillipa loves him not. She moves to London and, while there, meets and marries another man. The crestfallen Basil, believing that he has lost the only woman in the world whom he can love, sells his medical practice and becomes a morose man without a goal or object in life. After a time, Philippa's scoundrel husband becomes abusive and abandons her. Phillipa then returns to Basil's life, giving him hope for a second chance to woo her. But the next night, Philippa's husband is murdered, and Basil believes Philippa to be the prime suspect. Dark days are ahead as Basil tries to protect his love from the law and Philippa grapples with her conscience. The story explores the power that love has over human nature, right vs. wrong and the inevitable pursuit of justice. Written in 1884 in the first person, Dark Days is an early psychological novel as the author consistently explores the mental states of both Philippa and Basil. - Summary by Warren Kati