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James McParland [Note 1] ( né McParlan; [Note 2] 22 March 1844 [3] – 18 May 1919) was an American private detective and Pinkerton agent. McParland arrived in New York in 1867. He worked as a laborer, policeman and then in Chicago as a liquor store owner [4] [5] until the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed his business.
Read More In Allan Pinkerton …1876 one of his detectives, James McParlan, lived among the Molly Maguires in Pennsylvania and secured evidence that led to the breaking up of this organization of coal miners supposedly engaged in terrorism. During the strikes of 1877 the Pinkerton Agency’s harsh policy toward labour unions caused it to be…
20. Dez. 2013 · McParland was a showman and a braggart, a bully prepared to bend and break the law in pursuit of his quarry, but he was also a man of high intelligence and remarkable courage, a supremely...
The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. [1] The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915.
5. Mai 2024 · James McParland: the Pinkerton detective agency sleuth became became, in the words of one reporter, “one of the world’s most famous detectives” Tim Fanning. Sun May 5 2024 - 18:59.
29. Juli 2015 · Both action packed and meticulously researched, Pinkerton's Great Detective brings readers along on McParland's most challenging cases: from young McParland's infiltration of the murderous Molly Maguires gang in the case that launched his career to his hunt for the notorious Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch to his controversial ...
James McParland was born in Ireland in 1843. He worked as a stock clerk, agricultural labourer and circus barker before taking a ship from Liverpool to New York in 1867. McParland settled in Chicago where he opened a store selling alcohol. After a fire destroyed his business in 1871 he joined the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
