Kate Warne, Pinkerton Detective

Kate Warne answers a job advertisement at the Pinkerton Agency, where she is initially assumed to be seeking domestic work. Instead, she persuades Pinkerton to let her try work as an agent. By the following day, she has become America’s first female detective. The book chronicles the first case of this detective, whose work is described as both clever and courageous, with an author’s note and bibliography included.