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Professional thieves and the detective : containing numerous detective sketches collected from private records / by Allan Pinkerton, author of "Mississippi outlaws and detectives," "Expressman and the detectives," "Mollie Maguires and detectives," "Spiritualists and detectives," "Criminal reminiscences," et cetera et cetera ; with a sketch of the author, how he became a detective, andc. ; illustrated.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884, author.
- Series:
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920.
- Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884.
- Pinkerton, Allan.
- Detectives--United States.
- Detectives.
- Thieves.
- United States.
- Thieves--United States.
- Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.
- Detectives--United States--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (598 pages, 36 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, Illinois : A. G. Nettleton and Company, 1880.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- How I became a detective
- Criminal sketches
- Lightning stealers and the detective
- The Edgewood mystery and the detective
- Booming logs and the detective
- Criminal reminiscences.
- Notes:
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- Local Notes:
- Scanned copy defective: pages 49-598 wanting.
- OCLC:
- 937015044
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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