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Riffenburgh, Beau, 1955-
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McParland, James P.
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
Private investigators -- United States -- Biography.
Detectives -- United States -- Biography.
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Riffenburgh, Beau, 1955-
McParland, James P.
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
Private investigators -- United States -- Biography.
Detectives -- United States -- Biography.
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Pinkerton's great detective : the amazing life and times of
James
McParland
/ Beau Riffenburgh.
by
Riffenburgh, Beau, 1955-
Viking, 2013.
Call #:
363.289 M172p
Subjects
McParland
,
James
P
.
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
Private investigators -- United States -- Biography.
Detectives -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780670025466
0670025461
Description:
xiv, 384
p
., 16 unnumbered
p
. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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