Revelations Of A Lady Detective

Author : Illune Press,William Stephens Hayward
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798392774623

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Revelations of a Lady Detective by Illune Press,William Stephens Hayward Pdf

Written in 1864, this novel set in London depicts Victorian women under a new light thanks to "the initiative in works of progress" of the times, that challenged what was considered not to be "a woman's work". In this novel the English police started employing women in their task force as undercover detectives. Here in the Victorian London we meet Mrs. Paschal, a widow in financial trouble, who "verging upon forty" reinvented herself and "became one of the much-dreaded, but little-known people called Female Detectives". Under cover she bravely chases thieves to secret vaults full of gold, spies on an Italian secret society, solves crimes and rescues the day.

Author : William Stephens Hayward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 071235896X

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Revelations of a Lady Detective by William Stephens Hayward Pdf

In nineteenth-century London, middle-class women did not engage in what were seen as "unladylike activities." There were many jobs that a woman simply could not be expected to do because they were viewed as unsuitable for finer female sensibilities. The idea of a woman being involved in the murkiness of criminal detection must have seemed a radical and adventurous one in Victorian times: women simply did not do that sort of thing. And yet, in 1864, to the delight of men and women alike, two male authors published novels starring a female detective. William Stephens Hayward published Revelations of a Lady Detective just six months after Andrew Forrester's The Female Detective (republished by the British Library in 2012), making Hayward's the second novel ever published to feature a female detective. Hayward's heroine, Mrs. Paschal, is a very different character from her predecessor, Forrester's G. For a start, Mrs. Paschal is shown smoking on the front cover--an activity considered very modern and daring for women, even in the late nineteenth century. She is a widow, left close to financial ruin by the death of her husband, and supports herself through her detective work. This much racier female detective is however equally inventive, intuitive, and insightful, and with a Colt revolver in hand she works her way through a variety of cases involving theft, murder, and kidnapping. This very rare novel will be welcomed by all fans of Victorian crime fiction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017514972

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Revelations of a Lady Detective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrew Forrester (Jun.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B000657485

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The Female Detective by Andrew Forrester (Jun.) Pdf

Author : Kathleen Gregory Klein
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252064631

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The Woman Detective by Kathleen Gregory Klein Pdf

Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Women detectives
ISBN : OCLC:1062186632

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Revelations of a Lady Detective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:35770343

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Revelations of a Lady Detective by Anonim Pdf

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 2582 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525434757

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The Big Book of Female Detectives by Otto Penzler Pdf

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.

Author : Ellery Queen
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : 0819602388

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In the Queens' Parlor by Ellery Queen Pdf

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101486177

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The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims Pdf

A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.

Author : Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375423246

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The Full Cupboard of Life by Alexander McCall Smith Pdf

THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Book 5 Fans around the world adore the best-selling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe—with help from her loyal associate, Grace Makutsi—navigates her cases and her personal life with wisdom, good humor, and the occasional cup of tea. Still engaged to the estimable Mr J.L.B. Matekoni, Mma Ramotswe understands that she should not put too much pressure on him, as he has other concerns, especially a hair-raising request from the ever persuasive Mma Potokwane, matron of the orphan farm. Besides Mma Ramotswe herself has weighty matters on her mind. She has been approached by a wealthy lady to check up on several suitors. Are these men interested in the lady or just her money? This may be a difficult case, but it's just the kind of problem Mma Ramotswe likes and she is, as we know, a very intuitive lady.

Author : Dagni Bredesen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : UOM:39015087049980

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The First Female Detectives by Dagni Bredesen Pdf

First work originally published: London: Ward and Lock, 1864. 2nd work originally published: London: G. Vickers, 1864.

Author : Charles Felix
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066400095

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The Notting Hill Mystery by Charles Felix Pdf

Source documents compiled by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson are used to build a case against Baron "R___", who is suspected of murdering his wife. The baron's wife died from drinking a bottle of acid, apparently while sleepwalking in her husband's private laboratory. Henderson's suspicions are raised when he learns that the baron recently had purchased five life insurance policies for his wife. As Henderson investigates the case, he discovers not one but three murders. Although the baron's guilt is clear to the reader even from the outset, how he did it remains a mystery. Eventually this is revealed, but how to catch him becomes the final challenge; he seems to have committed the perfect crime.

Author : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473360990

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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis Pdf

This early work by Catherine Louisa Pirkis was originally published in 1894 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective' is a collection of short detective stories that include 'Drawn Daggers ', 'A Princess's Vengeance ', 'The Redhill Sisterhood', and several other classic tales of mystery. Catherine Louisa Pirkis was born in 1841 in London, England. It wasn't until 1877 that Perkis published her first novel 'Disappeared from Her Home'. She followed this with 'In a World of His Own' in 1878, and from then on she prolifically produced short stories, articles and novels. Her most lasting legacy is her creation of one of the earliest female detectives, Loveday Brooke, in the 1890's.

Author : Susannah Stapleton
Publisher : Picador
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1509867325

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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective by Susannah Stapleton Pdf

Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having starting sleuthing on behalf of society's finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world. And - as Susannah Stapleton reveals - she was a most unreliable witness to her own life. Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime? Interweaving tales from Maud West's own 'casebook' with social history and extensive original research, Stapleton investigates the stories Maud West told about herself in a quest to uncover the truth. With walk-on parts by Dr Crippen and Dorothy L. Sayers, Parisian gangsters and Continental blackmailers, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective is a portrait of a woman ahead of her time and a deliciously salacious glimpse into the underbelly of 'good society' during the first half of the twentieth century.