Unnamed Private Detectives
Character Key Number:
2090
Display Name:
Unnamed Private Detectives
Sort Name:
Unnamed Private Detectives
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
When "Miss Zilphia Gant" learns that her former husband has married again "in a neighboring state," she travels to Memphis to engage a "private detective agency" to surveil him and his new wife. The story does not describe any of the individual detectives, but the agency sends her detailed accounts in weekly letters. (The history of American private detective agencies dates back to Allen Pinkerton, who started his National Detective Agency in 1850.)