Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, formed in the 1800s to help law enforcement track down criminals, once sparred with the outlaw Jesse James. It later became entangled in the notorious ...

Scottish emigrant and abolitionist Allan Pinkerton founded America's first detective agency and successfully brought down some of the country's most ruthless criminals. But in 1874 he tried to ...

The man who uncovered the plot? Allan Pinkerton, founder of the now-infamous Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency. His services to Lincoln that night would draw him close to the US government ...

TRENTON, N.J., Oct.6.--Detective Robert J.Linden. Superintendent of the Pinkerton agency at Philadelphia, who was placed under arrest here come days ago on a charge of disorderly conduct preferred ...

Joseph Whicher, a trusted agent of Pinkerton's National Detective agency, had been discovered in the Missouri woods, bound, tortured and shot dead—yet another victim of Jesse James, the outlaw ...

Beau Riffenburgh’s new book, “Pinkerton’s Great Detective: The Amazing Life and Times of James McParland,” manages to be both admirable and cowardly. The book is a suspenseful page-turner ...

Dan “Oldschoolmtg” Cannon said he was shooting videos on Saturday, when agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency arrived at his home — demanding that he hand over the game and ...

Two agents of the Pinkerton Detective Agency hunt the main character and his fellow outlaws on behalf of the federal government throughout the game’s story. Pinkerton, now owned by Swedish firm ...

This energetic biography sheds light on a master undercover operative for the famed Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. The iconic sleuth of his time, first hired by Pinkerton in 1873, McParland made ...

In America, lady detectives had an additional aspect of being spies during the Civil War. As Ms. Lodge tells us, one of Allan Pinkerton’s early employees, Kate Warne, is said to have thwarted an ...

Scottish emigrant and abolitionist Allan Pinkerton founded America's first detective agency and successfully brought down some of the country's most ruthless criminals. But in 1874 he tried to ...