Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Claude Melnotte and the Detectives
Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Claude Melnotte as a Detective and Other Stories
Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher: Toronton : Hunter, Rose
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Claude Melnotte as a Detective and Other Stories
Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385379016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Claude Melnotte
Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385214300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
The Molly Maguires and the Detectives
Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Detective and the Somnambulist
Author: Allan PinkertonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Two narratives written by Allan Pinkerton; highly fictionalized accounts ostensibly or loosely based on actual crime cases.
Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction
Author: P. BedorePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137288655
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
This book reveals subversive representations of gender, race and class in detective dime novels (1860-1915), arguing that inherent tensions between subversive and conservative impulses—theorized as contamination and containment—explain detective fiction's ongoing popular appeal to readers and to writers such as Twain and Faulkner.
A Spy for the Union
Author: Corey ReckoPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476606307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkerton's agency, Webster excelled. His cases included tracking a world famous forger, investigating grave robberies in a Chicago cemetery, and seeking to uncover a plot to destroy the Rock Island Bridge. It was also as a Pinkerton detective that Webster made his greatest contribution to his country when he was part of a small group of operatives that uncovered a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Webster went on to serve the United States as a spy in the Civil War. He traveled to the Confederate Capital multiple times and made many connections high up in the Confederate military and government. For a time he was the Union's top spy, but his career came to an abrupt end when, in 1862, he was betrayed by fellow spies and became the first spy executed in the Civil War.
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Author: J. Stanley GRIMES