Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is the author or editor of nearly twenty books, including The Nazi Spy Ring in America (GUP 2020) and A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (2022).

Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern law enforcement and private security.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Gorbals Man2. The Revolutionary3. Escape to America4. Pinkerton & Co.5. The Baltimore Plot to Assassinate Lincoln6. A Secret Service7. The Secret Service8. Labor Violence a New Source of Income9. McParland Tilts at the Molly Maguires10. Inventing Anti-Communism11. Inventing Private Detection12. Jesse James as Robin Hood13. The Death of the Founder14. Odyssey of the Son15. Pinkertons in the Haymarket Trial16. The Homestead Lockout and the End of Legitimacy17. Anti-Pinkerton Legislation18. Sundance and the Setting of the Western Sun19. The Trial of the Wobblies20. The Verdict21. The BofI: Challenge and Succession22. Private Rivals23. Of Harvard and Hammett24. The LaFollette Inquiry25. A Corporate Era26. Who Was the Greatest Detective of Them All?ConclusionList of Primary Source Archives and of Abbreviations Used in the NotesNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is the author or editor of nearly twenty books, including The Nazi Spy Ring in America (GUP 2020) and A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (2022).

Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern law enforcement and private security.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Gorbals Man2. The Revolutionary3. Escape to America4. Pinkerton & Co.5. The Baltimore Plot to Assassinate Lincoln6. A Secret Service7. The Secret Service8. Labor Violence a New Source of Income9. McParland Tilts at the Molly Maguires10. Inventing Anti-Communism11. Inventing Private Detection12. Jesse James as Robin Hood13. The Death of the Founder14. Odyssey of the Son15. Pinkertons in the Haymarket Trial16. The Homestead Lockout and the End of Legitimacy17. Anti-Pinkerton Legislation18. Sundance and the Setting of the Western Sun19. The Trial of the Wobblies20. The Verdict21. The BofI: Challenge and Succession22. Private Rivals23. Of Harvard and Hammett24. The LaFollette Inquiry25. A Corporate Era26. Who Was the Greatest Detective of Them All?ConclusionList of Primary Source Archives and of Abbreviations Used in the NotesNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones is the author or editor of nearly twenty books, including The Nazi Spy Ring in America (GUP 2020) and A Question of Standing: The History of the CIA (2022).

Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern law enforcement and private security.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Gorbals Man2. The Revolutionary3. Escape to America4. Pinkerton & Co.5. The Baltimore Plot to Assassinate Lincoln6. A Secret Service7. The Secret Service8. Labor Violence a New Source of Income9. McParland Tilts at the Molly Maguires10. Inventing Anti-Communism11. Inventing Private Detection12. Jesse James as Robin Hood13. The Death of the Founder14. Odyssey of the Son15. Pinkertons in the Haymarket Trial16. The Homestead Lockout and the End of Legitimacy17. Anti-Pinkerton Legislation18. Sundance and the Setting of the Western Sun19. The Trial of the Wobblies20. The Verdict21. The BofI: Challenge and Succession22. Private Rivals23. Of Harvard and Hammett24. The LaFollette Inquiry25. A Corporate Era26. Who Was the Greatest Detective of Them All?ConclusionList of Primary Source Archives and of Abbreviations Used in the NotesNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author