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Girl in disguise / Greer Macallister.

by Macallister, Greer.

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Sourcebooks Landmark, 2017.

Warne, Kate, -1868 -- Fiction.

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Fiction

Women detectives -- Illinois -- Fiction.

Undercover operations -- Fiction.

9781492635222 (hc.)

308 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes a reading group guide (p. [303]-306).

"Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement, counterfeiting, blackmail, and murder. Eventually earning the respect of her fellow detectives, Kate comes up with an ingenious plan to protect President Lincoln from a Southern assassination plot. During the Civil War, she must fight against a formidable adversary--notorious Southern spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow. Well-told and loaded with suspense and action, this historical novel about Kate Warne, the first female detective in 1850s Chicago, is superb."--From publisher.

Biographical fiction.

Historical fiction.

Mystery fiction.

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