Download or read book Sister Sleuths written by Nell Darby and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-03-03 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A unique and inherently fascinating history that brings a particular aspect of the role of women in law enforcement up out of obscurity.” —Midwest Book Review The 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery—and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning secrets and finding evidence. Over the course of the next century, women became increasingly confident in gaining work as private detectives, moving from largely unrecognized helpers to the police and to male detectives, to becoming owners of their own detective agencies. In fiction, they were depicted as exciting creatures needing money and work; in fact, they were of varying ages, backgrounds and marital status, seeking adventure and independence as much as money. Former actresses found that detective work utilized their skills at adopting different roles and disguises; former spiritualists were drafted to denounce frauds and stayed to become successful private eyes; and several female detectives became keen supporters of the women’s suffrage movement, having seen for themselves how career-minded women faced obstacles in British society. Sister Sleuths seeks to shed light on the groundbreaking women who have worked over the past century and a half to uncover wrongdoing and solve crimes. “The book is well-researched and provides numerous examples of women who either dabbled in investigation or made it their life’s work.” —Historical Novel Society “Absolutely enthralling stuff.” —Books Monthly

Download or read book Incredible Episodes in the Life of a Female Private Investigator written by Paula Bolin and published by Vantage Press. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Woman Detective written by Kathleen Gregory Klein and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Gregory Klein traces female paid, professional private investigators in British, Canadian, and American novels, revealing that the detective novel is both a reflection of and potential barrier to social change for women. This edition adds sixty new female private eyes to the roster and includes an afterword that assesses the current state of the genre's new and old novels. A comprehensive bibliography and a character list update the field through mid-1994.

Download or read book The Unknown Woman written by Thomas Fincham and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Would you sacrifice your life to save your daughter? With over 500,000 copies sold and thousands of 5-star reviews between them, the Lee Callaway series will leave you turning the pages to know what happened next. A man is found dead in a motel room with over two-hundred thousand dollars in cash and gold in his possession. The man has never made more than minimum wage in his entire life. As Detective Fisher and Detective Holt dig into the man's past, they uncover something far more deadly and sinister. Private Investigator Lee Callaway is pulled into a case by his daughter, Nina. She wants Callaway to help her friend find out the truth behind the death of her mother at the hands of her father. Reluctantly, Callaway takes on the case. But his search leads him down a path that may be far more complicated and dangerous for everyone involved-including his own family! Fans of James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and David Baldacci will love this bestselling series. Praise for Thomas Fincham ★★★★★ "James Patterson look out." ★★★★★ "Thomas Fincham kept me up until almost 2am with this Lee Callaway novel." ★★★★★ "Type faster Mr. Fincham!" ★★★★★ "I LOVE a good mystery and this is a good one. I TOTALLY ENJOYED the journey. I will definitely look for more books by Thomas Fincham." ★★★★★ "Another good one by Mr. Fincham! I recently "discovered" his work and love his books! This book certainly did not disappoint." ★★★★★ "It's beyond 5 stars once you get into the book it's Unstoppable total page-turner thank you Thomas Fincham." ★★★★★ "Was up until 6 AM finishing this book because I could not put it down. I will definitely be reading more books by Mr. Fincham." ★★★★★ "Deff. Patterson style, kept me on the edge of my seat, going to read rest of series." ★★★★★ "Thank you so much Mr Fincham." ★★★★★ "This is my first Fincham book, but certainly not the last!"

Download or read book Pistols and Petticoats written by Erika Janik and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively exploration of the struggles faced by women in law enforcement and mystery fiction for the past 175 years In 1910, Alice Wells took the oath to join the all-male Los Angeles Police Department. She wore no uniform, carried no weapon, and kept her badge stuffed in her pocketbook. She wasn’t the first or only policewoman, but she became the movement’s most visible voice. Police work from its very beginning was considered a male domain, far too dangerous and rough for a respectable woman to even contemplate doing, much less take on as a profession. A policewoman worked outside the home, walking dangerous city streets late at night to confront burglars, drunks, scam artists, and prostitutes. To solve crimes, she observed, collected evidence, and used reason and logic—traits typically associated with men. And most controversially of all, she had a purpose separate from her husband, children, and home. Women who donned the badge faced harassment and discrimination. It would take more than seventy years for women to enter the force as full-fledged officers. Yet within the covers of popular fiction, women not only wrote mysteries but also created female characters that handily solved crimes. Smart, independent, and courageous, these nineteenth- and early twentieth-century female sleuths (including a healthy number created by male writers) set the stage for Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski, Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta, and Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone, as well as TV detectives such as Prime Suspect’s Jane Tennison and Law and Order’s Olivia Benson. The authors were not amateurs dabbling in detection but professional writers who helped define the genre and competed with men, often to greater success. Pistols and Petticoats tells the story of women’s very early place in crime fiction and their public crusade to transform policing. Whether real or fictional, investigating women were nearly always at odds with society. Most women refused to let that stop them, paving the way to a modern professional life for women on the force and in popular culture.

