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

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

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

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

by Beau Riffenburgh
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780143126072
Author Beau Riffenburgh
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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

By Beau Riffenburgh

About Beau Riffenburgh

Beau Riffenburgh has a Ph.D. in history from the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the academic staff. He has written numerous books on exploration, including Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition. He lives in Llanarthne, Wales, UK.

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