| Description |
308 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes a reading group guide (pages [303]-306). |
| Summary |
Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement, counterfeiting, blackmail, and murder. Eventually earning the respect of her fellow detectives, Kate comes up with an ingenious plan to protect President Lincoln from a Southern assassination plot. During the Civil War, she must fight against a formidable adversary--notorious Southern spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow. Well-told and loaded with suspense and action, this historical novel about Kate Warne, the first female detective in 1850s Chicago, is superb.-- adapted from book review. |
| Subject |
Warne, Kate, -1868 -- Fiction.
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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Fiction.
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Warne, Kate, -1868. (OCoLC)fst01856968
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Pinkerton's National Detective Agency. (OCoLC)fst00557212
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Women detectives -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.
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Women detectives. (OCoLC)fst01177563
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Illinois -- Chicago.
(OCoLC)fst01204048
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Mystery fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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Mystery fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781492635222 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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1492635227 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
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