The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Classics)

SUMMARY: 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. Introduction by Michael Sims Suggestions for Further Reading THE PENGUIN BOOK OF VICTORIAN WOMEN IN CRIME The Mysterious Countess (1864) W.S. Hayward The Unknown Weapon (1864) Andrew Forrester Drawn Daggers (1893) C.L. Pirkis The Long Arm (1895) Mary E. Wilkins That Affair Next Door (1897) Anna Katharine Green The Man with the Wild Eyes (1897) George R. Sims The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady (1899) Grant Allen How He Cut His Stick (1900) M. McDonnell Bodkin The Man Who Cut Off My Hair (1912) Richard Marsh The Man with Nine Lives (1914) Hugh C. Weir The Second Bullet (1915) Anna Katharine Green More Tags : Penguin Classics Version : 5.0