Around the World in Eighty Days, Part 2: The Detective · Jules Verne — Mono Noir Classics

THE CLASSIC, FULLY DRAMATIZED. Part 2 of 11: The Detective. Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days in a new English translation made for this production directly from Verne's French, acted by a full cast with music and sound.

The wager is soon all London's argument: the newspapers, the Royal Geographical Society and the floor of the Exchange weigh in, and Mr. Fogg is quoted like a racehorse. Then a telegram from Suez reaches Scotland Yard: the detective Fix is certain that the gentleman on the steamer Mongolia is the man who robbed the Bank of England. Passepartout, who cannot keep anything to himself, is the one person Fix needs to talk to, and Mr. Fogg, who has noticed nothing, keeps to his timetable across the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

In this part:
0:00 Introduction
0:58 Chapter V: In which a new stock appears on the London market
8:29 Chapter VI: In which Fix, the detective, shows a very natural impatience
18:15 Chapter VII: Which shows once again the uselessness of passports in police matters
24:19 Chapter VIII: In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than he should
31:35 Chapter IX: In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean prove propitious to the designs of Phileas ...

Listen in order: this is Part 2 of 11. Next: Part 3, The Elephant.

Jules Verne's novel, complete and in order, in our own English translation from his French (Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, 1872-73), made by Mono Noir with AI assistance. A few words of period language that are unkind to the peoples they describe are softened; Verne's own slips of fact and arithmetic are left as he wrote them.

This audio drama uses an AI-assisted English translation, AI-generated voices, music, sound effects and artwork. All spoken performances in this edition use ElevenLabs V4.

The complete eight-hour audiobook, with all 37 chapters, is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEW7-CDeu8 (this part starts at 0:43:28). Read along with the full text of every part at https://matezz.com/classics/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/