Lady Detectives: 46 Murder Mysteries
Forty-Six Victorian and Early Detective Tales of Women Sleuths, Locked Rooms, Disguises, and IntrigueBy Anna Katharine Green, Andrew Forrester, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Baroness Orczy, Old Sleuth
Length157h 30m
About this audiobook
Lady Detectives: 46 Murder Mysteries surveys the formative decades of detective fiction through investigations led by women whose powers of observation, deduction, disguise, and social intelligence unsettle conventional assumptions about gender and authority. Ranging from tightly plotted murder puzzles to sensation-inflected melodrama, domestic suspense, and adventures in urban detection, the volume reveals a genre experimenting with both forensic logic and the hidden dramas of household, class, and reputation. Its forty-six mysteries illuminate the remarkable elasticity of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century crime tale. The contributors collectively represent the transatlantic popular-fiction culture that helped establish crime writing as a major modern form. Anna Katharine Green's influential puzzle narratives, Andrew Forrester's early female investigator stories, Catherine Louisa Pirkis's professionalized detective figure, Baroness Orczy's tales of ingenuity and concealment, and the pseudonymous Old Sleuth's popular mysteries bring distinct literary traditions into conversation. Together, these voices trace the emergence of the woman detective alongside Victorian sensation fiction, New Woman debates, expanding print markets, and changing ideas of women's public competence. This anthology is recommended for readers of classic mysteries, gender studies, and literary history alike. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare narrative strategies and social worlds within one volume, while discovering how varied women investigators challenge, reinterpret, and enliven the conventions of murder fiction.
Audiobook details
GenreMystery and Thriller
Length157 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Lady Detectives: 46 Murder Mysteries
2Introduction
3Tenant For Life (pt. 1)
4Tenant For Life (pt. 2)
5Georgy
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6The Unraveled Mystery
7The Judgment of Conscience
8A Child Found Dead: Murder Or No Murder
9The Unknown Weapon (pt. 1)
10The Unknown Weapon (pt. 2)
11The Mystery
12THE END
13Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
14The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
15THE BLACK BAG LEFT ON A DOOR-STEP.
16THE MURDER AT TROYTE'S HILL.
17THE REDHILL SISTERHOOD.
18A PRINCESS'S VENGEANCE.
19DRAWN DAGGERS.
20THE GHOST OF FOUNTAIN LANE.
21MISSING!
22THE END
23Violet Strange
24Problem I. The Golden Slipper
25Problem III. An Intangible Clue
26Problem IV. The Grotto Spectre
27Problem V. The Dreaming Lady
28Problem VI. The House of Clocks
29Problem VII. The Doctor, His Wife, and the Clock
30Problem VIII. Missing: Page Thirteen
31Problem IX. Violet’s Own
32Reading suggestions
33Ebenezer Gryce
34The Leavenworth Case (pt. 1)
35The Leavenworth Case (pt. 2)
36The Leavenworth Case (pt. 3)
37The Leavenworth Case (pt. 4)
38The Leavenworth Case (pt. 5)
39A Strange Disappearance (pt. 1)
40A Strange Disappearance (pt. 2)
41A Strange Disappearance (pt. 3)
42The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (pt. 1)
43The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (pt. 2)
44The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (pt. 3)
45The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (pt. 4)
46The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow (pt. 5)
47The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life (pt. 1)
48The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life (pt. 2)
49The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life (pt. 3)
50The Sword of Damocles: A Story of New York Life (pt. 4)
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