The Hour of Peril, The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
Language: English
Published by Minotaur Books, NY, 2013
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Minotaur Books, NY. A study of the 13 day train journey Abraham Lincoln took from Springfield to Washington DC in order to be sworn in as President and a plot to assassinate Lincoln before he could arrive. Using the notes from Alan Pickerton and Lincoln’s private secretary Stashower is able to rebuild the actions of the detectives, the plotters and Lincoln. Very good copy of the first edition in a good dust jacket. The dust jacket has a circled ‘156’ written in a black marker on the back of the dust jacket. 354 pages.
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- Title
- The Hour of Peril, The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
- Author
- Daniel Stashower
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books, NY
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- Very good
- Dust jacket
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312600224
- ISBN 13
- 9780312600228
- Edition
- 1st Edition
“It's history that reads like a race-against-the-clock thriller.” —Harlan Coben
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.
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013
Winner of the 2014 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
Winner of the 2013 Agatha Award for Best Nonfiction
Winner of the 2014 Anthony Award for Best Critical or Non-fiction Work
Winner of the 2014 Macavity Award for Best Nonfiction
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About the Author
DANIEL STASHOWER is an acclaimed biographer and narrative historian and winner of the Edgar, Agatha, and Anthony awards, and the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective Fiction. His work has appeared inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian Magazine,AARP: The Magazine, and National Geographic Traveler as well as other publications.
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