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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Riffenburgh, Beau, 1955-     Subjects     McParland, James P.     Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Biography.     Private investigators -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Riffenburgh, Beau, 1955-       by title:      Pinkerton's great de...         MARC Display

Pinkerton's great detective : the amazing life and times of James McParland / Beau Riffenburgh. by Riffenburgh, Beau, 1955- New York : Viking, c2013. Subjects McParland, James P.   Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Biography.   Private investigators -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9780670025466 (hardback) : 0670025461 (hardback) Description:  xiv, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Requests:  0 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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 363.28909 McParland Ri   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Biography B McParland Ri BIOGRAPHY Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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