Business, Author (25-Aug-1819 — 1-Jul-1884)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Sigmund A. Lavine. Allan Pinkerton: America's First Private Eye. New York: Dodd, Mead. 1963. 242pp.

James Mackay. Allan Pinkerton: The First Private Eye. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1996. 256pp. UK subtitle, The Eye Who Never Slept.

Allan Pinkerton. Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of all Grades and Classes: Containing Numerous Episodes of Personal Experience in the Detection of Criminals, and Covering a Period of Thirty Years' Active Detective Life. New York: G. W. Dillingham Co.. 1884. 616pp.

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5. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

6. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

7. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.886)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1164)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.826)

10. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.589)

11. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.575)

12. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.397)

13. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (p.801)

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