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May 2024
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Allan Pinkerton, el primer detective pri...

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En 1850, el escocés Allan Pinkerton fundó en Chicago una agencia de detectives que se haría célebre por atrapar a salteadores de trenes, criminales políticos... y huelguistas. 
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