Hiding in Plain Sight

America's first female detective Kate Warne's mission? Protect president-elect Abraham Lincoln from Southern rebels bent on assassinating him before his inauguration.

Abraham Lincoln faced a dangerous and uncertain future when he left Springfield, Illinois, for his inauguration in Washington, DC. Luckily for him, detective Kate Warne had his back, even if he didn't know it yet.

Hired by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, Kate Warne used her exceptional acting and conversational skills to pose as a Southern lady and uncover the rebel plot to kill Lincoln in Baltimore, the only Southern city on his route to DC. Catching a train to New York, Kate tried her best to convince Lincoln's staff that he faced a deadly welcome in Baltimore. Though men in this era were often reluctant to listen to a woman, even one representing the famous Pinkerton Agency, Kate eventually got the president-elect to agree to her secret plan. Lincoln would travel disguised as her sick brother on a night train from Philadelphia, covertly making his way through Baltimore in the wee hours of the morning and then on to Washington. Would they make it? Would someone leak their movements to the assassins?