The Cincinnati Spy: The Misadventures and Crimes of Harry Catlin, An Unlikely Civil War Hero
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Jane Singer and Diana Kirkwood
Jane Singer is a tale spinner, a Civil War scholar, and author of fiction and nonfiction. Her fixed and firm mission is bringing to life heroes and heroines, assassins, and conmen, both real and imagined, in a long-ago war that has eerie resonance in our own troubled time. Her nonfiction works include:
1. The War Criminal’s Son: The Civil War Saga of William A. Winder (Potomac Books, 2019)
2. Lincoln’s Secret Spy: The Civil War Case That Changed the Future of Espionage (Lyons Press, April 2015)
3. The Confederate Dirty War: Arson, Bombings, Assassination and Plots for Chemical and Germ Attacks Against the Union (McFarland & Company, August 2005)
Singer’s fiction works include:
1. Falcon: A Civil War Spy Fiction (KDP, 2024)
2. Alias Dragonfly (Bell Bridge Books, 2011)
3. Booth’s Sister (Bell Bridge Books, 2008)
In November 2006, the History Channel based a two-hour special called Civil War Terror on her book. Singer was both the historical consultant for the project and the primary onscreen narrator. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post Magazine (“The Fiend in Gray”) and The Washington Times (“Felix Stidger and the Sons of Liberty”). Her research and discovery of Stidger, a little-known American
