The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims

Smart, funny, and wildly adventurous tales of women who refused to sit politely in the parlor and chat about fashion. Marple to V I Warshawski, as well as the great female criminal masterminds. The first-ever anthology devoted strictly to the pioneer female characters in crime fiction, the direct ancestors of everyone from Miss. Instead of attending tea parties and chatting about fashion, these pioneer women detectives are out shadowing suspects through London fog, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses - and sometimes committing a lesser cime in order to solve a murder.

In crime fiction as everywhere else, such women are breaking all the rules. She rides bicycles and drives those newfangled automobiles and doesn't like to be told what to do. It is the late Victorian era and society is fascinated by - and worried about - that suspicious character known as the New Woman. The second bullet (1915) / Anna Katharine Green.The man with nine lives (1914) / Hugh C.The man who cut off my hair (1912) / Richard Marsh.You can read this before The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of. The adventure of the cantankerous old lady (1899) / Grant Allen Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes written by Michael Sims which was published in.The man with the wild eyes (1897) / George R.That affair next door (1897) / Anna Katharine Green.The unknown weapon (1864) / Andrew Forrester.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims