Dirty Fred, the Captain - Audiobook

"- Sir! I came for my knife! - Where did you leave it? - In some sailor's bag. - What kind of knife was it? - Steel. Narrow blade, slightly bent. Didn't you see it? - Let's wait... Just slowly, please... What was the handle like? - Shell. - How many parts? - Made of one piece. - Then it's okay. I have the knife! - Where? - In my back." This is how Dirty Fred, the Captain, a novel written under the pseudonym Rejtő Jenő P. Howard, begins. It was published in 1940. You can now hear András Kern in the Hungaroton Rejtő series in his inimitable, entertaining performance. András Kern on the Jenő Rejtő series: At first, I wasn't one of the Rejtő fans, although it became fashionable again around my adolescence: everyone read him in the sixties. Of course, I knew a few details by heart, my friends kept quoting him. Then, as I played in his cabaret jokes later (on television and on stage), I started to take an interest in him, I learned about his fate, his biography, I had already read him; but now that we are turning about eight of his novels into audiobooks: now I have really gotten to know him... and I can say, he is great! Adventurous, twisty, good-humored (so to speak: laugh-out-loud), sometimes lyrical and constantly interesting... And the most important thing I realized (and this may be obvious): Jenő Rejtő is a very good writer! Although he disguises himself as a pulp novelist, he writes beautifully here and there, with beautiful words, good sentences, a dizzying sense of rhythm, his ability to create atmosphere is like that of the greatest... And I didn't know this, and I don't think any of you did either: so listen to it, it will be an experience! 1. Chapter One: Sir! I have come for my knife! 2. Chapter Two: Waiter José was asleep. 3. Chapter Two: Ten minutes later, no passengers were outside their cabins. 4. Chapter Two: But Jimmy the Earless was made of harder wood than the steward. 5. Chapter Two: When did you enter the vagabondage profession? 6. Chapter Three: The Honolulu-Star moved slowly. 7. Chapter Four: Jimmy the Earless's Diary I. 8. Chapter Five: The policeman gently took the boy's arm. 9. Chapter Six: Jimmy the Earless's Diary II. 10. Chapter Seven: His Majesty did not fall for it. 11. Chapter Eight: Jimmy the Earless's Diary III-IV. 12. Chapter Nine: Menacing figures approached slowly. 13. Chapter Ten: His Majesty I-ső Jimmy the Earless's Diary V. 14.. Chapter Eleven: The Great Buffalo squeezed the prince's neck. 15. Chapter Twelve: His Majesty, Jimmy I-ső Fülig's Diary VI-VII. 16. Chapter Thirteen: His Majesty came to his senses in the dark corridor. 17. Chapter Fourteen: His Majesty, Jimmy I-ső Fülig's Diary VIII. 18. Chapter Fifteen: The whole thing seemed like a distorted dream. 19. Chapter Sixteen: His Majesty, Jimmy I-ső Fülig's Diary IX. 20. Chapter Seventeen: The prince was tied up. 21. Chapter Eighteen: His Majesty, Jimmy I-ső Fülig's Diary X. 22. Chapter Nineteen: How did the situation change so much in such a short time: instead of a death sentence, a marriage? 23. Chapter Twenty: The prince stormed out of the great hall. 24. Chapter Twenty-one: The eager Mocsing had not left his cabin for days. 25. Chapter Twenty-Two: His Majesty, I. Jimmy Fülig's Diary XI. 26. Chapter Twenty-Three: His Majesty's boat was making its way towards the island on the sultry, foggy ocean. 27. Chapter Twenty-Four: The Merciful arrived at the port of Almira with the American cruiser and awaited the Radzeer. 28. Chapter Twenty-Five: Jimmy Fülig's Letter to the Monarch XII.