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Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""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 course, was the dinner-hour, when the family and guests were at table and the servants not on duty were amusing themselves in their own quarters. The fact of its being Christmas Eve would also of necessity add to the business and consequent distraction of the household. The entry to the house, however, in this case was not effected in the usual manner by a ladder to the dressing-room window, but through the window of a room on the ground floor - a small room with one window and two doors, one of which opens into the hall, and the other into a passage that leads by the back stairs to the bedroom floor....""
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 course, was the dinner-hour, when the family and guests were at table and the servants not on duty were amusing themselves in their own quarters. The fact of its being Christmas Eve would also of necessity add to the business and consequent distraction of the household.
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective' is a mystery novel written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis—and is also her best-known work. The lead crime-solver in this novel is Loveday Brooke, and she was once dubbed the "female Sherlock Holmes", with her collection of stories one of the bestselling successors to Sherlock Holmes.
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis by : Catherine Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis written by Catherine Pirkis and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
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Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
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Download or read book The Experience of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Mint Editions. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 becomes the go-to police consultant for any case that seems unsolvable. The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective is a collection of seven short stories, each portraying an individual mystery, varying crimes and intrigue. The Black Bag on the Doorstep is the first title in the collection, and follows a Christmas Eve robbery. Featuring a more heinous crime, The Murder at Troyte's Hill depicts a murder mystery after a local lodge-keeper is found dead in a ransacked room. Challenged with one of her most puzzling mysteries, Brooke attempts to find a young girl who vanished without a trace in the fan-favorite story, Missing. Unable to find a lead even after ten days of searching, the police are ready to give up, but Loveday Brooke is determined to reunite the girl with her family. With an original approach to the mystery genre, The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective was among Catherine Louisa Pirkis' most popular work. Often compared to Sherlock Holmes, Loveday Brooke remains to be a beloved and memorable character from the detective fiction genre, and is one of the earliest depictions of a woman working in the detective field in literature. With mysteries ranging from crimes of theft, murder, kidnap, and conspiracy, The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective provides a fun and fresh reading experience, as it has remained to be progressive and intriguing nearly one-hundred and thirty years after its original publication. This edition of The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis is now available in an easy-to-read font, and features a new, eye-catching cover design. With these accommodations, The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective is restored to modern standards while the original mastery of Catherine Louisa Pirkis' work is preserved.
Book Synopsis Catherine Louisa Pirkis by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book Catherine Louisa Pirkis written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a young lady like Loveday Brooke doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. Excerpts: "Loveday Brooke, at this period of her career, was a little over thirty years of age, and could be best described in a series of negations. "She was not tall, she was not short; she was not dark, she was not fair; she was neither handsome nor ugly. Her features were altogether nondescript; her one noticeable trait was a habit she had, when absorbed in thought, of dropping her eyelids over her eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and she appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit, instead of through a window. Her dress was invariably black, and was almost Quaker-like in its neat primness." But what one could say affirmatively about her was that Loveday Brooke was a naturally talented private detective, a chosen career that had cut her off sharply from her former associates and her position in society. She demonstrates her skills in these six short stories: 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 Fountain Lane, Missing!
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Catherine Louisa Pirkis by : Catherine Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Catherine Louisa Pirkis written by Catherine Pirkis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a young lady like Loveday Brooke doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. Excerpts: "Loveday Brooke, at this period of her career, was a little over thirty years of age, and could be best described in a series of negations. "She was not tall, she was not short; she was not dark, she was not fair; she was neither handsome nor ugly. Her features were altogether nondescript; her one noticeable trait was a habit she had, when absorbed in thought, of dropping her eyelids over her eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and she appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit, instead of through a window. Her dress was invariably black, and was almost Quaker-like in its neat primness."
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a young lady like Loveday Brooke doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. Excerpts: "Loveday Brooke, at this period of her career, was a little over thirty years of age, and could be best described in a series of negations. "She was not tall, she was not short; she was not dark, she was not fair; she was neither handsome nor ugly. Her features were altogether nondescript; her one noticeable trait was a habit she had, when absorbed in thought, of dropping her eyelids over her eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and she appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit, instead of through a window. Her dress was invariably black, and was almost Quaker-like in its neat primness." But what one could say affirmatively about her was that Loveday Brooke was a naturally talented private detective, a chosen career that had cut her off sharply from her former associates and her position in society. She demonstrates her skills in these six short stories: 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 Fountain Lane, Missing!