Download or read book The Broken Mother written by Thomas Fincham and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What could push a mother to harm her son? With over 500,000 copies sold and thousands of 5-star reviews between them, the Lee Callaway series will leave you turning the pages to know what happened next. Three women are found murdered inside a women's shelter. Detective Dana Fisher and Detective Greg Holt are tasked to find who is behind this horrific act. Fisher believes it could be a hate crime, while Holt has his reservations. This puts a strain on their working relationship, which could have an impact on their investigation. Private Investigator Lee Callaway is struggling to find a new case when a woman shows up at his doorstep unannounced. She wants Callaway to find out what happened on the day her son had died eight years ago. As Callaway digs deeper into the woman's case, he can't help but wonder if the judge had gotten it right and that the woman might have actually killed her son. Fans of James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and David Baldacci will love this bestselling series. Praise for Thomas Fincham ★★★★★ "James Patterson look out." ★★★★★ "Thomas Fincham kept me up until almost 2am with this Lee Callaway novel." ★★★★★ "Type faster Mr. Fincham!" ★★★★★ "I LOVE a good mystery and this is a good one. I TOTALLY ENJOYED the journey. I will definitely look for more books by Thomas Fincham." ★★★★★ "Another good one by Mr. Fincham! I recently "discovered" his work and love his books! This book certainly did not disappoint." ★★★★★ "It's beyond 5 stars once you get into the book it's Unstoppable total page-turner thank you Thomas Fincham." ★★★★★ "Was up until 6 AM finishing this book because I could not put it down. I will definitely be reading more books by Mr. Fincham." ★★★★★ "Deff. Patterson style, kept me on the edge of my seat, going to read rest of series." ★★★★★ "Thank you so much Mr Fincham." ★★★★★ "This is my first Fincham book, but certainly not the last!"

Download or read book Tell Me Everything written by Erika Krouse and published by Flatiron Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. “I don’t know why I’m telling you this,” people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she’s doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway, inspired by Grayson’s conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she could, too. Over the next five years, Erika learns everything she can about P. I. technique, tracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the university’s football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case that revolutionizes Title IX law, Erika finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time, Erika must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself.

Download or read book Television s Female Spies and Crimefighters written by Karen A. Romanko and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emma Peel wearing her "kinky boots." Amanda King and her poppy seed cake. Julie Barnes at her hippie pad. Honey West with her pet ocelot. Television's female spies and crimefighters make quite an impression, yet there hasn't been a reference book devoted to them until now. This encyclopedic work covers 350 female spies, private investigators, amateur sleuths, police detectives, federal agents and crime-fighting superheroes who have appeared in more than 250 series since the 1950s, with an emphasis on lead or noteworthy characters. Entries are alphabetical by series, featuring credits and synopses, notable plot points, interesting facts and critical commentary on seminal series and characters. A brief history of female spies and crimefighters on TV places them in chronological perspective and sociological context.

Download or read book Seeing Life through Private Eyes written by Thomas G. Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is full of obstacles, and in today’s complicated, hyperconnected world we are all seeking to gain insight and knowledge that will allow us to take charge of our own safety and well-being. As a highly decorated former DEA agent and leading private investigator, Thomas G. Martin has seen every kind of trouble there is. In Seeing Life through Private Eyes,he provides a wealth of experience, insider information, and valuable advice to readers of every background navigating life’s inevitable challenges. Domestic difficulties and divorce, adoption and runaways, background checks and corporate espionage, home protection and traveling wisely: whatever your issue, Seeing Life through Private Eyes offers the secrets to living safer, smarter, and saner. And just as a good investigator should, it guarantees readers the most valuable feeling of all: peace of mind.

Download or read book British Women Mystery Writers written by Mary Hadley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many aspects of British detective fiction are intriguingly different from the American detective fiction. And, confusingly, many of the British women detectives who have made it to American television are far from typical of the latest women detectives. This work is a study of British detective fiction with female protagonists written by women. Authors included are P.D. James, Jennie Melville, Liza Cody, Val McDermid, Joan Smith and Susan Moody. Special attention is paid to the evolution of the British female sleuth from the 1960s to the year 2000, particularly the 1980s, and how this shaped and altered detective fiction. Also discussed is the effect of the British judicial system and gun laws on detective fiction and real life, the types of crimes women detectives usually investigate, why certain directions have been taken and which ones may be taken in the future, issues being raised by the authors, and new women authors of detective fiction with female protagonists.

