Queens of Mystery: 40+ Gripping Mysteries of Women Sleuths
Victorian and Edwardian Women Detectives in Classic Cases of Clues, Crime, and IntrigueBy Andrew Forrester, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Anna Katharine Green, Baroness Orczy, Old Sleuth
Length157h 30m
About this audiobook
Queens of Mystery gathers more than forty gripping tales in which women investigate crimes, decipher motives, and contest the assumptions that once confined them to the margins of detective fiction. Ranging from sensation-inflected intrigue and domestic mystery to ingenious puzzles, disguise plots, and courtroom-adjacent investigations, the volume illuminates the formative variety of popular crime writing. Its standout narratives place the woman sleuth at the center of action, making perception, social knowledge, and persistence essential instruments of detection. The contributors represent a rich cross-section of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century mystery culture. Their work emerges from the intertwined traditions of Victorian sensation fiction, the New Woman novel, penny-dreadful and magazine serialization, and the developing conventions of the Golden Age detective story. Across these varied professional and cultural settings, the collection's writers reimagine investigative authority: women are not merely victims, suspects, or romantic auxiliaries, but interpreters of evidence and agents of justice. The presence of both named authors and pseudonymous popular writers further reveals the genre's broad publishing ecology. Recommended for students, mystery devotees, and readers of women's literary history, this anthology offers an unusually capacious introduction to female detection before its modern canon hardened. Its many voices invite comparison across styles, social worlds, and narrative strategies, while fostering a lively dialogue about gender, crime, and literary ingenuity.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
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GenreMystery and Thriller
Length157 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Queens of Mystery: 40+ Gripping Mysteries of Women Sleuths
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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