Dr. Fraser is the man who hears Mr. Bingham's deathbed confession that Mary Surratt divulged a truth during the Lincoln assassination trial that would rock the foundation of the nation. So he partners with a colored newspaper man and sets out to find out who was really the person pulling the str...
The address seemed to promise French benevolence toward American supplicants. Cook was on edge. He had barely slept, his mind cycling through the different ways to explain Joshua’s troubles and ask for Clemenceau’s help. A scratchy, anxious feeling was making him irritable. He worried about the w...
But the evidence shows that he only oppressed the Negro; that he only conspired with the rebel; that he only betrayed the Union party; that he only attempted to overthrow the Republic—of course he goes unwhipped of justice. NEW YORK INDEPENDENT, DECEMBER 12, 1867 IMPEACHMENT WAS DEAD. So said T...
He looked more than a bit off his feed. “Late night?” Cook asked. “Don’t ask,” came the muttered reply. The well-dressed man nodded at Cook. “Christy Walsh,” he said. “Yeah, yeah,” Babe said. He worked a toothpick into his rear molars, then looked at the toothpick to gauge his success. “Christy h...
Fraser said. “What can you tell me about Booth’s money?” After two days in Weichmann’s meticulous archive, Fraser was on a first-name basis with the entire Weichmann family. His work was raising more questions than it answered. Weichmann had come home early so they could confer before supper. The...