The Rail-Road Forger and the Detectives

By Allan Pinkerton

“The characters with whom the reader will make acquaintance have all been in the flesh. But few of them, so far as I know, have yet quitted it. The identity of some has been veiled by fictitious names. ..any one of those introduced would be able to recognize a faithful account of the events narrated. ..of the events themselves it will be sufficient for me to state that they had a wide public notoriety at the time of their occurrence….the slight embellishment which is here given them…” from the Preface.

New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1881. 364p.