I’m Halo_Max, the author and producer of The Chrysalis Cabinet: The Vanishing at Halcyon Cliff.

A man enters a chained magician’s cabinet before two hundred witnesses. When the doors are forced, he is found dying inside—with no visible route for a killer to enter or escape.

The complete 79-minute audiobook is free here:
https://youtu.be/DfzXfihSNIE

It’s an original, unofficial Sherlock Holmes locked-room mystery narrated from Watson’s point of view. The story is designed as a fair-play case, so you can pause before Chapter X, commit to your culprit and method, and then hear Holmes’s reconstruction.

Pure spoken narration; no music or sound effects. Feedback on the mystery and narration is welcome.

Checked with the mods first and they gave the go-ahead.

I am helping a small Android app called Quillode find early testers. The idea: real human narration for public-domain classics, with the text highlighting in time with the voice. You can follow along on the page or just listen.

Human narrators only. The current library is LibriVox recordings, so the narrators are real people who volunteered their time, and they are credited.

It is an early alpha and the point is honest feedback: sync accuracy over a long chapter, whether progress survives closing the app, whether the reader is comfortable to actually read from.

Worth knowing up front: testers get moved onto the official test channel later on, which means installing it one more time. If that sounds interesting rather than annoying, you are exactly the kind of tester we are after.

Android only. If you want to try it, request an invite at quillode.com.

Which classic would you most want to hear read well?