Pinkerton (detective agency) Anti-Pinkerton Act in 1893, federal law has stated that an "individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization, may not be employed by the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia." In the 1870s, Franklin B. Gowen, then president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, hired the agency to "investigate" the labor unions in the company's mines. A Pinkerton agent, James McParland, using the alias "James McKenna", infiltrated the Molly Maguires, a 19th-century secret society of mainly Irish-American coal miners, leading to the downfall of the labor organization. The incident inspired Arthur
The Whodunit Detective Agency The Whodunit Detective Agency The Whodunit Detective Agency ( – "LasseMaja's Detective Agency") is a Swedish children's book series written by Martin Widmark and illustrated by Helena Willis. In the English translation it is called The JerryMaya detective agency. Between 2014 and 2016 eight of the books were published in English by Grosset and Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Besides the books there are games, puzzles etc. A television series based on the books has been produced in Sweden. This book series is about two children called Lasse and Maja (Jerry and Maya) who live in the little