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Jim Cummings; Or, the Great Adams Express Robbery
A. Frank Pinkerton wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; Or, the Crime of the Midnight Express
A. Frank Pinkerton wrote this popular book that continues to be widely read today despite its age.
Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective
This mystery book named Dyke Darrel The Railroad Detective written by Frank Pinkerton is set in and around the cities of St. Louis, Chicago, and New York. It features a large cast of people who keep the plot moving. Dyke Darrel launches a manhunt after looking into a daring train heist that resulted in a friend's murder. At its finest, high Victorian serial drama. After reading the crime notice on the midnight express, less than two hours later. There was Dyke Darrel in Chicago. He went to the deceased messenger's body and quickly examined it. Darrel immediately saw that Nicholson had put up a valiant battle for his life but had been defeated by a stronger force. The outlaws were already the subject of a $10,000 prize offered for their capture and punishment. In this detective story, Dyke Darrel looks into the death of messenger Arnold Nicholson during the robbery of the Central Railroad's midnight express. His sister Nell, who he was scheduled to go on vacation with, assists him. In his pursuit of the offender, Dyke Darrell turns Chicago, "the Gotham of the North," upside down.
Jim Cummings
Frank Pinkerton was the author of: Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective; or, The Crime of the Midnight Express (1886), Five Thousand Dollars Reward (1886), Jim Cummings; or, The Great Adams Express Robbery (1887), Whitechapel Murders; or, An American Detective in London (1889), Race For Life (1898), and Won By Crime (? ).
"The Eye that Never Sleeps"
Raises important questions about the constituencies and social functions of both public and private police from the 1850's to the 1920's. At first the agency was seen as an alternative tot he police for those fearful of expanding governmental power. In the nineteenth centure, the private police agency could fill the gap left by inadequate public police activity and jurisdiction. Pinkerton agents were soon famous for their incredible success in detecting crime and apprehending criminals. But they were also dislike fro their coercive role in labor disputes and feared for the threat to privacy that detection work in general represented.
Frank and Jesse James
Heroes or desperadoes? For more than a century Wild West enthusiasts have been divided in their estimations of the exploits of Frank and Jesse James. To some, the James brothers were latter-day Robin Hoods who shared the proceeds of their bank and train robberies with the disadvantaged of their home state of Missouri. To others, the Jameses and their gang were among the most notorious outlaws of the American nineteenth century, cutting a bloody swath of crime from Iowa to Texas and from Kansas to West Virginia between 1866 and Jesse's death in 1882. In Frank and Jesse James, historian Ted P. Yeatman separates the men from the myths. Delving into archives of the states where they carried out ...
The Popular Press Companion to Popular Literature
In this pioneering work Victor Neuberg has assembled a wealth of information about popular literature, from the invention of the printing press to the present. This guide, by judicious selection, gives a vivid picture of the range and variety of popular literature and its producers. Besides describing the main genres, the author has also included the social, cultural and commercial background to the production of popular literature, factors that were crucial in influencing the forms it took.
Inventing the Pinkertons; Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs
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The Leo Frank Case
The events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide ranging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding of B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Leo Frank Case was the first comprehensive account of not only Phagan’s murder and Frank’s trial and lynching but also the sensational newspaper coverage, popular hysteria, and legal demagoguery that surrounded these events. Forty years after the book first appeared, and more than ninety years after the deaths of Phagan and Frank, it remains a gripping account of injustice. In his preface to the revised edition, Leonard Dinnerstein discusses the ongoing cultural impact of the Frank affair.
