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Pinkerton's Great Detective :The Amazing Life and Times of James Mcparland
by Riffenburgh, Beau
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used; Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Seller
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Port Neches, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New American Library. Used; Very Good. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2013 Hardcover First Edition. This book is in excellent unread condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Jacket has no rips or tears and is not price clipped. Book Condition: Very Good Jacket Condition: Very Good . 2013. First Edition. HARDCOVER.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Galveston Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9780670025466
- Title
- Pinkerton's Great Detective :The Amazing Life and Times of James Mcparland
- Author
- Riffenburgh, Beau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used; Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Publisher
- New American Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
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Galveston Books
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Port Neches, Texas
About Galveston Books
Fleur Fine Books carries a wide range of books including a very large selection of Science Fiction & Fantasy, we are constantly adding to our Texana section, we carry many signed editions, including signed limited editions and books signed in our store during author visits.
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