01816cam a2200313 i 4500 287115181 TxAuBib 20170308120000.0 160307s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016007221 9781492635222 1492635227 TxAuBib rda Macallister, Greer. Girl in Disguise / Greer Macallister. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2017] pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Widowed and in need of a job, Kate Warne convinces Allan Pinkerton that a female detective can go places and do things a male detective cannot. Once hired, Kate becomes skilled at lock picking and surveillance, but she is best in disguise--as a prostitute, rich matron, spinster, clerk, Southern belle--an expert liar, playing a role. She investigates burglaries, bank robberies, embezzlement, counterfeiting, blackmail, and murder. Eventually earning the respect of her fellow detectives, Kate comes up with an ingenious plan to protect President Lincoln from a Southern assassination plot. During the Civil War, she must fight against a formidable adversary--notorious Southern spy Mrs. Rose Greenhow. Well-told and loaded with suspense and action, this historical novel about Kate Warne, the first female detective in 1850s Chicago, is superb.-- adapted from book review. 20170308. Warne, Kate, -1868 Fiction. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Fiction. Women detectives Illinois Chicago Fiction. Fiction. Mystery fiction. Biographical fiction.