True Detective Tales By Allan Pinkerton: Collection

by Allan Pinkerton

This collection includes 8 detective novellas, narrated about the events Allan Pinkerton himself had witnessed during his engagement in the profession of a detective:
THE EXPRESSMAN AND THE DETECTIVE
THE SOMNAMBULIST AND THE DETECTIVE
THE MURDERER AND THE FORTUNE TELLER
MISSISSIPPI OUTLAWS AND THE DETECTIVES
DON PEDRO AND THE DETECTIVES
POISONER AND THE DETECTIVES
BUCHOLZ AND THE DETECTIVES
THE BURGLAR'S FATE AND THE DETECTIVES

930 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 6, 2015

About the author

Notorious agency of Scottish-American detective Allan Pinkerton broke strikes and disrupted labor efforts to unionize.

People best know this spy for creating the national agency. In 1849, people in Chicago first appointed Pinkerton. In the 1850s, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the northwestern police agency, later known nationally and still in existence today as Pinkerton consulting and investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas Aktiebolag.

Business insignia of Pinkerton included a wide open eye with the caption, "We never sleep."

People posthumously published exploits of his agents, perhaps some ghostwritten for promotion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_P...

Reviews

[Karen Davis · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Super-Sleuths Finding Criminals

I found the book entertaining. The many short stories of Pinkerton's Detectives finding the guilty persons a fast reader. I recommend it to everyone !