Pinkerton’s great detective story
HIS CREDENTIALS sound like those of an all-American hero. The original “Private Eye”, he founded the world’s most famous detective agency, foiled a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and pursued outlaws and desperadoes – including the notorious Jesse James – across the American west.
Allan Pinkerton, whose agency still bears his name, cut his teeth many miles and an ocean away – in the mean streets of 19th-century Glasgow. for more click here