This unusual book brings together works that expose Nat Pinkerton and the successors of his work - both the historical Pinkerton, the famous detective and creator of the largest detective agency, and the literary character, the hero of hundreds of European and Russian detective "issues" and the inspirer of the adventure literature of the "red Pinkerton." The central place in the collection is occupied by the adventure novel "The Pinkerton Agency" - the first book by L. Ya. Ginzburg, reprinted for the first time since 1932. The reader will also find in the book a comic book that preceded the release of the novel, the rare "Cannibal of the American States Nat Pinkerton" by N. Tagamlitsky, A. Arkhangelsky’s parody “Communist Pinkerton” and other materials. The text of the book “L. Ginzburg L. Kantorovich THE PINKERTON AGENCY” is missing two pages