Girl in disguise
By: Greer Macallister
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781492635222
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Women detectives; Pinkerton's National Detective Agency; Fiction
Description: Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement, counterfeiting, blackmail, and murder. Eventually earning the respect of her fellow detectives, Kate comes up with an ingenious plan to protect President Lincoln from a Southern assassination plot. During the Civil War, she must fight against a formidable adversary--notorious Southern spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow. Well-told and loaded with suspense and action, this historical novel about Kate Warne, the first female detective in 1850s Chicago, is superb.--
Notes: Includes a reading group guide (pages [303]-306).