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 British Women Mystery Writers written by Mary Hadley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 209 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 The Big Book of Female Detectives written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 2582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler's new anthology brings together the most cunning, resourceful, and brilliant female sleuths in mystery fiction. A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original. For the first time ever, Otto Penzler gathers the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years, captivating and surprising readers in equal measure. The 74 handpicked stories in this collection introduce us to the most determined of gumshoe gals, from debutant detectives like Anna Katharine Green's Violet Strange to spinster sleuths like Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams, from groundbreaking female cops like Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly to contemporary crime-fighting P.I.s like Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone, and include indelible tales from Agatha Christie, Carolyn Wells, Edgar Wallace, L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace, Sara Paretsky, Nevada Barr, Linda Barnes, Laura Lippman, and many more.

Download or read book Sisterhood of Sleuths written by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman and published by . This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clever and thought-provoking mystery that pays homage to classic Nancy Drew stories, perfect for fans of Wendy Mass and Trenton Lee Stewart Maizy always assumed she knew everything about her grandmother, Jacuzzi. So when a box full of vintage Nancy Drew books gets left at her mom's thrift store, Maizy is surprised to find an old photo of her grandmother and two other women tucked beneath the collection. Stranger still, when Maizy shows the photo to Jacuzzi she feigns ignorance, insisting the woman is someone else. Determined to learn the truth -- and inspired by the legacy of Nancy Drew -- Maizy launches her own investigation with the help of new friends, Nell and Cam. What they discover not only points to the origins of the iconic series, but uncovers a truth from the past that will lead to self-discovery in the present, connecting three generations of women. This intergenerational mystery filled with literary history, friendship, and family secrets delivers a captivating tribute to the world's most famous girl detective.

Download or read book The Loyal Servant written by Eva Hudson and published by Two Pies Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Prize for fiction, The Loyal Servant is a fast-paced murder mystery and chart-topping political thriller. "A brilliantly-paced thriller... Perfectly balanced between character and plot. Very gripping and suspenseful" - Sophie Hannah Caroline Barber is a civil servant who is busy at work trying to avoid being laid off, and busy at home holding her noisy and demanding family together. Her dull daily routine is shattered when she discovers her boss – a senior politician – dead at his desk. Although the pills and whiskey bottle point to suicide, Caroline is certain he would never take his own life. Unable to accept the official version of events, she sets out to uncover the real reason the minister had to die and quickly discovers a web of secrets and lies spun by some very powerful men. Enlisting the help of a ruthless newspaper reporter, Caroline continues to dig, taking greater and greater risks until she uncovers a conspiracy shocking enough to bring down the government. Out of her depth and putting the safety of her family in jeopardy, will Caroline get the chance to expose the corruption? Or will she be silenced for good? A murder mystery with a killer twist: everything that happens to Caroline could happen to you. Anyone who's ever worked in an office should download this book now. Once you start reading, you won't be able to stop. Praise for The Loyal Servant "Deftly plotted, tightly paced and above all, very well written" "Cracking fast paced crime thriller, with many twists and turns" "A must read for any lover of thrillers, the fast pace and cliff hangers leave you unable to put it down" ABOUT EVA HUDSON After years of enjoying thrillers and police procedurals by authors like Lee Child and Michael Connelly, Eva was inspired to write thrillers herself. In 2011 she won the inaugural Lucy Cavendish fiction prize for her first novel, The Loyal Servant.

Download or read book One Deadly Sister written by Rod Hoisington and published by Rod Hoisington. This book was released on 2010-10-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An almost-too-clever young law student in Philadelphia gets a life-or-death call from her estranged brother who just moved to Florida--she tells him to go to hell. She doesn't need this. She's holding an old grudge and resents having her life interrupted.The brother doesn't come looking for trouble, he simply wants to get past his Philadelphia divorce and start a new life in Florida, but woman-trouble comes looking for him. Unfortunately, he arrives in the small Florida ocean side town just as someone murders the local gubernatorial candidate. The brother doesn't have a clue about women and gets seduced and framed.The brother hasn't bothered with his estranged sister up north for years, but now as a stranger in a hostile town she's his only hope. She reluctantly decides to at least check out her brother's predicament in Florida.This small step leads the sister into an ever-increasing entanglement of deceit, double-cross, and danger, as she can't leave well-enough alone and goes after the real killer in this fast-paced mystery. The first book in the Sandy Reid mystery series. THE PRICE OF CANDY is the second, and SUCH WICKED FRIENDS is the third.

