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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Rough-and-Tumble Career of James McParland, America's Sherlock Holmes

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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Rough-and-Tumble Career of James McParland, America's Sherlock Holmes

The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch

The operatives of the Pinkertonâ€™s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParlandâ€™s cases that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle included the cunning detective in a story along with Sherlock Holmes.

Riffenburgh digs deep into the recently released Pinkerton archives to present the first biography of McParland and the agencyâ€™s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkertonâ€™s Great Detective brings readers along on McParlandâ€™s most challenging cases: from young McParlandâ€™s infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial investigation of the Western Federation of Mines in the assassination of Idahoâ€™s former governor.

Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkertonâ€™s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.
Country USA
Manufacturer Penguin Books
Binding Paperback
Color Burgundy/maroon
ReleaseDate 2014-11-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780143126072

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