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
Dragon Detective Agency 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 is a sinister plot behind the cat's disappearance. He and