Showing posts with label Onyx Plutonian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Onyx Plutonian. Show all posts

WEDNESDAY 14 July @ 7pm: "The Red-Headed League" a Sherlock Holmes Mystery


In this story, Watson takes on a new position, doing clerical work. He found this exciting job through an ad which specified red-headed men only need apply. Out of the blue, the office is closed, and a sign posted "Red-Headed League is dissolved, as of today". Mighty suspicious, eh? Find out more tonight as Onyx Plutonian shares this story in voice.

WEDNESDAY 26 May @ 7pm: Onyx Plutonian with "The Noble Bachelor" ( A Sherlock Holmes Mystery)

The bride of Lord Robert St. Simon disappears right after the wedding. Everything had seemed fine; what could have happened? And where is the bride? Her dress and ring have washed up on the shore!

Join Onyx Plutonian as he relates how Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve this particular case.

Story in voice.

WEDNESDAY 12 May @ 7pm: A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes Tale)


Join librarian Derry McMahon as she relates this Sherlock Holmes mystery. You will have to attend the session to learn how two weddings, the King of Bohemia, and a Jersey girl, all are involved in a different sort of mystery. Holmes and Watson are up to the challenge of piecing the puzzle together. Story in voice.

WEDNESDAY 10 March @ 7pm: Irish Tales with Onyx and Derry


Join your friendly neighborhood tiger and the redheaded librarian for some foin ould tales from Ireland. What will it be tonight? Monsters, banshees, ghosts, princesses, leprechauns? All are possible. Stories read in voice.

WEDNESDAY 10 Feb @ 7pm: "Around the World in 80 Days" - the conclusion!

Onyx Plutonian wraps up the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout tonight. We'll find out what other hazards assail them on their mission to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. They still need to pass through/above North America and get back to England...that is a long leg of the trip. Will they finish in time? Join us to find out!

Did you miss part of the story? You can read it on Project Gutenberg for free! http://www.gutenberg.org/files/103/103-h/103-h.htm

WEDNESDAY: 3 Feb @ 7pm: "Around the World in 80 Days" continues with Onyx Plutonian

Join Onyx for the continuing adventures of Phileas Fogg, and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circle the globe in 80 days. Mr. Fogg is a rather persnickety lad, with peculiar habits, making the journey all the more fun for those of us who do not have to be travelling with him.

The plan is: London to Egypt (by train and boat), Egypt to Bombay (by boat), Bombay to Calcutta (by train), Calcutta to Hong Kong (by boat), Hong Kong to Yokohama (by boat), Yokohama to San Francisco (by boat), San Francisco to NY (by train), and NY to London (by boat and train). All of this has a substantial monetary bet riding on it...will they win??

Come ready for adventure, story read live in a rumbly tigery voice!

WEDNESDAY 27 Jan @ 7pm: Around the World in 80 Days!


Tonight, Onyx Plutonian brings us: Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days"!

Jules Verne’s career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction—stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days—and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot- blooded French manservant, Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters, Sioux attacks, and the dogged Inspector Fix of Scotland Yard to win the extraordinary wager. Combining exploration, adventure, and a thrilling race against time, Around the World in Eighty Days gripped audiences upon its publication and remains hugely popular to this day. Part 1 tonight, read in voice.

This book is available thru Project Gutenberg at: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/103/103-h/103-h.htm

WEDNESDAY 6 Jan @ 7pm: Sherlock Holmes' The Adventure of the Three Students


Join our newest storyteller, Onyx Plutonian, as he embarks on this new hobby with a not-oft told tale from the book 'The Return of Sherlock Holmes'.
"The Adventure of the Three Students" is about a professor at a top university who seeks Holmes' help with a possible case of cheating in a valuable scholarship exam. Always mysterious, always engaging, always fun to guess the ending with a Holmes mystery.