Download or read book A is for Alibi written by Sue Grafton and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: READ THE SENSATIONAL BLOCKBUSTER THAT STARTED IT ALL! Take it from the top in #1 New York Times bestselling author Sue Grafton's knockout thriller that introduced detective Kinsey Millhone—and a hot new attitude—to crime fiction... A IS FOR AVENGER A tough-talking former cop, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has set up a modest detective agency in a quiet corner of Santa Teresa, California. A twice-divorced loner with few personal possessions and fewer personal attachments, she's got a soft spot for underdogs and lost causes. A IS FOR ACCUSED That's why she draws desperate clients like Nikki Fife. Eight years ago, she was convicted of killing her philandering husband. Now she's out on parole and needs Kinsey's help to find the real killer. But after all this time, clearing Nikki's bad name won't be easy. A IS FOR ALIBI If there's one thing that makes Kinsey Millhone feel alive, it's playing on the edge. When her investigation turns up a second corpse, more suspects, and a new reason to kill, Kinsey discovers that the edge is closer—and sharper—than she imagined. "A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow "V" Is for Vengeance "W" Is for Wasted "X"

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 Female Detective written by Andrew Forrester (Jun.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The PMS Murder written by Laura Levine and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I'm crazy about Laura Levine's mystery series. Her books are so outrageously funny." --Joanne Fluke On the frontlines of the battle of the bulge, otherwise known as trying on bathing suits in the communal dressing room at Loehmann's, freelance writer Jaine Austen makes a new friend--a wannabe actress named Pam--and gets a new job: sprucing up Pam's bare-bones resume. Their feeling of connection is mutual, so Pam invites Jaine to join The PMS Club–a women's support group that meets once a week over guacamole and margaritas. But joining the club proves to be more a curse than a blessing for Jaine. Though she is warned that Rochelle, the hostess, makes a guacamole to die for, Jaine never takes the warning literally. Until another PMS member, Marybeth, drops dead over a mouthful of the green stuff. Now instead of dishing dirt with The PMS Club, Jaine has to dig up the dirt on the surviving members. . . "Jaine can really dish it out." --The New York Times Book Review

Download or read book Women Sleuths written by Martin Harry Greenberg and published by Academy Chicago Publishers, Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Toys of Death" by G.D.H. and Margaret Cole; "The Calico Dog" by Mignon Eberhart; "The Book That Squealed" by Cornell Woolrich; and "The Broken Men" by Marcia Muller. Includes notes about the contributors.

Download or read book Senior Sleuths written by Cynthia Manson and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senior citizen sleuths prove that wisdom and aging go hand in hand in a collection of mystery tales by Agatha Christie, Lilian Jackson Braun, Loren D. Estleman, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Hugh Pentecost, Michael Gilbert, and other notable writers. Original.

Download or read book A Murder for Christmas written by P C James and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her hometown awash with crime, a sleuth must solve a slaying. Can she save her family from a treacherous plot? Yorkshire, England, 1962. Miss Riddell definitely isn't having a merry Christmas. With her mother sick and brother pestering her to investigate a forged will, the worst winter in decades has her longing to return to regular life. And just as a series of ugly incidents in the village pushes the pressure to a boiling point, things take a deadly turn when her cousin is brutally murdered. Convinced there's a devious link between the fraud and the death, Miss Riddell puts her sharp mind to work uncovering clues. But with the unscrupulous culprit evading police, she'll have to put everything on the line to corner the killer. Can Miss Riddell wrap up the case without becoming the next frozen corpse? A Murder for Christmas is the electric third tale in the Miss Riddell Cozy Mysteries series. If you like crafty heroines, perplexing puzzles, and charming Yuletide settings, then you'll love P.C. James' clever story. Buy A Murder for Christmas to set a cunning trap today!

