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• The Detective and the Somnambulist; The Murderer and the Fortune-Teller (Toronto: Belford Bros., 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Knots Untied: or, Ways and By-Ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives (Hartford: Burr and Hyde, 1871), by George S. McWatters (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Somnambulist and the Detective; The Murderer and the Fortune Teller (New York: G. W. Dillingham, c1903), by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Spiritualists and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1889), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Adventures of a United States Detective: A Series of Interesting Sketches Illustrating the Operations of the Whisky Ring in Their Evasions of the Law and Its Penalties (Philadelphia: Souder, 1876), by James J. Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Expressman and the Detective, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Practices of All Grades and Classes (New York: G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Darkie Dan, the Colored Detective: or, The Mississippi Mystery (Beadle's New York Dime Library v11 #134; 1881), by Prentiss Ingraham (page images at niu.edu)

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• Clendenen's Detective Manual: How to Become a Successful Detective (c1922), by Rufus H. Clendenen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Bucholz and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Burglar's Fate and the Detectives, by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Criminal Reminiscences and Detective Sketches, by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Detectives of Europe and America: or, Life in the Secret Service (Hartford: J. B. Burr, 1879), ed. by George S. McWatters (page images at Lehigh)
• The Gypsies and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham co., c1879), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Carleton and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1879), by Allan Pinkerton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives; Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives (New York: G. W. Dillingham, 1887), by Allan Pinkerton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Model Town and the Detectives; Bryon as a Detective (with The Hard Life of the Detective; New York: G. W. Carleton and Co., 1876), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Professional Thieves and the Detective: Containing Numerous Detective Sketches Collected From Private Records (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Two Evil Isms, Pinkertonism and Anarchism: By a Cowboy Detective Who Knows, As He Spent Twenty-Two Years in the Inner Circle of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency (Chicago: C. A. Siringo, c1915), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The detective and the somnambulist ; The murderer and the fortune teller [electronic resource] / (Toronto : Belford Bros., 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The expressman and the detective [electronic resource] / (Toronto : A.S. Irving, 1875), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Professional thieves and the detectives [electronic resource] : containing numerous detective sketches collected from private records; with a sketch of the author, how he became a detective, &c. / (Toronto : Rose, [188-?]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal reminiscences and detective sketches. (New York, G. W. Dillingham Co., [1900]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the departmental committee on detective work and procedure. (London : H.M.S.O., 1938-), by Great Britain. Home Office. Committee on Detective Work and Procedure and Arthur Lewis Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detective license regulations of Wisconsin. (Madison, Wis. : Dept. of State, [1932]), by Wisconsin and Wisconsin. Dept. of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of the world's greatest detectives, (Philadelphia, The J. C. Winston co., 1909), by George Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Vidocq : principal agent of the French police until 1827 and now proprietor of the paper manufactory at St. Mandé / (London : Hunt and Clarke, 1828), by Eugène François Vidocq (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Yankee detective : a drama in three acts / (Chicago : T.S. Denison, c1886), by W. Elsworth Stedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty years a detective in the wickedest city in the world. 20,000 arrests made, 12,900 convictions on state and city laws, 200 penitentiary convictions. The devil and the grafter and how they work together to deceive, swindle and destroy mankind ... ([Chicago?, c1908]), by Clifton R. Wooldridge and Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritualists and the detectives. (New York, G.W. Carleton & co.; [etc., etc.], [c1876] 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A double life and the detectives. (New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Adventures of the world's greatest detectives / (New York : McKinlay Stone & Mackenzie, 1909), by George Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Industry, society and the human element; a few true detective stories that are interesting and instructive. Sherman. ([Boston, Oxford print, c1917]), by Lewis L. Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Through the wall, (New York, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1909), by Cleveland Moffett (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gypsies and the detectives. (New York, G.W. Dillingham co., [c1900]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great cases of famous detectives, (Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co., [c1913]), by George Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• True detective stories / (New York : G.W. Dillingham Company, c1909), by Andrew Lewis Drummond and Louis F. Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• The model town and the detectives : Bryon as a detective ; [The hard life of the detective] / (New York : G.W. Carleton & Co. [etc.], 1876), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reminiscences of Detective-Inspector Christie / (Melbourne : George Robertson, [1910?]), by J. B. Castieau (page images at HathiTrust)
