Perish from the Earth
A Lincoln and Speed Mystery
The Lincoln and Speed Mysteries: Book #2
- By: Jonathan F. Putnam
- Narrated by: Lloyd James
- Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Description
Newly minted trial lawyer Abraham Lincoln is riding the circuit, traveling by carriage with other lawyers and a judge to bring justice to the remote parts of Illinois. Meanwhile, Lincoln's close friend Joshua Speed steams up the Mississippi River aboard a steamboat owned by Speed's father. Suddenly, his journey is interrupted when a rigged card game aboard the ship turns to violence-and then murder.
Speed enlists Lincoln to defend the accused, but soon they come to discover that more than just the card games are crooked aboard the Speed family's ship. As the day of judgment hurtles toward them, Lincoln must fight to save the life of his client while also preserving the cause he holds so dear.
Meticulously researched and deftly plotted, Jonathan F. Putnam's second Lincoln and Speed mystery, Perish from the Earth, is the superlative follow-up to These Honored Dead, praised by Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin as "Splendid...one of the most enjoyable works of fiction I have read in a long time."
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The Lincoln and Speed Mysteries Series
These Honored Dead
By: Jonathan F. Putnam
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 8 hours 53 minutes
Abridged: No
Joshua Speed, the enterprising second son of a wealthy plantation owner, has struck off on his own. But before long he makes a surprising and crucial new acquaintance-a freshly minted lawyer by the name of Abraham Lincoln.
When an orphaned girl from a neighboring town is found murdered and suspicion falls on her aunt, Speed makes it his mission... Read more »
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Perish from the Earth
By: Jonathan F. Putnam
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 9 hours 43 minutes
Abridged: No
Newly minted trial lawyer Abraham Lincoln is riding the circuit, traveling by carriage with other lawyers and a judge to bring justice to the remote parts of Illinois. Meanwhile, Lincoln's close friend Joshua Speed steams up the Mississippi River aboard a steamboat owned by Speed's father. Suddenly, his journey is interrupted when a rigged card... Read more »
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Final Resting Place
By: Jonathan F. Putnam
Narrated by: Lloyd James
Length: 9 hours 28 minutes
Abridged: No
Twenty-nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln has spent his entire adult life running from his past-from the poverty of the dirt-floor log cabin where he was raised, from the dominion of his uneducated father, and from a failed early courtship. But now, Lincoln's past is racing back to haunt him.
It is the summer of 1838, and Springfield is embroiled in a... Read more »
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A House Divided
By: Jonathan F. Putnam
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes
Abridged: No
The new arrival of a woman named Mary Todd wedges a rift between Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, but they must resolve their differences if they stand any chance of cracking one of the most harrowing murder cases they have ever faced.
In the winter of 1839, a sensational disappearance rocks Springfield, Illinois, as headlines announce a local... Read more »
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