MHT05 - Mystery History Theater; The Hit on Abe series

This episode was originally posted by Vyzygoth on his Alembic Files site in February 2015.

Lafayette Baker’s accusation that Secretary of War Stanton led the conspiracy to whack Lincoln. Those in deep with Stanton numbered politicians, army and naval officers, prominent bankers, newspaper reporters and assorted civilians.

Baker rightfully fears his own assassination. A nineteenth-century hitman facilitates the faked death and release of a convicted conspirator jailed in Fort Jefferson on the Dry Tortugas. He is also present at three suspicious deaths—one of which is Baker’s. He loses the trail of the released conspirator, who assists Booth’s wife in getting to San Francisco with a cache of gold and silver for a rendezvous with a man named John Byron Wilkes and a watery passage to India.

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