The Suicide of Abraham Lincoln

Ill and facing eminent death, Lincoln's suicide must look like assassination, but can his Secret Service pull that off while battling the Knights of the Golden Circle who plot to continue the war by unleashing terrorism? Conspirator John Surratt flees, leaving his mother to face the gallows. Who would marry this dishonorable man? A few years later, after meeting Surratt in a bookstore, young Mary Victorine Hunter solves the mystery of the suicide of Abraham Lincoln.

President Lincoln tells stories and has a girlfriend. See jealous Mary Lincoln's final act of revenge. Watch thespian John Wilkes Booth act his most dramatic scene ever. Voices from the past speak to you in real history chapters to substantiate the assertion made in the novel's title. Follow along As Mary Victorine Hunter, conspirator John Surratt's love interest, solves the mystery of the suicide of Abraham Lincoln.

Read along as the Secret Service fights the Knights of the Golden Circle, who conspire to unleash terrorism on post-war America with plots to behead the Federal government, dump anthrax over Manhattan Island, and carry out a Lawrence, Kansas like raid in West Virginia. Ride with John Singleton Mosby as he and his Confederate guerrillas fight one last battle weeks after the war ends. Hear Lincoln propose solutions that may have avoided future failings of the American Experience.

View actual court testimony that says the man shot at Garrett's farm was named "Boyd," not "Booth," and learn how Booth's body was eventually switched for Boyd's. Learn why an enraged Boston Corbett shot the man in the barn in the first place. Visit a Victorian ball and learn how to hold your fan. Attend a secret initiation ceremony of the Knights of the Golden Circle.
Study conspirator George Adzerodt's actual lost confession and learn the names of assassination conspirators you've never heard of before. Read actual quotes and understand why the novel says a "skeletal" Lincoln would conspire with others to commit assisted suicide on that Good Friday and read his last edict, Secret Service Order No. 1.

The author started with 40 academic books about Abraham Lincoln, then found about the same number of original, copyright-expired sources. Picture John Wilkes Booth in the barn in Virginia - he's dressed in a black suit, right? No. Lincoln's close friend writes Booth and Herold were both dressed in gray Confederate uniforms. Did you know that after being shot, Booth's body was put on a wagon and the wagon, driver, and Federal Detective disappeared with it for 10 hours? Later, they told the larger group they got lost. And that night the wagon driver was murdered. Now there's both real history and a mystery.

At the center of the novel is the romance between Mary Victorine Hunter and John Surratt. Their mutual love of mystery novels and some rather shady characters strange interest in helping Mary Victorine become one leads the novel to connect the history dots and results in the premise of the rather shocking title of the book.

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