Pinkerton (detective agency) a few businessmen saw the need for greater control over their employees; their solution was to sponsor a private detective system. In February 1855, Allan Pinkerton, after consulting with six midwestern railroads, created such an agency in Chicago." In 1871, Congress appropriated $50,000 (about ) to the new Department of Justice (DOJ) to form a sub-organization devoted to "the detection and prosecution of those guilty of violating federal law." The amount was insufficient for the new DOJ to fashion an internal investigating unit, so they contracted out the services to the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. However, since passage of the
Dragon Detective Agency Holly become friends and she joins him on later cases. Dragon Detective Agency The Dragon Detective Agency is a series of children's books written by Gareth P. Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The first book, called 'The Case of the Missing Cats', was published in 2006. It involves a girl called Holly Bigsby who has lost her cat Willow. She calls the Dragon Detective agency but she does not know that there's a dragon on the other end called Dirk Dilly. Dirk thinks it is an investigation that he does not need to solve but he finds out there