Victorian Women in Crime

✍ Scribed by Sims, Michael (editor)

• Book ID: 108684619
• Publisher: Penguin
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101486177

✦ Synopsis

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