Without disagreeing with him I'm moved to comment on a
tangential
point: most of the real private detective agencies worked for
the
strikebreakers, like Pullman. One wonders if Hammett's
Pinkerton
experience (in Baltimore) included any of this. I should
think for
the Op in question it wasn't much different from being back
in the
army, in terms of disillusionment....
--Ted White
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