The Lincoln assassination riddle : revisiting the crime of the nineteenth century / edited by Frank J. Williams and Michael Burkhimer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Baltimore plot: was John Wilkes Booth involved in the first conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln? / Michael J. Kline -- John Wilkes Booth's Confederate connection / Edward Steers Jr. -- Guilt by insinuation: law and illusion in the Lincoln conspiracy / Michael W. Kauffman -- The wound of Mr. Lincoln / Blaine V. Houmes, M.D. -- The men who caught Lincoln's assassin: how twenty nine men succeeded where 10,000 searchers failed / Steven G. Miller -- The mystery of Mrs. Surratt: did she or didn't she? / Laurie Verge -- John Harrison Surratt Jr. / Joan L. Chaconas -- Lewis Powell: alias Paine-Confederate guerrilla freedom fighter or terrorist? / Betty J. Ownsbey -- The Weichmann enigma / Steven J. Wright -- Mary Lincoln and the Lincoln assassination: grief unbounded / Richard W. Etulain -- Robert Todd Lincoln: the grieving prince of rails / Michael S. Green -- Shattered and altered lives of the Lincoln assassination / Hugh Boyle -- Abraham Lincoln: voting rights martyr? / Michael Burkhimer -- The law of war, General Orders No. 100, and the military trial of the conspirators / Burrus M. Carnahan -- What goes around comes around: Americans interpret the Lincoln assassination / Thomas R. Turner.