The Lost Despatch: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Lost Despatch, credited to Natalie Sumner Lincoln, 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 Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Read in English by James R. Hedrick. A story constructed with Washington as the central locus, and with the web of circumstance weaving itself around Miss Nancy Newton, a rebel spy who falls into danger through the strange disappearance of an important despatch. Miss Newton, made to swear allegiance to the Confederacy by her dying father, acts as a bearer of secret information to Richmond. Loved by a Union officer, Major Robert Goddard, she finds herself in a distressing predicament upon her arrest under the double and sinister charge of treason and murder. (Summary by Boston Transcript quoted in The Book review Digest Ninth Annual Compilation, 1913) Please note that certain epithets used may be considered offensive to modern readers.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Lost Despatch
• Author credits: Natalie Sumner Lincoln
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 27
• Listed recording duration: 6:27:03

Catalogue topics

• romance
• spy
• civil war
• historical fiction

Opening tracks: first 24 of 27

1. 01 - The Pigeon's Flight — 9:09
2. 02 - Brains vs. Brawn — 12:55
3. 03 - A Knot of Ribbon Blue — 13:49
4. 04 - Banquo's Ghost — 20:16
5. 05 - A Scrap of Paper — 5:53
6. 06 - The Signal Light — 6:41
7. 07 - The Mischances of a Night — 8:13
8. 08 - A Voice from the Past — 13:45
9. 09 - Outwitted — 14:29
10. 10 - The Fortunes of War — 9:42
11. 11 - Who Laughs Last — 22:04
12. 12 - The Fight at the Ford — 9:29
13. 13 - For the Cause — 18:34
14. 14 - When Tragedy Grins — 11:51
15. 15 - Nemesis — 21:21
16. 16 - A Tangled Skein — 8:37
17. 17 - In Close Confinement — 9:35
18. 18 - When Doctors Disagree — 12:21
19. 19 - Groping in the Dark — 13:23
20. 20 - The Turning Point — 16:30
21. 21 - The Trial — 23:43
22. 22 - Weaving the Web — 19:22
23. 23 - Sensational Evidence — 14:24
24. 24 - A Startling Discovery — 15:13

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