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Lincoln's grave robbers /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Scholastic Press, c2012.Description: 214 p. : ill., ports, plans ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0545405726
  • 9780545405720
  • 9780545552547 (school market)
  • 0545552540 (school market)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.7 23
LOC classification:
  • E457.52 .S54 2012
Contents:
Prologue : midnight escape -- The operative -- The pull -- Coney Men vs. the Secret Service -- Big Jim -- First try -- Boodle game -- Prince of ropers -- The trap -- Last details -- Overnight train -- Election Day -- Night at the monument -- Devilish work -- Search begins -- Back to the hub -- Gathering evidence -- Compromise verdict -- Epilogue : final resting place? -- Body snatcher bonus section.
Summary: A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Copy number Status Barcode
JF JF Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction J SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 34517000482888

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-211) and index.

Prologue : midnight escape -- The operative -- The pull -- Coney Men vs. the Secret Service -- Big Jim -- First try -- Boodle game -- Prince of ropers -- The trap -- Last details -- Overnight train -- Election Day -- Night at the monument -- Devilish work -- Search begins -- Back to the hub -- Gathering evidence -- Compromise verdict -- Epilogue : final resting place? -- Body snatcher bonus section.

A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.

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