Join us on Wednesday, April 21 at 7:30pm on Zoom. Mary Niles Maack will lead a discussion of Girl in Disguise by Jael McHenry Maack (who writes under the pseudonym Greer Macallister). The main character in this novel is Kate Warne, the first woman hired by the Pinkerton detective agency. In 1861 Warne took part in helping Lincoln escape from an assassination plot planned to occur when he was scheduled to transfer trains in Baltimore on his way to DC. This incident and several others recounted in the novel are based on actual cases detailed in Allan Pinkerton’s memoires. However, since there are few other sources on Kate Warne, most of the book is a fictionalized. The Library Journal review describes Girl in Disguise as a “stellar historical novel featuring a fierce female lead... Macallister’s masterly storytelling brings her characters to life, and the skillfully handled suspense never wavers.” If you are not already on the Women Reading email list, contact us at office@westwoodpres.org to be added and receive the Zoom link prior to the meeting.