The Lost Despatch - Illustrated

by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Overview

The Lost Despatch: We are in Maryland, just outside the Washington. It is December, 1864, a few months before the last year of the U. S. Civil War, but efforts are being potentially hampered by a Confederate spy who is stealing Union Army dispatches. No James Bond here: the spy is a woman, Nancy Newton who, moreover, is a friend of Abraham Lincoln.

Newton's father taught her to ride and shoot and hunt and fish. So, when he was shot leading a charge against the Union, he made his daughter promise to find a way to help the Confederate effort. Though authorities don't want to believe it, Nancy is keeping that promise. One Captain Lloyd is on to her, but his childhood friend, Major Goddard has fallen for Nancy, and just cannot believe she is what Lloyd claims. Twists and turns, action, adventure, danger and romance. A real page burner.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940186755227
Publisher:	New York: D Appleton and Co., 1913
Publication date:	01/20/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Natalie Sumner Lincoln, author of many baffling mystery and detective stories is a product of the national capitol where most of the scenes of her novels are laid. She is one of the comparatively few residents of Washington who was born there and has lived there all her life. She is the only daughter of the late distinguished surgeon Dr NS Lincoln and his wife Jeanie Gould Lincoln, who is well known in the literary world as the author of Marjorie's Quest, An Unwilling Maid, and other romances of a sentimental type. Before she wrote her first book, Miss Lincoln did considerable newspaper work writing articles for New York and other big city papers, as well as for the Washington dailies. She held the position of society editor of the Washington Herald for a considerable period and resigned only after her novels had achieved great success.