The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective - Paperback

by Catherine Louisa Pirkis (Author)

Miss Loveday Brooke was one of the of the very first fictional female detectives -- an unheard-of profession for a woman in Victorian London. This volume collects seven of her classic adventures: "The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step," "The Murder at Troyte's Hill," "The Redhill Sisterhood," "A Princess's Vengeance," "Drawn Daggers," "The Ghost of Foutain Lane," and "Missing " These stories all originally appeared in Ludgate Magazine in the 1890s.