![]() At the same time, Uncle Valentine’s odd behavior leads Emily to suspect that he is involved with body-snatching.Īs dark secrets swirl around her, Emily must figure out who she can trust, in this suspenseful tale “with a wealth of interesting background information” ( Publishers Weekly). Annie has a signed picture of the handsome actor John Wilkes Booth in her room-but there seems to be more of a connection between Booth and the Surratt family than Emily thought…possibly including the plot to kill Lincoln. ![]() First, she wonders about her best friend, Annie Surratt, and the Surratt family. Now, in addition to coping with the loss of her mother, the fourteen-year-old finds herself involved in two mysteries. But after Emily is orphaned-as Washington, DC, is in chaos due to the end of the Civil War-she has nowhere else to go. ![]() A teenage orphan is caught up in President Lincoln’s assassination-and another macabre plot-in this “fast-paced and dramatic” historical novel ( Publishers Weekly).Įmily’s mother always told her that she should avoid Uncle Valentine, a doctor, that he was involved in things she shouldn’t know about. ![]()
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