Download or read book Women Sleuths written by Bill Pronzini and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Murder in the Cards written by Paige Sleuth and published by Marla Bradeen. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiffany Swanson doesn't want to solve murders, she just wants to play poker. But when she sees a crime scene through the eyes of one of her opponents, she finds herself all-in to catch a killer. Tiffany Swanson envisions big pots and big profits on her first day as a professional poker player. What she gets instead is the inside scoop to an unsolved murder. The image of the dead man comes to her in a flash—when she bumps into the victim's brother and picks up his memory of the crime scene. He's in Las Vegas with his buddies, celebrating his last weekend as a bachelor. Except right now he's doing more begging than celebrating as he tries to convince Tiffany to do some amateur sleuthing and help bring his brother's killer to justice. Tiffany intends to do nothing of the sort. She's not a police detective. She's not a private investigator. She's not even a true-crime aficionado. And she's definitely not telepathic—or so she's desperately trying to tell herself before she becomes another family black sheep like her kooky Vietnamese aunt Tuna. But all evidence indicates otherwise. And if there's a teeny, tiny chance she can help solve this homicide, doesn't she have an obligation to try? Hijinks and hilarity ensue when Tiffany reluctantly agrees to take on the case. But she's only got one weekend to figure out "whodunit" before all the suspects flee town—taking their deadly secrets with them. For fans of cat cozy mysteries with psychic and paranormal elements, clean murder mystery series, Asian American amateur women sleuth detectives, #ownvoices mixed race heroines, cozy mysteries with cats, casino mystery fiction, quirky characters, psychic amateur gumshoe investigator, murder investigations, big city crime fiction, and fun, humorous fiction set in Las Vegas.

Download or read book Sleuths in Skirts written by Frances A. DellaCava and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Download or read book Drowned in Cherry Hills written by Paige Sleuth and published by Marla Bradeen. This book was released on 2017-06-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the dead man's float isn't for survival . . . Kat Harper's morning workout takes a sinister turn when she discovers the lifeless body of Ellie Higgins in the gym pool. All evidence points to murder, and the amateur detective soon finds herself submerged in another homicide investigation. With her exercise plans derailed, Kat heads to the victim's house to take Ellie's newly orphaned Maine Coon cat into protective custody. But she receives her second surprise of the day when she inadvertently interrupts a burglary in progress. Is the break-in related to Ellie's murder, or did an opportunistic thief merely decide to take advantage of the late homeowner's permanent absence? Kat's not sure, but she's determined to find out. She had better be careful though. When the killer realizes Kat is getting close to uncovering the truth, the small-town sleuth's New Year's resolution to get into shape may turn into a death sentence. And, unfortunately for Kat, this is one time when her cats won't be around to save her. All of the Cozy Cat Caper Mystery books can be enjoyed as standalones but will be better appreciated as part of the series. The books are light, fun cozy mysteries featuring an animal-loving female amateur sleuth, lovable and not-so-lovable quirky characters, and a page-turning mystery that needs solving. None of the books include cliffhangers, bad language, or graphic scenes. keywords: murder mystery series, cat cozy mystery, amateur female sleuth, fun whodunit, mysteries with cats, amateur sleuth ebook, small-town detective books, women sleuths, animal mysteries in small towns, humorous crime caper, whimsical amateur investigator short reads, kitty mysteries, humor and hijinks, mystery ebooks, pet cozy mysteries, cozy mystery series, cozy murder mystery, cozy crime mystery books, cozy murder mysteries, kitty cozy criminal mysteries, animal cozy mystery, animal cozy, cozy mystery, cat cozy mysteries, whodunit mysteries, small town women sleuths, animal rescue ebooks, humorous crime whodunit, short fun clean ebooks, amateur detective series, kitty cozies, quick reads, ebook downloads, female gumshoe lead, wholesome whodunnit, felines in fiction, pet adoption, small town cop characters, foster care heroine, funny cat books, cat mystery and thriller books, cozy mystery books, cozy murder mystery series, cozy murder mystery that needs solving, cozy murder mystery books, cozy with murder, cozy cat caper murder mysteries, animal cozy mystery, animal cozies, kitty cozies, mystery books for adult women, fun kitty cozies, contemporary murder mystery ebook, cat caper crime mystery series, women gumshoe detectives who solve crimes, murder mysteries featuring cats, cozy mystery series set in small towns, women sleuths and quirky characters, humorous law enforcement fiction, animal cozy mysteries, clean murder mystery series, fiction featuring cats, whimsical women sleuths, cat cozy mysteries, murder mystery ebooks, amateur women sleuths, humorous crime capers, small-town relationships, felines in fiction, series that can be read as stand-alones, humorous small-town fiction, amateur women sleuths, animal stories, cozy murder mysteries, cat and animal cozies, clean mystery series, ebooks featuring amateur detectives, small town fiction starring gumshoe women sleuths, New Year's resolutions, seasonal winter reads