The Vault

audiobook

The Vault

by Murray Leinster

EN·~22 minutes·4 chapters

Chapters

4 total
1

THE VAULT

0:02
2

I

8:00
3

II

8:09
4

III

5:59

Description

Under the cloak of darkness, a young intruder named Mike slips through a cracked window into the silent halls of the Whitney Jewelry & Watch Company. The factory, abandoned for the night, is a maze of empty windows, the faint glow of a distant lantern, and the slow, methodical steps of a lone watchman. With rubber‑soled shoes and a flashlight that barely pierces the gloom, Mike moves like a cat, listening for any hint of danger as he makes his way toward the massive vault that stores the plant’s most valuable pieces.

The story unfolds as a tense cat‑and‑mouse game, where patience and precision are Mike’s only allies. Each pause, each shadowed corridor adds to the suspense, while the vault itself looms as a promise of hidden riches—and perhaps something far more unexpected. Listeners are drawn into a world of quiet danger, where every footfall could change the outcome.

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Language

en

Duration

~22 minutes (21K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Pro-Distributors Publishing Company, 1922.

Credits

Roger Frank and Sue Clark

Release date

2021-08-18

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Murray Leinster

Murray Leinster

1896–1975

Best known for brisk, idea-packed science fiction, this prolific American storyteller helped shape classic genre themes long before many of them became standard. Writing under a pen name, he produced an enormous body of fiction and is still remembered for influential stories such as "First Contact" and "Sidewise in Time."

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