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It was, I suppose, the weak point of the house?""Quite so. A very weak point indeed. Craigen Court, the residence of Sir George and Lady Cathrow, is an oddly-built old place, jutting out in all directions, and as this window looked out upon a blank wall, it was filled in with stained glass, kept fastened by a strong brass catch, and never opened, day or night, ventilation being obtained by means of a glass ventilator fitted in the upper panes. It seems absurd to think that this window, being only about four feet from the ground, should have had neither iron bars nor shutters added to it; such, however, was the case. On the night of the robbery, someone within the house must have deliberately, and of intention, unfastened its only protection, the brass catch, and thus given the thieves easy entrance to the house.""Your suspicions, I suppose, centre upon the servants?""Undoubtedly; and it is in the servants' hall that your services will be required. The thieves, whoever they were, were perfectly cognizant of the ways of the house. Lady Cathrow's jewellery was kept in a safe in her dressing-room, and as the dressing-room was over the dining-room, Sir George was in the habit of saying that it was the 'safest' room in the house. (Note the pun, please; Sir George is rather proud of it.) By his orders the window of the dining-room immediately under the dressing-room window was always left unshuttered and without blind during dinner, and as a full stream of light thus fell through it on to the outside terrace, it would have been impossible for anyone to have placed a ladder there unseen.""I see from the newspapers that it was Sir George's invariable custom to fill his house and give a large dinner on Christmas Eve.""Yes. Sir George and Lady Cathrow are elderly people, with no family and few relatives, and have consequently a large amount of time to spend on their friends.""I suppose the key of the safe was frequently left in the possession of Lady Cathrow's maid?"
Book Synopsis Women of Mystery by : Martha Hailey DuBose
Download or read book Women of Mystery written by Martha Hailey DuBose and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-12-11 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this remarkable book, Martha Hailey DuBose has given those multitudes of readers who love the mystery novel an indispensable addition to their libraries. Unlike other works on the subject, Women of Mystery is not merely a directory of the novelists and their publications with a few biographical details. DuBose combines extensive research into the lives of significant women mystery writers from Anna Katherine Green and Mary Roberts Rinehart with critical essays on their work, anecdotes, contemporary reviews and opinions and some of the women's own comments. She takes us through the Golden Age of the British women mystery writers, Christie, Sayers, Marsh, Allingham and Tey, to the leading crime novelists of today, focused on the women who have become legends of the genre. And though she laments, "so many mysteries, so little time," she makes a good effort a mentioning "some of the best of the rest." When DuBose writes of the lives of her principal players, she relates them to their times, their families, their personal situations and above all to their books. She subtly points out that Sayers, whose experience with the men in her life was inevitably disastrous, created in Lord Peter the ideal lover -- one who is all that a woman desires and needs. DuBose gives us the curriculum vitae that Dorothy Sayers created to help her bring Peter Wimsey to a virtual actuality. Ngaio Marsh would give up an active presence in the theatrical world she loved, but she recreated it for herself as well as her readers in many of her novels. The biographies of these woman are as engrossing as the stories they wrote, and Martha DuBose has shined a different, intimate and intriguing light on them, their works, and the lives that informed those works. This book is so full of treasure it's hard to see how any mystery enthusiast will be able to do without it. And what a gift it would make for anyone on your list who has been heard to announce "I love a mystery." Some of the treats inside: In the Beginning: The Mothers of Detection Anna Katherine Green Mary Roberts Rinehart A Golden Era: The Genteel Puzzlers Agatha Christie Dorothy L. Sayers Ngaio Marsh Margery Allingham Josephine Tey Modern Motives: Mysteries of the Murderous Mind Patricia Highsmith P.D. James Ruth Rendell Mary Higgins Clark Sue Grafton and more!!
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This premium quality edition contains the complete original text of seven vintage mystery short stories, first published as a collection in 1894, in a newly edited and freshly typeset version. With a generous 6"x9" page size, this Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and modern page design that echoes the look and feel of traditional book publishing values exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. C. L. Pirkis...Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1841-1910) was a British author who published numerous short stories and 14 novels between 1877 and 1894. Best known today for her detective stories featuring Loveday Brooke, Pirkis, who published as "C. L. Pirkis" during her lifetime, was one of the earliest of many notable female mystery writers, and her creation, Loveday Brooke, was an early example of the formidable female sleuth mystery sub-genre. Loveday Brooke...By circumstances upon which Pirkis never elaborated, at about 24 years of age "Loveday had been thrown upon the world penniless and all but friendless." Discovering that she had no "marketable accomplishments," she embarked, for reasons never made clear, upon a career as a private detective, eventually coming to the attention of Ebenezer Dyer, head of a "flourishing" detective agency, who characterized his unconventional operative as having "so much common sense that it amounts to genius-positively to genius." Pirkis' stories include all the elements that fans of the classic "British" mystery expect-false identities, disguises, ciphers, secret messages, romantic entanglements, false clues and plot twists-but the occasionally unorthodox methods of the detective may be a bit unexpected. Relying more on deduction, intuition, and that "common sense" than upon minute scientific investigation of physical evidence, Loveday Brooke frequently surprises clients and suspects alike by making only the most cursory inspection of places and objects which would seem the most obvious, and important, possible sources of clues. But wrongdoers underestimate her at their peril, and clients, and occasionally colleagues, do so at the risk of personal or professional embarrassment, while generations of readers have enjoyed following along in The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. This volume contains these classic mystery short stories, first published in "The Ludgate Monthly" in London, between February and July, 1893, with the exception of "Missing!" which first appeared iin the original edition of this book in 1894: 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 Fountain Lane; Missing! This Summit Classic Press Edition is not an electronic scan or facsimile reproduction. The text has been formatted and edited by human editors. We have retained most antiquated, inconsistent, and "British" spellings, punctuation, and the like to preserve the integrity and flavor of the original work, rather than alter the material to conform to modern American conventions. Only obvious typographical misspellings and typesetter's errors have been corrected. The unabridged text of the 1894 compilation is faithfully reproduced in this volume. The cover illustration by Bernard Higham was among the illustrations which accompanied the stories in "Ludgate's", after the fashion of the British periodicals of the day, and originally appeared with "A Princess's Vengeance." Annotations, added sparingly by Summit Classic Press editors to aid modern readers, are not part of the original text.
