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The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War

The Hour of Peril 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. Over a period of 13 days in 1861, a legendary detective worked feverishly to thwart the plot, assisted by America's first female private eye. Full description

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