The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)

The Edgar Award-winning author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl presents the dramatic true story of the "Baltimore Plot" conspiracy to assassinate the 16th President on the eve of the Civil War, tracing the efforts of detective Allan Pinkerton and widowed private eye Kate Warne to identify and stop the would-be killers. (United States history). Simultaneous.