Collection - Part 2 (1973-1981) - Victoria Holt

Written by Victoria Holt
Read by Virginia Leishman, Donada Peters, Sian Thomas, Eva Haddon, Maureen O’Brien,
Format: MP3
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Unabridged

Victoria Holt Collection - Part 2 (1973-1981)

All these recording were originally from tape and recorded in the 1990’s so that sound is uneven but acceptable, I hope. Most were recorded at 32k or 64K but may have ended as 64K after editing for continuity.

The Curse of the Kings (1973) Virginia Leishman – 11hrs
For centuries the tombs of the Pharaohs were haunted by a deadly curse. And when two eminent archaeologists have died mysteriously, Judith Osmond was certain that it was the curse at work. Then, overnight, her life changed.

There was an unexpected inheritance. Then Tybalt, a young archaeologist and the man she adored, asked her to marry him. But Tybalt planned a honeymoon amid the tombs of the Pharaohs, and suddenly it looked as if the curse of the kings had come to haunt Judith

The House of a Thousand Lanterns (1974) Donada Peters – 12hrs 20min
It was the house she had dreamed of since childhood . . . the house where her worst nightmares were about to come true. . . . The House of a Thousand Lanterns.
Jane Lindsay never dreamed she would be wealthy. Nor that she would fall in love with a man she could not trust. Against the background of nineteenth- century England and Hong Kong, Victoria Holt unfolds the story of a young Englishwoman who found a strange new world . . . .

Lord of the Far Island (1975) Sian Thomas – 9hrs 45min – Chivers Audio Books
The past is never far behind…

Ellen Kellaway, orphaned at age five, was raised by wealthy cousins, but was never allowed to forget that her every advantage was owed to the charity of others. However, when the son of a powerful London family asks for her hand in marriage, her world is opened up to untold wealth and social position. She never imagined that such an unlikely dream would come true.

Despite these wonderful new developments in her life, Ellen continues to be wracked b the bad dreams that have haunted her since childhood. What is the meaning of the lifelong nightmare—the image of an unfamiliar room, a door opening and behind it a dreadful presence? Perhaps it is a message urging her to uncover the secrets of her long-lost family—the secrets of the ancient home of the Kellaways on the Far Island, off the wild coast of Cornwall.

The Pride of the Peacock (1976) Eva Haddon - 12hrs 13min
Set in turn-of-the-century England where a young woman grows up in the shadow of the great estate - and privileged way of life - that was once her family’s birthright. But a unique inheritance compels Jessica Clavering to marry the owner of a fabled opal mine and leads her to faraway Australia. There she will discover the mysteries - and evil - surrounding the greatest opal ever found. There she must confront the danger that lust for the stone has aroused even in her own husband - and there she must find love.

Devil on Horseback (1977) Maureen O’Brien – 12hrs 25min
Minella Maddox grew up on a great English estate. But as the schoolmistress’ daughter, her place was not, and never could be, at beautiful Derringham Manor. And that is where the trouble started, for Derringham’s young heir thought he saw in Minella just the kind of wife he wanted. But a dark and cruelly handsome French count, who always got what he wanted, thought she was just the kind of mistress he had to have. Not for nothing was he called the Devil on Horseback. Yet Minella’s humble heritage was to prove more precious that titles and riches, for it freed her to follow her heart, leading her into adventures and dangers she had never dreamed of. It put her directly in the path of another woman’s hatred, swept her up into the deadly terrors of the French Revolution and, finally, carried her into the arms of the great and powerful man she loved.

My Enemy, the Queen (1978) Eva Haddon – 14hrs 22min
It was Lettice who married the Earl of Leicester, whom Elizabeth I loved. And it was Lettice who was the mother of the Queen’s beloved Earl of Essex. That young earl would one day break the Queen’s heart…..It was always Lettice, the constant spoiler in the triangle of love surrounding Elizabeth…

Spring of the Tiger (1979) do not have
Mask of the Enchantress (1980) do not have

Judas Kiss (1981) Eva Haddon – 12hrs 44min – Chivers Audio Books
Pippa Ewell had left behind the dark and forbidding Greystone Manor — also the memories of Conrad, the handsome stranger who had swept her breathlessly into his arms and heart. But Pippa returned to find the truth behind her sister’s mysterious death. And suddenly the fairy-tale kingdom glittered with evil and danger . . .