The Cosgrove Report: Being the Private Inquiry of a Pinkerton's Detective Into the Death of President LincolnThe Cosgrove Report is both a gripping historical thriller and a new and entirely plausible solution to that still unanswered question: Why was Abraham Lincoln murdered? Republished to coincide with the bicentennial of Lincoln s birth, this is a novel of immense power and imagination, based on meticulous research into the government s official records of the assassination and the forgotten memoirs of many eyewitnesses. The novel opens when a recently