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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
by Beau Riffenburgh
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
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About This Item
New York United States of America: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books. Fine/Near Fine. 2013. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0670025461 Hardcover First Edition Hardcover 9780670025466 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.384pp (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .
Synopsis
The story of the legendary Pinkerton detective who took down the Molly Maguires and the Wild Bunch The operatives of the Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency were renowned for their skills of subterfuge, infiltration, and investigation, none more so than James McParland. So thrilling were McParland’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 agency’s cloak-and-dagger methods. Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton’s Great Detective brings readers along on McParland’s most challenging cases: from young McParland’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 Idaho’s former governor. Filled with outlaws and criminals, detectives and lawmen, Pinkerton’s Great Detective shines a light upon the celebrated secretive agency and its premier sleuth.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
- Author
- Beau Riffenburgh
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine/Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Publisher
- Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York United States of America
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Crime, Detective, Agency, Police, Private, Pinkerton, s, Great, Detective, The, Amazing, Life, and, Times, of, James, McParlan
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
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