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The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Minotaur Books
February 2014
On Sale: January 28, 2014
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln
368 pages
ISBN: 1250042666
EAN: 9781250042668
Kindle: B008BU73UG
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Non-Fiction History | Non-Fiction Biography
Daniel Stashower, the two-time Edgar award–winning author of
The Beautiful Cigar Girl, uncovers the riveting true
story of the "Baltimore Plot," an audacious conspiracy to
assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War in
THE HOUR OF PERIL. In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the
presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and
fully-matured" threat of assassination as he traveled by
train from Springfield to Washington for his inauguration.
Over a period of thirteen days the legendary detective Allan
Pinkerton worked feverishly to detect and thwart the plot,
assisted by a captivating young widow named Kate Warne,
America's first female private eye. As Lincoln's train rolled inexorably toward "the seat of
danger," Pinkerton struggled to unravel the ever-changing
details of the murder plot, even as he contended with the
intractability of Lincoln and his advisors, who refused to
believe that the danger was real. With time running out
Pinkerton took a desperate gamble, staking Lincoln's
life—and the future of the nation—on a "perilous feint" that
seemed to offer the only chance that Lincoln would survive
to become president. Shrouded in secrecy—and, later, mired
in controversy—the story of the "Baltimore Plot" is one of
the great untold tales of the Civil War era, and Stashower
has crafted this spellbinding historical narrative with the
pace and urgency of a race-against-the-clock thriller.
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