The Cosgrove report: being the private inquiry of a Pinkerton's detective into the death of President Lincoln by Nicholas Cosgrove: edited and verified by Michael Croft, Col., U.S. Army (ret.): an annotated novel
✍ Scribed by G.J.A. O'Toole
- Book ID
- 100195325
- Publisher
- Grove Atlantic;Grove Press
- Year
- 1979,2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 346 KB
- Edition
- Reprint
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802144072
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✦ Synopsis
The Cosgrove Report is both a gripping historical thriller and a new and entirely plausible solution to that still unanswered question: Why was Abraham Lincoln murdered? Republished to coincide with the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth, this is a novel of immense power and imagination, based on meticulous research into the government’s official records of the assassination and the forgotten memoirs of many eyewitnesses. The novel opens when a recently discovered nineteenth-century manuscript falls into the hands of modern-day private investigator Michael Croft. His assignment is to verify the historical accuracy of the papers, which reveal the shocking cover-up of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the alleged capture and death of John Wilkes Booth. The manuscript itself, written by Pinkerton detective Nicholas Cosgrove, plunges both Croft and the reader back into post-Civil War Washington, where Cosgrove is hired by Secretary of War Edwin Stanton to...