The Expressman and the Detective: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Expressman and the Detective, credited to Allan Pinkerton, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton. Read by Pete Williams. Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished the name, Pinkerton himself was one of the original human rights advocates. He was a dear friend to John Brown, an advisor to Abraham Lincoln, and 80 years ahead of his time in hiring female detectives. He was also stubborn, irascible, and an egomaniac. The Expressman and the Detective (1874) is Pinkerton's first attempt at putting his real-life experiences into novel form. Though many later works attributed to Pinkerton are understood to have been ghostwritten, this is the work of the man the London Times calls "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious." (Summary by Pete Williams)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Expressman and the Detective
• Author credits: Allan Pinkerton
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 7:23:08

Catalogue topics

• mystery

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Preface — 2:25
2. 01 - Chapter I — 11:20
3. 02 - Chapter II — 12:24
4. 03 - Chapter III — 15:10
5. 04 - Chapter IV — 16:40
6. 05 - Chapter V — 10:58
7. 06 - Chapter VI — 14:17
8. 07 - Chapter VII — 12:14
9. 08 - Chapter VIII — 14:09
10. 09 - Chapter IX — 12:32
11. 10 - Chapter X — 13:02
12. 11 - Chapter XI — 12:17
13. 12 - Chapter XII — 11:45
14. 13 - Chapter XIII — 12:33
15. 14 - Chapter XIV — 15:24
16. 15 - Chapter XV — 16:42
17. 16 - Chapter XVI — 14:28
18. 17 - Chapter XVII — 14:34
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII — 22:58
20. 19 - Chapter XIX — 14:24
21. 20 - Chapter XX — 16:23
22. 21 - Chapter XXI — 20:58
23. 22 - Chapter XXII — 22:37
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII — 15:07

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