The Missing Initial: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Missing Initial, 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 Missing Initial by Natalie Sumner Lincoln. Read in English by James R. Hedrick. The reader of mystery stories will have a delectable time in following through the twists of the plot of this novel. Natalie Sumner Lincoln has in it written a murder mystery which fully lives up to her reputation as a writer of absolutely baffling and fascinating stories. The secret is kept safe until the very closing chapters and the hide-and-seek urge of suspicion holds one on every page. At the book’s opening the heroine, a reporter on one of the big newspapers of Washington D.C., sees from her apartment window a man stabbed in the back at night in another apartment across the courtyard. The victim is a rich man, well-know in Washington’s business and social circles. Who killed him and what was the motive? It is in the social and diplomatic sets that the search unfolds. Norma Page works with the detectives and plays a leading part in the final solution of the mystery. The criminal proves to be able in an amazing degree to cover up his tracks before being finally run to earth, and suspense runs high. Throughout there is the pleasing thread of Norma’s love story. The title of the novel refers to a torn handkerchief from which an initial is missing and which is an essential clue. - Summary by The Book Jacket

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Missing Initial
• Author credits: Natalie Sumner Lincoln
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 21
• Listed recording duration: 7:19:01

Catalogue topics

• Detective
• murder mystery
• inspector mitchell
• murder investigation
• washington d.c.

Track guide

1. 01 - The Sword of Damocles — 9:08
2. 02 - The Crimson Stain — 18:10
3. 03 - By Special Messenger — 16:54
4. 04 - The First Clue — 21:22
5. 05 - The Cut Direct — 20:18
6. 06 - Ten Thousand Dollars Reward — 21:53
7. 07 - Eavesdroppers — 18:37
8. 08 - Complications — 20:24
9. 09 - Fencing — 24:54
10. 10 - On Guard — 23:19
11. 11 - Thrust and Parry — 24:41
12. 12 - A Game Two Can Play — 22:41
13. 13 - The Second Initial — 21:18
14. 14 - Suspicion — 22:36
15. 15 - Innuendoes — 21:59
16. 16 - The Mended Pillow — 22:12
17. 17 - The House in the Suburbs — 26:16
18. 18 - A Pawn in the Game — 24:43
19. 19 - The Spider's Web — 19:55
20. 20 - Foiled — 10:31
21. 21 - The Solitary Initial — 27:10

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