America's Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of William Burns
William Burns is best known as ‘America’s Sherlock Holmes’ and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followed by J. Edgar Hoover. But before he became director, Burns had a long, highly publicized career as a government detective for the Secret Service, then as the head of the famed Burns International Detective Agency, which he founded after leaving government service.
These successes encouraged Burns to start his own agency and he successfully competed with his hated rival, the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was a public hero for many years (except among labor union men who remembered his questionable tactics in the notorious McNamara case involving the bombing of the Los Angeles Times). But to the general populace, he was a white knight protecting the public interest until he disgraced his government office.
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America's Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of William Burns
William Burns is best known as ‘America’s Sherlock Holmes’ and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followed by J. Edgar Hoover. But before he became director, Burns had a long, highly publicized career as a government detective for the Secret Service, then as the head of the famed Burns International Detective Agency, which he founded after leaving government service.
These successes encouraged Burns to start his own agency and he successfully competed with his hated rival, the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was a public hero for many years (except among labor union men who remembered his questionable tactics in the notorious McNamara case involving the bombing of the Los Angeles Times). But to the general populace, he was a white knight protecting the public interest until he disgraced his government office.
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America's Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of William Burns

America's Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of William Burns

America's Sherlock Holmes: The Legacy of William Burns

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William Burns is best known as ‘America’s Sherlock Holmes’ and became director at the Bureau of Investigation, to be immediately followed by J. Edgar Hoover. But before he became director, Burns had a long, highly publicized career as a government detective for the Secret Service, then as the head of the famed Burns International Detective Agency, which he founded after leaving government service.
These successes encouraged Burns to start his own agency and he successfully competed with his hated rival, the Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was a public hero for many years (except among labor union men who remembered his questionable tactics in the notorious McNamara case involving the bombing of the Los Angeles Times). But to the general populace, he was a white knight protecting the public interest until he disgraced his government office.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781493040322
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 04/01/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 17 MB
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About the Author

William R. Hunt was a former professor of History Emeritus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He wrote weekly history features for the Anchorage Daily News.

Table of Contents

Foreword viii

Preface xi

Chapter 1 The Amateur Detective 1

Chapter 2 The Secret Service 13

Chapter 3 The Land Grabbers 28

Chapter 4 The Boodlers of San Francisco 45

Chapter 5 Red Sky Over Los Angeles 68

Chapter 6 Going After Darrow 86

Chapter 7 The Shame of the Cities 97

Chapter 8 Front-Page Detective 111

Chapter 9 Agents Provocateurs 127

Chapter 10 Trouble in Georgia 145

Chapter 11 Dubious Means 179

Chapter 12 Bombs Away 187

Chapter 13 Top Cop 200

Chapter 14 Department of Easy Virtue 218

Chapter 15 Last Scandal 238

Chapter 16 Tarnished Fame 245

Chapter 17 Sherlock Holmes in New York 257

Bibliography 261

Index 267

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