Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland, Riffenburgh, Beau

from kraaivrouw

Before we had an FBI, the United States had the Pinkerton's Detective Agency, a private security agency that worked on behalf of members of the government (providing private security for President Abraham Lincoln), of various law enforcement efforts (particularly in hunting outlaws in the Wild We...

from zzshupinga

ARC provided by NetGalley The detectives of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency were renowned worldwide for their skills and investigative capabilities, perhaps none more so that James McParland. In this book, Riffenburgh digs into the Pinkerton archives and other archives across the countr...

from Perednia

Some of the great parts of the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid come when Paul Newman turns to Robert Redford and asks, "Who are those guys?" That question eventually led Beau Riffenburgh to this biography of Pinkerton agent James McParland, who tracked the Hole in the Wall Gang and went u...

from katsparks

I will fully admit that I do not usually like biographies; I find them very dry and I can't keep up with all of the facts that they throw in my face. But this book is an exception to that rule. I picked it up for the sole reason of it being about true crime, a subject that I love, and stayed with...

from katsparks

I will fully admit that I do not usually like biographies; I find them very dry and I can't keep up with all of the facts that they throw in my face. But this book is an exception to that rule. I picked it up for the sole reason of it being about true crime, a subject that I love, and stayed with...