Neal W Fandek

Peter Pike and the Lincoln Love Letters Neal W Fandek

Scandal!

Explosive Lincoln love letters have disappeared from the University of Illinois library -- and with them, the last person to see the letters, an erratic adjunct poetry instructor named Danny Ejderhan. His fiancé Dani hires once-homeless private eye Peter Pike (he sleeps in his office now) to find Dan. To do so before it's too late, Pike must navigate a world of fluid sexuality, political correctness, race riots, musty archives and inconvenient truths while dodging wunderkind college presidents, thuggish deans from New Jersey, lovely librarians and the editors of Pendragon Letters, all of whom desperately want the missives. On top of that, Pike is falling in love with Greta, a librarian with some secrets herself.

Why all the ruckus? Because these documents will upend history. The letters to and from Lincoln are not correspondence with Mary Todd, or even a woman at all. His crush is on ... John Wilkes Booth.

The second book in the Peter Pike series asks the eternal question: What price love?