Allan Pinkerton affiliated with the notorious Banditti of the Prairie. After observing their movements for some time he informed the local sheriff, who arrested them. This later led to Pinkerton being appointed, in 1849, as the first police detective in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. In 1850, he partnered with Chicago attorney Edward Rucker in forming the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co, and finally Pinkerton National Detective Agency, still in existence today as Pinkerton Consulting and Investigations, a subsidiary of Securitas AB. Pinkerton's business insignia was a wide open eye with the caption "We never sleep." As the US
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency the first on 10 September 2004, and the most recent on 20 July 2017. The episodes encompass the first to the sixteenth books. They star Claire Benedict as Mma Ramotswe (except the 2010 and 2017 episodes, when she was played by Janice Acquah). Episodes: A cookbook associated with the novels was published in 2009; "Mma Ramotswe's Cookbook" by Stuart Brown, with a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith set in Botswana and featuring the character Mma Precious Ramotswe. The series