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The murder of Willie Lincoln
- Title
- The murder of Willie Lincoln / Burt Solomon.
- Author
- Solomon, Burt
- Publication
- New York : Forge, 2017.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 17-3560 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 302 pages : illustration; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Washington City, 1862: The United States lies in tatters, and there seems no end to the war. Abraham Lincoln, the legitimate President of the United States, is using all his will to keep his beloved land together. But Lincoln's will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln, the love and shining light in the president's heart, is taken by typhoid fever. But was this really the cause of his death? A message arrives, suggesting otherwise. Lincoln asks John Hay, his trusted aide--and almost a son--to investigate Willie's death. Some see Hay as a gadfly--adventurous, incisive, lusty, reflective, skeptical, even cynical--but he loves the president and so seeks the truth behind the boy's death. And so, as we follow Hay in his investigation, we are shown the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City, from the president's office and the gentleman's dining room at Willard's Hotel to the alley hovels, wartime hospitals, and the dome-less Capitol's vermin-infested subbasement. We see the unfamiliar sides of a grief-stricken president, his hellcat of a wife, and their two surviving and suffering sons, and Hay matches wits with such luminaries as General McClellan, William Seward, and the indomitable detective Allan Pinkerton. What Hay discovers has the potential of not only destroying Lincoln, but a nation"--
- Series Statement
- A John Hay mystery
- Solomon, Burt. John Hay mystery.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Note
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Call Number
- JFE 17-3560
- ISBN
- 9780765385833
- 076538583X
- LCCN
- 2016043547
- OCLC
- 2016043547
- Author
- Solomon, Burt, author.
- Title
- The murder of Willie Lincoln / Burt Solomon.
- Publisher
- New York : Forge, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- A John Hay mysterySolomon, Burt. John Hay mystery.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Solomon, Burt. Murder of Willie Lincoln First edition. New York : Forge, 2017 9780765385840 (DLC) 2016050599
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-3560