Download or read book An Unsuitable Job for a Woman written by P.D. James and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Unsuitable Job for a Woman introduces bestselling mystery author P.D. James’s courageous but vulnerable young detective, Cordelia Gray, in a “top-rated puzzle of peril that holds you all the way” (The New York Times). Handsome Cambridge dropout Mark Callender died hanging by the neck with a faint trace of lipstick on his mouth. When the official verdict is suicide, his wealthy father hires fledgling private investigator Cordelia Gray to find out what led him to self-destruction. What she discovers instead is a twisting trail of secrets and sins, and the strong scent of murder.

Download or read book Pinkerton s First Lady Kate Warne written by John Derrig and published by Spider Books Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this HISTORICAL-FICTION, Kate Warne was the first female detective in the United States, hired by Allen Pinkerton in 1856. Kate did not flaunt her beliefs of women rights; however she went about it the right way by speaking about and visualizing how women would be very useful as undercover detectives. She was very capable of speaking to the fact, and did so often, that women have the physical and mental natural abilities to fit in, mingle, and investigate, and during the year 1856 no one would have suspected her as being a detective employed by a law enforcement agency. Warne went further, she did not just talk it, she walked the walk and became a very important member of the Pinkerton Agency, criminal investigator, and spy during the civil war period. Warne later was assigned as being head of female detectives, training, mentoring and hiring those women she thought would be a good fit as a detective. Kate Warne's accomplishments brought forth the hiring of all future female detectives as she was a pioneer and first among a male dominated profession. Our modern day female police officers and detectives owe a debt of gratitude to Kate Warne and Allen Pinkerton. All known facts have been entered accurately, although very little is known about her, hence the need to embellish her story into what feels like what may have happened.

Download or read book A Woman s Place written by Linda Grant and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When private investigator Catherine Sayler is called in by the Systech corporation to find out who's sending lewd messages through the company's E-mail, the case seems merely routine. The situation changes for the worse when female employees start receiving photographs of women being tortured. But those incidents seem like childish pranks compared to Catherine's next discovery: a brutal murder. When the perverted killer begins to stalk Catherine with his twisted games, she finds it will take all her strength and intelligence to meet the inevitable confrontation. And only one of them will survive....

Download or read book The Adventures of Maud West Lady Detective written by Susannah Stapleton and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the difference between fact and fiction again.' – Jill Paton Walsh, author of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries. Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing on behalf of society’s finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world. And – as historical researcher Susannah Stapleton reveals – she was a most unreliable witness to her own life. Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime? Interweaving tales from Maud West’s own ‘casebook’ with social history and extensive original research, Stapleton investigates the stories Maud West told about herself in a quest to uncover the truth. With walk-on parts by Dr Crippen and Dorothy L. Sayers, Parisian gangsters and Continental blackmailers, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective is both a portrait of a woman ahead of her time and a deliciously salacious glimpse into the underbelly of ‘good society’ during the first half of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Undercover Disguise Methods for Investigators written by Arabella Mazzuki and published by Charles C Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to master of disguise is a difficult and exciting one, fraught with equal parts danger and intrigue, but fortunately you don’t have to go it alone. The book you now hold in your hands will serve as a roadmap through the disguise terrain; novices and masters alike will find in these pages invaluable wisdom, advice and guidance previously unavailable in such a concise format. Recent years have seen unprecedented technology advancements. However, investigation and intelligence agencies still need field personnel; they need feet on the ground. To be effective, investigators and clandestine service persons need strong tradecraft skills that include the ability to disguise themselves. This book presents undercover disguise methods that came into focus in the clandestine services of World War II, evolved during the Cold War, and today features modern innovations. Here the reader discovers the latest disguise technologies, traditional and innovative methods not taught by police academies or included in college law enforcement and criminal justice curriculums. Customary purposes for disguise include to avoid recognition, support a pretext character and the corresponding undercover operation, prevent somebody accurately describing the agent, and to thwart physical surveillance. Naturally, some disguises are quicker to implement than others and some are more believable. Some disguises withstand prolonged close-up scrutiny, whereas others are suitable only when viewed briefly or from afar. The authors have removed the mystery and made short work of carving out a path for anyone looking to hone their craft in the art of disguise, ensuring success for all who are daring enough to pursue this road less traveled.

Download or read book Private Investigation and Process Serving written by Raymond P. Siljander and published by Charles C. Thomas Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Myth and Ritual in Women s Detective Fiction written by Christine A. Jackson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between traditional myths, fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this critical study. Using theories from Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung and others, the author asserts that plots and imagery in these novels conform to quest narratives outlined in classical myths and traditional fairytales. Narcissus, Medusa, Orpheus and Orestes are a few of the figures emerging in today's mystery fiction. Among the mystery authors discussed are Patricia Cornwell, Amanda Cross, Sue Grafton, P.D. James, Sara Paretsky and Julie Smith. After establishing the anatomy of a mystery, the text discusses many myths, rituals and rites associated with mysteries, including myths of identity, religion and rites of initiation.