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Also by Jonathan F. Putnam:

Final Resting Place, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Perish from the Earth, June 2018
Trade Size / e-Book
Perish from the Earth, July 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
These Honored Dead, August 2016
Hardcover / e-Book

PERISH FROM THE EARTH
By: Jonathan F. Putnam

A Lincoln and Speed Mystery #2
Crooked Lane Books
June 2018
On Sale: June 12, 2018
Featuring: Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 1683316088
EAN: 9781683316084
Kindle: B01N7JWACT
Trade Size / e-Book
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Mystery Historical

A murder aboard a steamboat forces Abraham Lincoln to make a fateful choice—one on which the future of the nation may hang, if his client doesn’t first—in this gripping follow-up to critically acclaimed author Jonathan Putnam’s “masterfully crafted” (Alex Grecian) debut, These Honored Dead.

Newly minted trial lawyer Abraham Lincoln is riding the circuit, traveling by carriage with other lawyers and a judge to bring justice to the remote parts of Illinois. Meanwhile, Lincoln’s close friend Joshua Speed steams up the Mississippi River aboard a steamboat owned by Speed’s father. Suddenly, his journey is interrupted when a rigged card game turns to violence—and then murder.

Speed enlists Lincoln to defend the accused, but soon they come to discover that more than just the card games are crooked aboard the Speed family’s ship. As the day of judgment hurtles toward them, Lincoln must fight to save the life of his client while also preserving the cause he holds so dear.

Meticulously researched and deftly plotted, Jonathan F. Putnam’s second Lincoln and Speed mystery, Perish from the Earth, revolves around a true historical murder that, while nearly forgotten today, was one of the most infamous crimes of the nineteenth century and played a key role in driving the nation toward civil war.