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Seiple, Samantha, author.

Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye / Samantha Seiple.

First edition.

New York : Scholastic Press, 2015.

211 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 22 cm

A biography of the Scottish immigrant barrel-maker whose side line detective work developed into the oldest and most famous detective agency in the United States.

Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 -- Juvenile literature.

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Juvenile literature.

Private investigators -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Detectives -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-205) and index.

Part I: Spymaster -- Prologue: Into the Conspirators' Nest -- Chapter 1: An Unsuspecting Detective -- Chapter 2: A Murderous Plot -- Chapter 3: Midnight Mission -- Chapter 4: At Your Secret Service -- Chapter 5: A Sharp-Dressed Man -- Chapter 6: Rebel Rose -- Chapter 7: Every Rose Has a Thorn -- Chapter 8: No Way Out -- Chapter 9: The Bloodiest Day -- Part II: Outlaw Hunter -- Chapter 10: Reign of Terror -- Chapter 11: Wanted Dead or Alive -- Chapter 12: The James-Younger Gang -- Chapter 13: Dead Man in the Road -- Chapter 14: The Final Showdown -- Chapter 15: End of Days -- Epilogue: Pinkerton's Legacy -- Source Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

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