This is the biography of Glaswegian Allan Pinkerton, who went to America and founded a nationwide police system more than half a century before the FBI was thought of, and a global network of agents which anticipated Interpol by many years. Pinkerton's powers of observation enabled him to solve many cases, initally as a deputy sheriff, then as a detective in the Chicago Police and latterly as principal of the North West detective agency, now known simply as "Pinkerton's". This book contains accounts of many of his greatest cases.
- ISBN10 1851588256
- ISBN13 9781851588251
- Publish Date 11 April 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 July 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Mainstream Publishing
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English