Beau Riffenburgh, "Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James Mcparland"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0670025461 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 10.8 mb
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0670025461 | EPUB | pages: 400 | 10.8 mb
Created in 1850, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency used operatives renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration and investigation - and none more so than James McParland, who even featured in a Sherlock Holmes story. This detailed but very readable biography from the author of Nimrod charts the famous cases of this real-life super-sleuth, including his infiltration of the Molly Maguires and his hunt for the Wild Bunch, and sheds new light on Pinkerton's cloak-and-dagger methods.