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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
by Riffenburgh, Beau
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Seller
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Woodlawn, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Viking, 2013. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition (Number Line With The One Present). Includes Photograph Credits And Index. The Book Is Bound In One Quarter Gray Over A Very Light Gray With Red Lettering On The Spine. This Book Was Purchased New And Never Read.
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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- Bookseller
- Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 037694
- Title
- Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
- Author
- Riffenburgh, Beau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Pages
- 384
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Mcparland, James P.; Pinkerton's National Detective Agency - Biography; Private Investigators - United States - Biography; Biography & Autobiography - Law Enforcement; History - United States - 19Th Century. Historical, Criminology, General
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About the Seller
Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
Biblio member since 2013
Woodlawn, Illinois
About Granada Bookstore (Member IOBA)
I have a small inventory of about 23,000 titles. I sell from my own property and only on-line. I started selling on line in 1999. This is my Fourth year with Biblio.
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