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Illustrated by : Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Illustrated written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Louisa Pirkis (6 October 1839 - 4 October 1910) was a British author of detective fiction. Throughout her career as a writer, Pirkis would sometimes write under the name of "C.L. Pirkis", as to avoid gender association.
Book Synopsis The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Illustrated by : Catherine Louisa
Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Illustrated written by Catherine Louisa and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1841-1910) was a British author. She wrote numerous short stories and 14 novels between 1877 and 1894, and is perhaps best known today for her detective stories featuring Loveday Brooke. She moved from writing to animal charity work and, together with her husband, was one of the founders of the National Canine Defence League in 1891. Her works include The Experiences of Loveday Brooke: Lady Detective (1893).
Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by : Michael Sims
Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime written by Michael Sims and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Watchers written by Dean Koontz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “superior thriller”(Oakland Press) about a man, a dog, and a terrifying threat that could only have come from the imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been desperate to find some happiness in his lonely, seemingly cursed life. What he finds is a dog of alarming intelligence that soon leads him into a relentless storm of mankind’s darkest creation...
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Download or read book The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This premium quality large print edition contains the complete original text of seven vintage mystery short stories, first published as a collection in 1894, in a newly edited and freshly typeset version. With a large 7.44"x9.69" page size, this Summit Classic Press edition is printed on heavyweight bright white paper with a fully laminated cover featuring an original full color design. Page headers and modern page design that echoes the look and feel of traditional book publishing values exemplify the attention to detail given this volume. C. L. Pirkis...Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1841–1910) was a British author who published numerous short stories and 14 novels between 1877 and 1894. Best known today for her detective stories featuring Loveday Brooke, Pirkis, who published as "C. L. Pirkis" during her lifetime, was one of the earliest of many notable female mystery writers, and her creation, Loveday Brooke, was an early example of the formidable female sleuth mystery sub-genre. Loveday Brooke...By circumstances upon which Pirkis never elaborated, at about 24 years of age "Loveday had been thrown upon the world penniless and all but friendless." Discovering that she had no "marketable accomplishments," she embarked, for reasons never made clear, upon a career as a private detective, eventually coming to the attention of Ebenezer Dyer, head of a "flourishing" detective agency, who characterized his unconventional operative as having "so much common sense that it amounts to genius—positively to genius." Pirkis' stories include all the elements that fans of the classic "British" mystery expect—false identities, disguises, ciphers, secret messages, romantic entanglements, false clues and plot twists—but the occasionally unorthodox methods of the detective may be a bit unexpected. Relying more on deduction, intuition, and that "common sense" than upon minute scientific investigation of physical evidence, Loveday Brooke frequently surprises clients and suspects alike by making only the most cursory inspection of places and objects which would seem the most obvious, and important, possible sources of clues. But wrongdoers underestimate her at their peril, and clients, and occasionally colleagues, do so at the risk of personal or professional embarrassment, while generations of readers have enjoyed following along in The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. This volume contains these classic mystery short stories, first published in "The Ludgate Monthly" in London between February and July, 1893, with the exception of "Missing!" which first appeared iin the original edition of this book in 1894: 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 Fountain Lane; Missing! This Summit Classic Press Edition is not an electronic scan or facsimile reproduction. The text has been formatted and edited by human editors. We have retained most antiquated, inconsistent, and "British" spellings, punctuation, and the like to preserve the integrity and flavor of the original work, rather than alter the material to conform to modern American conventions. Only obvious typographical misspellings and typesetter's errors have been corrected. The unabridged text of the 1894 compilation is faithfully reproduced in this volume. The cover illustration by Bernard Higham was among the illustrations which accompanied the stories in "Ludgate's", after the fashion of the British periodicals of the day, and originally appeared with "A Princess's Vengeance." Annotations, added sparingly by Summit Classic Press editors to aid modern readers, are not part of the original text.
