USA Today devotes several column inches to a book that explores the “Baltimore Plot” to kill president-elect Lincoln and describes “how detective Allan Pinkerton and America’s first female private eye, a 23-year-old widow named Kate Warne, saved Lincoln from assassination in 1861.”

The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War by Daniel Stashower (Macmillan/Minotaur; Macmillan Audio; Thorndike Large Print) was released on Tuesday.

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