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

The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael Sims (Editor), Michael Sims (Introduction by), Michael Sims (Notes by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2011-01-25Pages:352
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143106210ISBN-10:014310621XUPC:9780143106210Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Women SleuthsSize:7.70 x 5.12 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCRGQ2QH5Q
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780143106210ISBN-10:014310621XUPC:9780143106210Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, LiteraryBook Topic:Women SleuthsSize:7.70 x 5.12 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCRGQ2QH5Q
Michael Sims is the author of In the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries). He is also the author of Apollo's Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin's Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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Michael Sims (Editor), Michael Sims (Introduction by), Michael Sims (Notes by)

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