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  • The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    Written in 1893 during the height of Sherlock Holmes’s popularity, a lady detective solves cases of stolen jewels, missing persons, and even murder...without letting her male colleagues slow her down!During a time when ladies were expected to indeed be demure and mindful, Loveday Brooke took no bullying from any man. Going head-to-head with a rival investigator or toe-to-toe wi...
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    11,81 €

  • Disappeared From Her Home
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    A gripping mystery from the Victorian era, 'Disappeared From Her Home' by Catherine Louisa Pirkis plunges readers into a perplexing case of missing persons. This classic detective investigation unfolds with suspense and intrigue as the story explores the unsettling disappearance of a woman from her home.A meticulously prepared republication of a historical text, this novel offe...
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    17,63 €

  • Disappeared From Her Home
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    A haunting invitation to look closer at a world that never fully released its secrets. Something about a quiet home becoming a theatre of disappearance and intrigue will stay with you long after the final line.Disappeared From Her Home gathers a chambered, atmospheric suspense from late nineteenth‑century Victorian England, where social norms are both guard and weapon. The tale...
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    17,68 €

  • A Dateless Bargain
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis / Louisa Catherine Pirkis
    A Dateless Bargain (1887) is a novel by Catherine Louis Pirkis. Known for her contribution of Victorian detective fiction, Pirkis wrote over a dozen novels and countless stories throughout her brief career as a professional writer. Among them, A Dateless Bargain is an undervalued study of family, class, and trauma that will be of particular interest to scholars of English arist...
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    11,39 €

  • A Red Sister
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    Lady Joan grew up in a modest household in a poor community. When she and her childhood friend, Elliot, fell in love as they grew older, Joan promised to wait for him, planning on marrying when Elliot rose to a higher position in society. However, as the wait grew longer, Joan became impatient. When the son of a wealthy coal owner began to express interest in her, Joan hardly ...
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    10,77 €

  • At the Moment of Victory
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    Madge Cohen does not regret her marriage to a man nearly twice her age, but looks forward to the day she is able to remarry. Young and lively, Madge was forced to marry Peter Cohen, a man nearly old enough to be her grandfather. While his wealth affords Madge new and greatly appreciated privileges, she finds Mr. Cohen to be boring. While Madge dreams of all the exciting things ...
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    10,77 €

  • The Experience of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    When Loveday Brooke falls from her place in London high society, losing her financial security, she has no choice but to become a working woman. Set in the Victorian era, it is considered unusual and even shameful for a woman to participate in the workforce, but when Brooke proves her ability, no man can deny or ignore her talent. Beginning a career as a detective, Brooke becom...
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    7,47 €

  • The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    ''It’s a big thing,'' said Loveday Brooke, addressing Ebenezer Dyer, chief of the well-known detective agency in Lynch Court, Fleet Street; ''Lady Cathrow has lost £30,000 worth of jewellery, if the newspaper accounts are to be trusted.''''They are fairly accurate this time. The robbery differs in few respects from the usual run of country-house robberies. The time chosen, of c...
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    17,47 €

  • The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    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...
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    29,86 €

  • The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    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!' The...
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    11,45 €

  • 2 Detectives
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis / Emmuska Orczy
    This volume of 2 Detectives pairs two early "lady detectives" who showed that intelligence, investigative skills, and courage were not limited to those of the masculine variety. Loveday Brooke's undercover skills allowed her to blend into the background and gather intelligence without tipping off the suspects. She was the consummate professional, much appreciated by her bos...
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    25,70 €

  • The Experiences Of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
    Catherine Louisa Pirkis
    The Experiences Of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective is a collection of six mystery stories written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis. The book was first published in 1894 and is considered to be one of the earliest examples of detective fiction featuring a female protagonist.The main character, Loveday Brooke, is a young and intelligent woman who works as a private detective in Victoria...
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    30,68 €