True Detective Stories: From the Archives of the Pinkertons - Softcover

“The stories are statement of actual fact, repeated without any exaggeration or false coloring. Mr. Moffett is able to give, by the help of the Pinkerton agency, the inside facts of many famous cases”. -Daily Mail and Empire - Dec 1, 1897

Cleveland Moffett (April 27, 1863 – October 14, 1926) was an American journalist, author, and playwright. He was born in New York and spent many years as European correspondent to New York newspapers. Many of his works are set in France. He was the originator of the 'mysterious card' shaggy-dog-story. Moffett was known as a teller of weird tales. His novel Through the Wall (1909) was praised by Ellery Queen as "a neglected high spot.".

True Detective Stories, From the Archives of the Pinkertons, originally published in 1893, is a rough and tumble collection of six true crime stories from two centuries ago.

Contents:

The Northampton Bank Robbery

The Susquehanna Express Robbery

The Pollock Diamond Robbery

The Rock Island Express

The Destruction of the Renos

The American Exchange Bank Robbery