• The somnambulist and the detective. The murderer and the fortune teller. (New York : G. W. Dillingham Co., [1903]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal reminiscences and detective sketches / (New York : G. W. Carleton, 1878), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years a detective : a thorough and comprehensive exposé of criminal practices of all grades and classes, containing numerous episodes of personal experience in the detection of criminals, and covering a period of thirty years' active detective life / (New York : G. W. Carleton, 1884), by Allan Pinkerton and American Popular Literature Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buchloz and the detectives / (New York : G.W. Dillingham co., [c1908]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The spiritualists and the detectives. (New York, Dillingham, [c1905]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The model town and the detectives. Byron as a detective. [The hard life of the detective] (New York, G. W. Carleton & co.; [etc., etc.], 1886), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professional thieves and the detective : containing numerous detective sketches collected from private records / (New York : G.W. Dillingham, 1888 [c1880]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the note-book of a New York detective / (New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [c1865]), by James Brampton, B. J., and John B. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report ([Sacramento] : Senate of the State of California, [1959]), by Private Detectives and Debt Liquidators California. Legislature. Senate. Interim Committee on Collection Agencies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report ([Sacramento] : Senate of the State of California, [1957]), by Private Detectives and Debt Liquidators California. Legislature. Senate. Interim Committee on Collection Agencies (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thirty years a detective. A thorough and comprehensive exposé of criminal practices of all grades and classes ... Covering a period of thirty years' active detective life. (New York, G. W. Dillingham, Pub., [c1900]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Savage of Scotland Yard : the thrilling autobiography of Ex-Superintendent Percy Savage. (London : Hutchinson, [n.d.]), by Percy Savage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Detectives of Europe and America : or, Life in the secret service : a selection of celebrated cases in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, Egypt and America / (Hartford : J. B. Burr, 1878, c1877), by George S. McWatters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Detectives of Europe and America, or life in the secret service. A selection of celebrated cases in Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, Egypt, and America. A revelation of struggles and triumphs of the most renowned detectives on the globe for the past twenty-five years. Profusely illustrated. (Hartford, The J.B. Burr Publishing Co., 1880), ed. by George S. McWatters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private police, with special reference to Pennsylvania, (Philadelphia : The American academy of political and social science, 1933), by J. P. Shalloo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Personal and business protection : complete secret service course. (Minneapolis, Minn.,: [s.n., c1922]), by Interstate Secret Service Bureau. Minneapolis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The model town and the detectives. Byron as a detective. [The hard life of the detective]. (New York, G. W. Dillingham, 1900), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern police work : including detective duty : a book for police officers of all ranks / (New York : F.M. Basuino, c1947), by James Joseph Skehan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Buchols and the detectives. (New York, G.W. Carleton, 1883 [c1880]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern police work, including detective duty; a book for police officers of all ranks; national in scope, (Brooklyn, N.Y., R. V. Basuino, [c1939]), by James Joseph Skehan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical instruction for detectives; a complete course in secret service study, (Chicago : F.J. Drake & co., [c1921]), by Emmerson Wain Manning (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Irish police officer : comprising The identification, and other tales, founded upon remarkable trials in Ireland /, by Robert Curtis, Chester W. Topp, Graham Greene, Dorothy Craigie, Chester W. Topp collection of Victorian yellowbacks and paperbacks (Emory University. MARBL) GEU, and Ward & Lock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knots untied: or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives. (Hartford : J. B. Burr and Hyde, 1871), by George S. McWatters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of the gold fields and elsewhere in New South Wales, covering a period of forty-eight years' service as an officer of police. (Sydney : W. Brooks, 1907), by Martin Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spiritualists and the detectives. (New York, G. W. Carleton & co.; [etc., etc.], 1877), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thirty years a detective : a thorough and comprehensive exposé of criminal practices of all grades and classes, containing numerous episodes of personal experience in the detection of criminals, and covering a period of thirty years' active detective life / (New York : G. W. Carleton, 1884, t. p. 1885), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two evil isms, Pinkertonism and anarchism, by a cowboy detective who knows, as he spent twenty-two years in the inner circle of Pinkerton's national detective agency; ([Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms, 1958]), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi outlaws and the detectives. Don Pedro and the detectives. Poisoner and the detectives. (New York : G.W. Carleton & Co.; [etc., etc.], 1882, c1879), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The detective instructor / (Chicago : O'Sullivan Pub. Co., c1925), by Frank Dalton O'Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and exploits of S. Glenn Young : world-famous law enforcement officer / (Herrin, Ill. : Mrs. S.G. Young, [1925?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime detection. (Chicago, Ill. : The O'Sullivan publishing house, [©1928]), by Frank Dalton O'Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Professional thieves and the detective; (New-York, G. W. Carleton & co.; Philadelphia, H. W. Kelley; [etc., etc.], 1881), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life's reminiscences of Scotland Yard : in one-and-twenty dockets / (London : Leadenhall Press, [1890?]), by Andrew Lansdowne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rail-road forger and the detectives. (New York, Dillingham, [c1909]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Neprimirimostʹ : stranit͡sy istorii Leningradskogo ugolovnogo rozyska / (Leningrad : Lenizdat, 1988), by M. E. Skri︠a︡bin and I. K. Savchenko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bucholz and the detectives. (New York, Dillingham, [1880]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Professional thieves and the detectives containing numerous detective sketches collected fromprivate records. (Toronto, Rose pub. co., [1880]), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elements of investigative techniques. (Bloomington, Ill., McKnight & McKnight, [1949]), by James S. Eiseman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Scotland yard, (Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin company, 1927), by George Dilnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knots untied : or, Ways and by-ways in the hidden life of American detectives / (Hartford : J.B. Burr and Hyde, 1872), by George S. McWatters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investigators who perform well / (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice, Office of Communication and Research Utilization, [1987]), by Bernard Cohen, Jan M. Chaiken, National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Office of Communication and Research Utilization, and Abt Associates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criminal reminiscences and detective sketches. (New York, G. W. Carleton, 1879), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crooks of the Waldorf, : being the story of Joe Smith, master detective, / (New York : Macaulay company, 1929), by Horace Herbert Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-five years of detective life. (Manchester, J. Heywood, 1895-1901), by Jerome Caminada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The expressman and the detective. (Chicago, W. B. Keen, Cooke & co., 1874), by Allan Pinkerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cowboy detective; a true story of twenty-two years with a world-famous detective agency, giving the inside facts of the bloody Cour d'Alene labor riots, and the many ups and downs of the author throughout the United States, Alaska, British Columbia and Old Mexico, also exciting scenes among the moonshiners of Kentucky and Virginia, (Chicago, W. B. Conkey, 1912), by Charles A. Siringo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story behind private investigation. (New York, Vantage Press, [1957]), by M. R. Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel de police scientifique (technique) (Lausanne, Payot & cie; [etc., etc.], 1911-), by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• At Scotland Yard : being the experiences during twenty-seven years' service of John Sweeney / (London : Grant Richards, 1904), by John Sweeney and Francis Richards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Autobiography of a French detective, from 1818 to 1858 : comprising the most curious revelations of the French detective police system / (London : Ward and Lock, 1862), by Louis Canler and Lascelles Wraxall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Scotland Yard / (London : G. Bles, [1926?]), by George Dilnot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allan Pinkerton : America's first private eye / (New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, ©1963), by Sigmund A. Lavine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifty years a detective, (St. Louis, Mo. : For sale by C. E. Barnett, [c1912]), by Thomas Furlong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifty Years a Detective: 35 Real Detective Stories, by Thomas Furlong (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to Be a Detective, by James Brady (Gutenberg ebook)
• Practical Instruction for Detectives: A Complete Course in Secret Service Study, by Emmerson Wain Manning (Gutenberg ebook)
• Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives, by George S. McWatters (Gutenberg ebook)

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