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Allan Pinkerton was so famous that for decades after his death, his surname was a slang term for a private eye, whether they were agents of the Pinkerton Agency or not. The "Mr. Pinkerton" novels, by American mystery writer Zenith Jones Brown (under the pseudonym David Frome), were about Welsh-born amateur detective Evan Pinkerton and may have ...
Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
Allan Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, played a key role in managing Lincoln's security throughout the journey. Though scholars debate whether or not the threat was real, Lincoln and his advisors clearly believed that there was a threat and took actions to ensure his safe passage through Baltimore, Maryland .
Since 2009, Pinkerton has worked as an academic at Royal Holloway. At the time of his election to Parliament in 2024, he was a reader (associate professor) of geopolitics. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] He served as an accredited observer of the 2013 Falkland Islands sovereignty referendum , and has conducted research in regions affected by international disputes ...
The Pinkertons is a Canadian Western police procedural television series which features crime cases of the Pinkerton detective agency.The show is officially licensed with the Pinkerton detective agency, [3] and features stories based on actual cases from the Pinkerton detective agency archives dating to the 1860s.
The Man From Scotland Yard (1932) - Pinkerton; The Eel Pie Murders (1933) - Pinkerton; Scotland Yard Can Wait (1933) Mr. Pinkerton Finds a Body (1934) Mr. Pinkerton Goes to Scotland Yard (1934) Mr. Pinkerton Grows a Beard (1935) Mr. Pinkerton Has The Clue (1936) The Black Envelope (1937) - Pinkerton; Mr. Pinkerton at the Old Angel (1939)
Mr. Rixley, a detective from the Pinkerton's agency, is assigned to capture the outlaws. Rixley doggedly remains on their trail, accidentally killing a Younger cousin and the youngest James brother, and losing several of his men in the process. Due to his errors, the Pinkertons back off.
Mr. Wu (Keone Young) is the official or unofficial leader of Deadwood's substantial but mostly unseen Chinese ("Celestials") population, the Asian counterpart to Swearengen. He routinely interacts with Swearengen and other Caucasians over a few matters of business, such as the opium trade, and the seemingly daily efficient disposal of numerous ...