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Robert Barr Episodes

A well known Scottish-Canadian short story writer and novelist.
March 5, 2025

COUNT KONRAD'S COURTSHIP by ROBERT BARR

A knight returns from the Crusades to his castle in Germany to find that the neighboring castle is under seige and that a beautiful 18 year old girl named Brunhilda Bernstein is defending it staunchly, the King having died during the seige and her...

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Jan. 29, 2025

MRS. TREMAIN by ROBERT BARR

A beautiful woman enjoying an ocean cruise with her much older husband  attracts the attention of two men who end up competing for her attention while our narrator tries to talk sense into the younger man.  The characters are well presented...

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Oct. 13, 2024

AN INVITATION by ROBERT BARR

A powerful and cruel Archbishop traveling with a 12 man escort is returning home after demanding allegiance from smaller fiefdoms in the region when he is suddenly surrounded by a force twice his size and given an invitation to dine with the female...

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June 30, 2024

THE WARRIOR MAID OF SAN CARLOS by ROBERT BARR

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June 16, 2024

TRANSFORMATION by ROBERT BARR

Two brothers who own a successful clock/watch shop in Paris are surprised when a disreputable looking man enters the shop- and they both believe has has come to case the shop before robbing it. They contact the police, and the police question...

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May 8, 2024

THE EXPOSURE OF LORD STANSFORD by ROBERT BARR

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Aug. 23, 2023

THE MYSTERY OF THE 500 DIAMONDS (PT 2) by ROBERT BARR

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Aug. 20, 2023

THE MYSTERY OF THE FIVE HUNDRED DIAMONDS (PT 1) by ROBERT BARR

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May 17, 2023

CONVERTED by ROBERT BARR

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Jan. 18, 2023

AN ELECTRICAL SLIP by ROBERT BARR

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Dec. 21, 2022

A DEAL ON CHANGE by ROBERT BARR

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Nov. 2, 2022

OVER THE STELVIO PASS by ROBERT BARR

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Feb. 27, 2022

THE MAN WHO WAS NOT ON THE PASSENGER LIST and SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE …

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March 29, 2021

MS. MCMILLAN & THE HOUR & THE MAN by ROBERT BARR

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