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Moss, Marissa,

The eye that never sleeps : how Detective Pinkerton saved President Lincoln / words by Marissa Moss ; illustrations by Jeremy Holmes. - 47 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 x 32 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.

School Library Journal, September 2018 Pub Weekly, October 2018 Kirkus Review, September 2018

Describes how Allan Pinkerton, the first police detective in Chicago and owner of the country's most successful detective agency, protected Abraham Lincoln on the way to his 1861 inauguration. Though assassins attempted to murder Lincoln en route, Pinkerton foiled their plot and brought the president safely to the capital.

4.4 K-3 980L Lexile V Fountas

ISBN: 9781419730641 1419730649

LCCN: 2017040389

Subjects--Personal Names:
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 --Juvenile literature.
Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884.

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency--Juvenile literature.
Pinkerton's National Detective Agency.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Private investigators--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Detectives--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Private investigators.
Detectives.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Nonfiction picture books.

LC Class. No.: HV7911.P4675 / M67 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 921 PIN 363.28/9/092