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Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
by Riffenburgh, Beau
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Seller
-
Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Very Good. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 9780670025466 . Tight unmarked book in crisp dust jacket. ; 9.29 X 6.14 X 1.57 inches; 400 pages .
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
- B-Line Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45148
- Title
- Pinkerton's Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland
- Author
- Riffenburgh, Beau
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670025461
- ISBN 13
- 9780670025466
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- 9780670025466
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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