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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Something New: Chapter 4

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of P.G. Wodehouse’s Something New. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

$36 trillion were lost in stocks and bonds this year, but in the art market.

0:06.2

The average piece is selling for 26% more at auction than last year.

0:11.6

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0:16.4

In their last three sales, resulted in 13, 17, and 21% net returns to investors.

0:23.3

Let's go to masterworks.com and use promo code Vox.

0:37.5

Chapter 4

0:40.1

In the morning following Aileen's visit to Joan Valentine, Ash sat in his room, the

0:45.8

morning post on the table before him.

0:49.4

The heady influence of Joan had not yet ceased to work within him, and he proposed in

0:55.4

pursuance of his promise to her to go carefully through the columns of advertisements, however

1:01.0

pessimistic he might feel concerning the utility of that action.

1:06.8

His first glance assured him that the vast fortunes of the philanthropists whose acquaintance

1:12.2

had already made in print were not yet exhausted.

1:16.6

Nine McNeil still dangled his gold before the public, Sotidankus Bruce, Sotid Duncan McFarland,

1:23.8

and Wallace McIntosh and Donald McNab.

1:27.3

They still had the money, and they still wanted to give it away.

1:31.9

Ash was reading listlessly down the column when, from the massive advertisements, one of

1:37.8

an unusual sort detached itself.

1:41.4

Wanted, a young man of good appearance who was poor and reckless to undertake a delicate

1:47.9

and dangerous enterprise, good pay for the right man, applied between the hours of ten

1:52.9

and twelve at offices of main price, main price and bull, three Denver Street, strand.

2:00.3

And as he read it, half past ten struck on the little clock on his mantelpiece.

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