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 ...

This is a Short History Of The Pinkerton Detective Agency. A ⁠Noiser⁠ podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. With thanks to Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, a historian, and author of Allan Pinkerton, ...

Pinkerton, formally the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, a precursor to the FBI that is infamous for infiltrating unions of big businesses, has been accused of "rainbow-washing" for changing its ...

The private detective agency that employed accused Denver protest shooter Matthew Dolloff is older than the FBI, was the inspiration for the term “private eye” and is credited with once saving Abraham ...

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 ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Following a highly competitive auction, Amazon Studios has acquired a star vehicle that will have Emily Blunt playing Kate Warne, the first woman to become a detective at the Pinkerton ...

Emily Blunt has signed on for a new project at Amazon, with Deadline reporting that she’ll be working (in a producing capacity) with her Jungle Cruise pal Dwayne Johnson for a film about 19th century ...

Allan Pinkerton and his agency rose to prominence in 1861 with the claim that his agents were responsible for the discovery and prevention of The Baltimore Plot, an attempt to assasinate Abraham ...