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The hour of peril : the secret plot to murder Lincoln before the Civil War / Daniel Stashower.

by Stashower, Daniel.

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Thorndike Press, c2013.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination attempt, 1861.

Presidents -- Assassination attempts -- United States.

Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.

9781410456311 (hc.)

1410456315 (hc.)

Gale CENGAGE Learning large print ed.

673 p. (large print) : ill. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Minotaur, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.

Long, narrow boxes -- The cooper and the rail-splitter. His hour had not yet come ; The apprentice ; How I became a detective ; Ardent spirits ; Pink lady ; Let us dare to do our duty ; It's coming yet -- Plums and nuts. A pig-tail whistle ; Mobtown ; Suspicions of danger ; Hostile organizations ; The man and the hour ; If I alone must do it ; A postponed rebellion ; A rabid rebel ; A single red ballor ; Whitewash ; The music agent ; A few determined men ; An assault of some kind ; The assassin's knife -- The martyr and the scapegoat. The flight of Abraham ; The hour of peril ; Some very tall swearing ; An infamous lie.

The riveting true story of the "Baltimore Plot." 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.

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