Allan Pinkerton: The Eye Who Never Slept
by Mackay, James A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1851588256
- ISBN 13
- 9781851588251
- Seller
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Lake Elsinore, California, United States
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About This Item
Mainstream Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 1851588256 . Clean, straight copy. Illustrated with b&w photographs. 256 pp. Notes and Index. Somewhat scuffed jacket with a small tear at the fold, (now in an archival cover). Page 170 has a chip from the edge, not involving the text. 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. This book covers many of his cases, including the foiled attempt on Lincoln's life uncovered by Kate Waren, the first woman detective. ; 9.13 X 6.22 X 1.26 inches; 256 pages .
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- Bookseller
- E Ridge fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7551
- Title
- Allan Pinkerton: The Eye Who Never Slept
- Author
- Mackay, James A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1851588256
- ISBN 13
- 9781851588251
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Detection, American 19th Century
- Bookseller catalogs
- Bibliographies; History: United States;
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