But when complications of big city life and romance intervene, Amanda discovers that being a “detective” is nothing like she expected. She’d fled her small, rural town on the promise that Pinkerton Agent, Christopher Garrety, would make her his partner and perhaps something more.
Newly inducted into Allan Pinkerton’s Female Detective’s Bureau, Amanda Brown was a fugitive from an unhappy past. In May, just one month before Guiteau’s first attempt on the President’s life, a lone woman was tasked with rooting out the threat to Garfield and his administration. But to the impressionable mind of an unbalanced observer named Charles Guiteau, there seemed only one way to relieve the tensions mounting in Washington D.C.- remove the man at the center of the controversy. Contentious appointment hearings, political backbiting, and scandal were nothing new. For months, factions of the Republican Party had been locked in an escalating tug of war, exacerbated by the surprise election of James A. In the spring of 1881, the United States was on the cusp of a national tragedy. She gets into one about twice a year, at Christmas time or some other high old time.” Sexism aside, Townsend didn’t underestimate the drink’s potency: “Just why she picks the Pink Lady for these occasions-since the Lady packs quite a wallop-remains a mystery, even to her perhaps,” he continued.One Woman Against an Assassin's Bullet. “She's that nice little girl who works in files, who's always so courteous but always seems so timid…Naturally you never expected to see her at a bar. The Pink Lady became a favorite of high-society ladies from the 1930s to the 1950s, and its reputation as a “girly” order was perhaps solidified in the 1951 title The Bartender’s Book, by Jack Townsend, the president of New York’s bartender’s union: “Why, surely you know her,” Townsend wrote of the typical Pink Lady imbiber. Like many Prohibition-era cocktails, the Pink Lady has an ambiguous history: Its invention was likely a solution to the cheap gin that marked the age adding other ingredients like brandy, lemon juice, and grenadine helped to mask the unpleasant flavor of the poor-quality spirits available at the time.
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