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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McFarland
by Riffenburgh, Beau
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Seller
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New Port Richey, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Viking, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. Large, sturdy book, dark gray spine, light gray boards, embossed initials at top front, purple lettering very fine on spine, 384 pages including two glossy photo sections. DJ glossy gray background, a photograph of a derby hat and suit with no head on front and spine middle, red spine top and bottom, praise on back from Wall Street Journal, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement. DJ and book, both As New.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Callaghan Books South
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 062870
- Title
- Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McFarland
- Author
- Riffenburgh, Beau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 400
- Keywords
- Detectives Pinkertons
Terms of Sale
Callaghan Books South
Books may be returned with 5 days for full refund--in same condition as sent.
About the Seller
Callaghan Books South
Biblio member since 2004
New Port Richey, Florida
About Callaghan Books South
An internet bookstore, we have added 20 books a day to our inventory for a total of more than 40,000, specializing in Poetry, Vietnam Conflict, Native American, Literary Criticism.
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