Title: The assassin's accomplice
Description: Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, *The Assassin's Accomplice* tells the gripping story of the conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln through experience of its only female participant.

Confederate sympathizer Mary Surratt ran a boarding house in Washington, and the depth of her complicity in the murder of President Lincoln has been debated since she was arrested on April 17, 1865.

Calling upon long-lost interviews, confessions, and court testimony, historian Kate Clifford Larson magnificently captures how Surratt's actions defied nineteenth-century norms of piety and allegiance. A riveting account of espionage and murder, The Assassin's Accomplice offers a revealing examination of America's most remembered assassination. (from Amazon)
Subjects: Assassination, Conspiracies, Trials (Assassination)
Places: Washington (D.C.)
People: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Mary E. Surratt (1820-1865)
Time periods: Civil War