The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: All the Great Detectives and a Few Great Crooks
by:
Michael Sims (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: 10352138
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Anthologies,
Mystery,
Detective,
19th Century,
Crime,
Short Stories,
Womens,
Fiction
WHY: 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 ...