Lincoln's Grave Robbers
About this book
A dramatic account of the 1875 attempt to steal the 16th president's body describes how a counterfeiting ring plotted to ransom Lincoln's body to secure the release of their imprisoned ringleader and how a fledgling Secret Service and an undercover agent conducted a daring election-night sting operation.
Subjects
- body snatching
- cemeteries
- children's fiction
- counterfeits and counterfeiting
- counterfeits and counterfeiting, fiction
- crime, juvenile literature
- grave robbing
- history
- illinois, history
- illinois, juvenile literature
- juvenile literature
- juvenile nonfiction / history / united states / 19th century
- juvenile nonfiction / law & crime
- juvenile nonfiction / people & places / united states
- lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865
- lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, fiction
- lincoln, abraham, 1809-1865, juvenile literature
- presidents
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- theft
- thieves
- tomb
- tombs
- united states
- united states, fiction
- united states. secret service