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 take on ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Known now as the founder of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency, Allan Pinkerton was one of the Civil War’s most ...

Allan Pinkerton (1819-84), founder of Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on Aug. 25, 1819. Pinkerton emigrated to the United States in 1842 and eventually ...

Starz is developing a series about the spy and detective Allan Pinkerton. Deadline reports that the network has ordered a pilot script for Pinkerton in the hope that it will become an eight or ...

THE PINKERTONS: THE DETECTIVE DYNASTY THAT MADE HISTORY by James D. Horan. 564 pages. Crown. $7.95. From Cotton Mather to J. Edgar Hoover, America’s best vice fighters have displayed an unappeasable ...

Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency, the firm that made “private eye” a popular phrase, finally went public last week. Under fourth-generation President Robert A. Pinkerton II, the family-owned firm ...

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An Oct. 3, 1862, photo shows, from left, Allan Pinkerton, President Abraham Lincoln and Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand in Sharpsburg, Md., after the Battle of Antietam ...