Girl in disguise / Greer Macallister.
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.-- adapted from book review.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781492635222
- ISBN: 1492635227
- Physical Description: 308 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2017]
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
General Note: | Publisher, publishing date and paging may vary. Includes a reading group guide (pages [303]-306). |
Target Audience Note: | 810L Lexile |
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Subject: | Warne, Kate, -1868 > Fiction. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency > Fiction. Women detectives > Illinois > Chicago > Fiction. Chicago (Ill.) |
Genre: | Fiction. Detective and mystery fiction. Biographical fiction. |
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- 23 of 23 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Montgomery City Public.
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Girl in Disguise
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Girl in Disguise
From the USA Today Bestselling author of The Magician's Lie "Macallister is becoming a leading voice in strong, female-driven historical fiction. Exciting, frightening, and unspeakably moving..."--Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingways's Girl For the first daring female Pinkerton detective, respect is hard to come by, but danger and spies are everywhere. In the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the streets of Chicago offer a woman mostly danger and ruin--unless that woman is Kate Warne. As an undercover Pinkerton detective, Kate is able to infiltrate the seedy side of the city in disguises that her fellow spies just can't manage. She's a seductress, an exotic foreign medium, a rich train passenger--all depending on the day and the robber, thief, or murderer she's been assigned to nab. But is it only her detective work that makes her a daring spy and a clever liar? Or is the real disguise the good girl she always thought she was? As the Civil War marches closer, Kate takes on her most pressing job ever. The nation's future is at risk, and she's no longer sure where her disguise ends and the very real danger begins. With magnificent historical detail, Girl in Disguise brings the adventures of one turn-of-the-century woman to tense, page-turning life. Also by Greer Macallister: The Magician's Lie Woman 99