Allan Pinkerton was furious when he got the news. Joseph Whicher, a trusted agent of Pinkerton's National Detective agency, had been discovered in the Missouri woods, bound, tortured and shot dead—yet ...

“Pinkerton made his mark not only in his own time but also on posterity,” writes Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones in Allan Pinkerton: America’s Legendary Detective and the Birth of Private Security. “The ...

"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 ...