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How Kate Warne saved President Lincoln a story about the nation's first woman detective

Relates the events of an important early case for American female detective Kate Warne, describing how she went undercover as a society lady on a mission to thwart an assassination plot against the sixteenth president.

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Main Author:	Van Steenwyk, Elizabeth (Author)
Other Authors:	Belloni, Valentina, 1986- (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago, Illinois : Albert Whitman & Company, 2016.
Subjects:	Warne, Kate, > -1868 > Juvenile nonfiction. Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Assassination attempt, 1861 > Juvenile nonfiction. Women detectives > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Women > Juvenile nonfiction. Detectives > United States > Biography > Juvenile nonfiction. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency > Juvenile nonfiction. Biographies > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Relates the events of an important early case for American female detective Kate Warne, describing how she went undercover as a society lady on a mission to thwart an assassination plot against the sixteenth president.
Physical Description:	32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Audience:	004-008. Grade K to grade 3.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780807541173 0807541176
Author Notes:	Elizabeth Van Steenwyk is the author of more than sixty-five books for children. She lives in California where she and her family run a winery and an alpaca farm. Valentina Belloni attended three years at European Institute of Design in Turin, Italy, and studied juvenile illustration. She currently lives in Turin with her cute, but fat, cats.