Judith Pinkerton Josephson
Allan Pinkerton: The Original Private Eye
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(eFrog Press March 16, 2017)
When the midwestern United States was still young and rugged, a Scottish immigrant named Allan Pinkerton founded the first detective agency in the country. The methods he used were simple, but in 1850, they broke new ground. Facts and codes were recorded in small black notebooks; his agents worked undercover, in disguise. He created the first female detective department and protected Abraham Lincoln en route to his first inauguration. With keen senses and fierce determination, Allan Pinkerton and his agents solved many of the era's most celebrated crimes. He captured gangs of train and bank robbers and exposed the secrets and identities of cunning Civil War spies.
In a biography that combines historical detail, photographs, and excerpts from Allan Pinkerton's own letters and books, Judith Pinkerton Josephson takes you inside the spymaster’s headquarters and out on the trail with Pinkerton and his force. Josephson also provides insight into the personality of this complex and ambitious man.
In a biography that combines historical detail, photographs, and excerpts from Allan Pinkerton's own letters and books, Judith Pinkerton Josephson takes you inside the spymaster’s headquarters and out on the trail with Pinkerton and his force. Josephson also provides insight into the personality of this complex and ambitious man.
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