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Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement, counterfeiting, blackmail, and murder. Eventually earning...
Author
Series
Undercover ladies volume 1
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pinkerton detective Jennifer Layne is working undercover as a parlor girl named Amy on a high profile case when a girl who is central to her investigation turns up dead, and handsome Tom Colton is a prime suspect.
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Language
English
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"As the Civil War rages between the states, a courageous pair of spies plunge fearlessly into a maelstrom of ignorance, deceit, and danger, combining their unique skills to alter the course of history and break the chains of the past... Elle Burns is a former slave with a passion for justice and an eidetic memory. Trading in her life of freedom in Massachusetts, she returns to the indignity of slavery in the South--to spy for the Union Army. Malcolm...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2011
Edition
Unabridged library ed.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (ca. 5 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A locked-room young adult whodunit in the classic tradition of Sherlock Holmes.
June 1860. A new locomotive christened A Southern Breeze steams across the Carolina countryside carrying seventeen-year-old Jeb Bennett and his twin sister, Rachel Leigh, to the exhilarating promise of a summer in Charleston.
While storm clouds gather over the landscape, fiercer storms rage inside the passenger cars. The tensions between North and South rapidly escalate...
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English
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Young socialite Anna Nicholson is having trouble focusing on her upcoming marriage due to lingering questions about her birth mother. After hiring detectives to learn more about the past, Anna decides that some secrets are better left hidden. Her choice to seek God's purpose for her life also isn't as simple as she had hoped. But Anna knows she can turn to her grandmother, Geesje de Jonge, back in Holland, Michigan. Geesje's been helping new Dutch...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A provocative love story, conjuring up the passionate life of the Civil War era's legendary private eye, his dramatic exploits, and his clandestine affair with his partner, the first female detective.
9) Ripper
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
426 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1859, eleven-year-old Nell goes to live with her aunt, Kate Warne, the first female detective for Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. Nell helps her aunt solve cases, including a mystery surrounding Abraham Lincoln, and the mystery of what happened to Nell's own father" --
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