The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

Meet Loveday Brooke! Meet Loveday Brooke who worked with the police nearly twenty-five years before women were let onto the police force in the United Kingdom. Loveday has both the skills of disguise and analytical reasoning that helps her solve each crime in these seven atmospheric and entertaining mysteries from the gaslit era. While Holmes dominated the pages of The Strand, Loveday entertained readers of The Ludgate Monthly, employing her deductive or even intuitive powers to unravel the mysteries that come her way. "Continues to outshine the detective Sherlock Holmes in preternatural prescience... We are just afraid Miss Brooke is too clever in catching criminals ever to catch a husband." - Glasgow Herald, 1893 "The Loveday Brooke stories, challenge conventional critical assumptions about turn-of-the-century detective fiction, mass culture, and gender roles, and invite a more balanced view of the volatile cultural and literary climate of 1890s England." - Elizabeth Carolyn Miller in Victorian Literature and Culture (CUP)