Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton is represented in the linked historical fiction through crime, espionage and covert power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In John Jakes’s On Secret Service, as secession begins, former Pinkerton detective Lon Price enters Union intelligence while actress Margaret Miller becomes entangled with espionage and divided political sympathies.