The Hour of Peril : The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
In February of 1861, just days before he assumed the presidency, Abraham Lincoln faced a "clear and fullymatured" 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.