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Series
Undercover Ladies volume 1
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press/Barbour Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Pinkerton detective Jennifer Layne is working undercover as a parlor girl named Amy on a high profile case when a girl who is central to her investigation turns up dead, and handsome Tom Colton is a prime suspect.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Falling for someone who doesn't want to get married is soon be the least of his concerns. While his brothers and their new wives search for who shot him, Wyatt Hunt is temporarily bedridden and completely miserable. Somehow Molly Garner's limited skills have made her the most qualified in their circle to care for Wyatt. But by the time he's healed, she's fed up with him and the whole ungrateful family. For even worse than his grumpiness were the...
Author
Series
Colorado cowboys (Jody Hedlund) volume 4
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Ivy McQuaid has been saving up for a home of her own with the winnings from the cowhand competitions she sneaks into-but everything changes when a man from her past returns. Undercover Pinkerton agent Jericho Bliss is on the hunt for a war criminal, but when Ivy becomes involved in his dangerous life, his worst fears come true"--
6) By the neck
Author
Series
Stoneface Finnegan westerns volume 1
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rollie Finnegan is a man of few words. As a Pinkerton agent with two decades of experience under his belt, he uses his stony silence to break down suspects and squeeze out confessions. Hence the nickname Stoneface. Over the years, he's locked up plenty of killers. Now he's ready to make a killing--for himself... There's gold in the mountains of Idaho Territory. And the town of Boar Gulch is a golden opportunity for a tough guy like Finnegan. But when...
7) Calico spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Pinkerton operative Katie Madison' newest case takes her to Calico, Kansas, where two Harvey House restaurant waitresses were murdered in mysterious circumstances. Calico's sheriff, Branch Whitman, has never met a Pink he liked and is stunned to learn the pretty redhead's true identity as she works undercover as a Harvey girl. A tornado hits town, and a past deception puts Branch's eight-year-old-son in danger. Now the Sheriff has no choice but to...
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Series
Language
English
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"Calista York needs one more successful case as a Pinkerton operative to secure her job. When she's assigned to find the kidnapped daughter of a mob boss, she's sent to the rowdy mining town of Joplin, Missouri, despite having extended family in the area. Will their meddling expose her mission and keep Lila Seaton from being recovered?When Matthew Cook decided to be a missionary, he never expected to be sent only a short train ride away. While fighting...
Author
Publisher
iUniverse
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A nineteenth-century Pinkerton detective finds his life intertwined with a Lloyd's insurance detective. Unknown to both of them, but suspected by the Lloyd's detective, the mythological wizard, Merlin, time travels from the twelfth century and covertly assists them in their investigations. While Merlin tries to fit into the nineteenth century, the Pinkerton detective struggles with his personal life after losing his partner during a train robbery."--...
10) Undercover bride
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Pinkerton detective Maggie Cartwright is tasked with going undercover as a mail order bride. Her fiance is widower Garrett Thomas, aka the suspected Whistle-Stop Bandit. No sooner does Maggie arrive in Arizona Territory when she s confronted with an early wedding date the clock is ticking on her detective work or she may end up a criminal s wife! As the day of the wedding draws near, Maggie begins to panic. The problem is that the more she gets to...
Author
Series
Great Western Detective League volume 4
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Two powerful railroads clash in a dispute over the Royal Gorge right-of-way to serve a valuable silver strike in Colorado. A reclusive financier with substantial holdings in the Denver & Rio Grande commissions the Knights of Labor to foment labor unrest against rival Atkins Topeka & Southern to delay development of the Royal Gorge spur while the dispute is litigated. Stephen Atkins, owner of the AT&S, turns to Pinkerton for assistance in breaking...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zuretta Palmer travels to Chicago during the 1893 World's Fair to find her missing sister, but when the police and the Pinkertons refuse to help her, Zuretta begins her own investigation by becoming a maid at the notorious Castle.
13) Legacy of mercy
Author
Series
Waves of mercy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having returned to Chicago, young socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marriage. The new information she's learned about her birth mother continues to pull at her, and she hires Pinkerton detectives to help her find the truth. But as she meets people who once knew her mother and hears stories about the past, Anna soon discovers that some secrets are better left hidden. At the same time, unflattering stories about Anna are leaked...
Author
Publisher
Archaia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"America is at a crossroads. Secession is spreading. And the nation s newly elected president is the target of a conspiracy to assassinate him and trigger a Civil War. The safety of Lincoln and his family and the future of the American experiment hinges on the success of a new kind of lawman, known by a word still novel in the culture of the time: detective. But there was only one who would prove to be up to the task an individual whose extraordinary...
15) Flora's wish
Author
Series
Secret lives of Will Tucker volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"May 1887--Flora Brimm is determined the fifth time is the charm. Back home she has a reputation as "Fatal Flora," a woman whose previous four fiances died in untimely accidents. Flora is desperate to marry, because producing an heir is the only way she can keep her family's estate. She's confident this visit to Eureka Springs with her grandmother will help her land a husband. Pinkerton detective Lucas McMinn is hot on the trail of Will Tucker, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's the spring of 1887, and Rose Gallagher is finally coming into her own as a detective, working alongside her partner, Thomas, as an agent of the special paranormal branch of the Pinkerton Agency. Things are going almost too well, so Rose is hardly surprised when Theodore Roosevelt descends on them like a storm cloud, hiring them for a mysterious job out West. It began with livestock being torn apart by an unknown predator. Now people are being...
17) A golden grave
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Rose Gallagher always dreamed of finding adventure, so her new life as a freshly-minted Pinkerton agent ought to be everything she ever wanted. Only a few months ago, she was just another poor Irish housemaid from Five Points; now, she's learning to shoot a gun and dance the waltz and throw a grown man over her shoulder. Better still, she's been recruited to the special branch, an elite unit dedicated to cases of a paranormal nature, and that means...
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