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 share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Wizards of the Coast sent private detectives, allegedly from the infamous Pinkerton Agency, to ...

After city officials tried to run the famous Pinkerton agency out of town following a fatal shooting at a protest in October 2020, the security agency is once again allowed to operate in Denver. On ...

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 ...

Greatest name in U. S. private detecting is Pinkerton. The founder of the name, Allan Pinkerton, was a Scottish cooper who became Chicago’s first city detective in 1850, soon started a private agency.