Professional Thieves and the Detective - Containing Numerous Detective Sketches is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic…

The Spy of the Rebellion - Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883…

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"The Burglar's Fate and The Detectives" is a detective novel written by Allan Pinkerton, a real-life detective and founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. It was first published in…

Describes author’s successful thwarting of an assassination plot against President-elect Lincoln early in 1861 and his exploits as an operative during the crucial years of the Civil War.

The crime described in A Double Life and the Detectives is less of a whodunit and more of a whydunit. As Pinkerton learns, societal pressure to keep up appearances and…