From School Library Journal
YA-The fifth book in the series is set just after Lincoln's presidential election. The Southern states are calling for secession and there is talk of war. Bronwyn Llyr, the niece of Seneca Falls, NY, librarian Glynis Tryon, has left school and taken a job as an operative with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Her first assignment is to accompany a railroad owner to Alabama and learn about possible plans to confiscate the train line. Bronwyn accidentally overhears a conversation about a secret plan called Equus, which she correctly fears is an assassination plot. When her identity becomes suspect, she flees north and meets up with a young man escaping involuntary servitude in the Mobile shipyards. Together they ride freight cars to Virginia, and then steal a small boat to sail up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore. Bronwyn thinks the assassination will take place when the president-elect passes through the city, and she relies on old friends of her aunt to help foil the plan. Teens will enjoy watching the two young people try to figure out their deepening relationship as they strive to save the life of Abraham Lincoln.
Penny Stevens, Centreville Regional Library, Centreville, VACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist
Glynis Tryon, the intrepid Seneca Falls librarian, returns to solve a new mystery set on the brink of the American Civil War. When her feisty niece, Bronwen Llyr, defies her family and joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency as a female operative, Glynis is catapulted into a tumultuous chain of events that could have catastrophic results for the entire nation. Assigned to investigate the condition and the status of vulnerable southern railroads, Bronwen arrives in Montgomery, Alabama, as the town stands poised to celebrate the election of Jefferson Davis as the president of the fledgling Confederacy. Determined to remain apolitical while performing her undercover duties, she is nevertheless thrust into the midst of a sinister conspiracy when she overhears a group of radicals orchestrating a plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln. Alarmed that her cover may have been compromised, Bronwen sends Glynis a frantic wire enlisting her aunt's assistance. Steeped in actual fact, the fifth installment in this excellent series will appeal to fans of intelligent historical mysteries featuring independent feminist heroines.
Margaret Flanagan
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