Title: Girl in disguise
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.--
Subjects: Women detectives, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, Fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, biographical, Warne, Kate, -1868 -- Fiction, Warne, Kate, -1868, Warne, Kate, Pinkerton's National Detective Agency -- Fiction, Women detectives -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction, Large type books, FICTION -- Historical, Women detectives -- Illinois -- Fiction, Biographical fiction, Detective and mystery fiction, Historical fiction, Mystery fiction, Illinois -- Chicago
Places: Illinois, Chicago
People: Kate Warne (-1868)