Welcome, |  The story of the other plot to kill Lincoln
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Daniel Stashower  Discussing The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot
to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War  7 p.m. Feb. 6  Highland
Park Public Library, 494 Laurel Ave.   (847) 432-0216;  Just in
time to make the most of our national Abraham Lincoln moment,
two-time Edgar Award-winning author Daniel Stashower has written
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the
Civil War.  The nonfiction book explores the controversial
Baltimore Plot, in which assassins planned to kill the
president-elect when he passed through Baltimore from
Springfield on his way to Washington for his inauguration. The
real-life scenario involves Lincoln, the famed private detective
Alan Pinkerton and Kate Warne, his top female agent. We caught
up with Stashower before his Feb. 6 discussion of Hour of Peril
in the Highland Park Public Library.  Q: What got you interested
in this story?  A: I overheard