The Murder of Willie Lincoln: A Novel (The John Hay Mysteries 1)
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The Murder of Willie Lincoln is an exciting historical fiction debut by award-winning political journalist Burt Solomon. 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 Lincolns will and soul are tested when tragedy strikes the White House as Willie Lincoln the love and shining light in the presidents 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 aideand almost a sonto investigate Willies death. Some see Hay as a gadfly--adventurous incisive lusty reflective skeptical even cynicalbut he loves the president and so seeks the truth behind the boys death. And so as we follow Hay in his investigation we are shown the loftiest and lowest corners of Washington City from the presidents office and the gentlemans dining room at Willards Hotel to the alley hovels wartime hospitals and the dome-less Capitols 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.
