Title: The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton's Detective into the Death of President Lincoln
Publisher: Grove Pr
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0802144071
ISBN 13: 9780802144072
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New
Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

When private investigator Michael Croft gets his hands on a nineteenth-century manuscript, written by Pinkerton detective Nicholas Cosgrove, that reveals the incredible cover-up of Lincoln's assassination, Croft is sent back in time to review the evidence, follow the clues, and get to the bottom of the mystery. Reprint.

Review

"Dazzling . . . A superior example of this genre." --Nicholas Meyer, author of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

"George O'Toole has managed to catch us all in his net with The Cosgrove Report. A must for lovers of history and stylish writing, mystery fans, adventure and assassination buffs." --Arlene Francis

"An enthralling, beautifully constructed mystery." --Harriet Van Horne

"O'Toole makes such a convincing eyewitness, I almost suspect he was there. Don't let anyone tell you how The Cosgrove Report ends." --Dilys Winn, Murder Ink; Murderess Ink

"A humdinger of a mystery . . . transports us to a landscape at once familiar and as exotic as a sinister, murderous oz." --The Washington Star

"By carriage, train, boat and balloon, Cosgrove stumbles on one denouement after another . . . novelist George O'Toole . . . follows sleuth and booth with verve, humor and impressive scholarship." --Time

"An absolute delight . . . there are wheels within wheels that bring the fancier of history up with shocking suddenness . . . will appeal to the mystery fan who likes the feeling of being trapped in a mirror maze . . . not only is this good history, it is also good fun." --San Diego Union

"O'Toole takes an era captured in daguerreotype and inflates it with enough life to give us a vividly vicarious understanding of the mid-19th century . . . the reader is brilliantly seduced onto the tightrope between face and fiction." --The Cleveland Press

"Out of the ordinary . . . an imaginative mix of historical research and fictional extrapolation . . . the ending is as surprising as anyone could wish." --Los Angeles Times

"Compelling . . . a stunning conclusion." --Grand Rapids Press

"A gem . . . it truly takes the reader back to relive those days. But don't let anyone tell you how the book ends . . . that would be cruel and inhuman treatment." --Memphis Commercial Appeal

"Moves along at lightning speed . . . sprightly and intriguing . . . what gorgeous entertainment." --Columbus Dispatch

"Fascinating . . . an exciting chronicle of what might have been . . . ending with a twist that should satisfy the most fanatical mystery aficionado." --Civil War Times

"My hat is off to G.J.A. O'Toole. He has come up with an idea for a mystery so good . . . and he has brought it off with a flair that rivals Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time . . . ingenious and plausible . . . the research is meticulous." --Baltimore Sun

"If you think there is no more mystery surrounding that assassination, you are dead wrong . . . a must for anyone to whom history is a wonderful old trunk in the attic, always full of dusty surprises." --Cleveland Plain Dealer

"A political thriller based on a careful reading of history that will make a thrice-told tale seem completely different." --Boston Herald American

"It has everything--mystery, adventure, history, and a delightful unsuspected ending . . . fascinating characters, among them some of Washington's most illustrious men . . . the unique tale of an American Sherlock Holmes." --Seattle Times Magazine

"Startling. Don't tell anyone how it ends." --The Pittsburgh Press

"Contains more factual information about the truth of the assassination and the alleged conspiracy than I have seen in print anywhere . . . Lovers of mystery stories will find O'Toole a master teller of tales. This is the best of historical fiction from historical fact that you're likely to find." --Cincinnati Enquirer

"Rejoice, lovers of mystery and history. You're in for a treat you'll be talking about for a long time." --Newport News Daily Press

"A first-rate thriller by any standards . . . a truly distinctive historical detective story. No one has done it any better." --Savannah News-Press Sunday Magazine

"A tour de force of its kind." --Publishers Weekly

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