The assassin's accomplice : Mary Surratt and the plot to kill Abraham Lincoln / Kate Clifford Larson.

Author: Larson, Kate Clifford.

Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2008.

ISBN: 9780465038152 (alk. paper)
0465038158 (alk. paper)

Description: xix, 263 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Subject: Surratt, Mary E. (Mary Eugenia), 1820-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Assassination.
Conspiracies Washington (D.C.).
Trials (Assassination) Washington (D.C.).

Contents: Devoted body and soul to the cause -- Creating a life, building the nest -- Rebels, spies, and couriers -- Mary Surratt . . . kept the nest that hatched the egg -- The assassin's accomplice -- A shrewd witness -- The mater familias of the criminals -- The case for the defense -- The verdict : swift and deadly -- Scenes at the scaffold -- Epilogue : American tragedy or American justice?