EPISODE · Jan 1, 2016 · 7H 24M
Enjoy The Expressman and the Detective from Allan Pinkerton
from Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Suspense · host Allan Pinkerton
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Expressman and the Detective Author: Allan Pinkerton Narrator: Pete Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished the name, Pinkerton himself was one of the original human rights advocates. He was a dear friend to John Brown, an advisor to Abraham Lincoln, and 80 years ahead of his time in hiring female detectives. He was also stubborn, irascible, and an egomaniac. The Expressman and the Detective (1874) is Pinkerton's first attempt at putting his real-life experiences into novel form. Though many later works attributed to Pinkerton are understood to have been ghostwritten, this is the work of the man the London Times calls "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious." (Summary by Pete Williams)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/258890 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Expressman and the Detective Author: Allan Pinkerton Narrator: Pete Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 24 minutes Release date: January 1, 2016 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 6 Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 3 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, the world's first detective agency. Though events associated with the agency after his death have tarnished the name, Pinkerton himself was one of the original human rights advocates. He was a dear friend to John Brown, an advisor to Abraham Lincoln, and 80 years ahead of his time in hiring female detectives. He was also stubborn, irascible, and an egomaniac. The Expressman and the Detective (1874) is Pinkerton's first attempt at putting his real-life experiences into novel form. Though many later works attributed to Pinkerton are understood to have been ghostwritten, this is the work of the man the London Times calls "a man at once deeply admirable and quite obnoxious." (Summary by Pete Williams)
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