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

People: Kate Warne (-1868)

Places: Illinois,  Chicago