We can read about just such women in The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, an anthology compiled by non-fiction author and anthologist Michael Sims (born in Tenessee in 1958), which brings together excerpts from stories about the best Victorian female crime fighters such as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly-and also a select group of criminals. Just imagine: an intrepid woman, in the Victorian age: she rides a bicycle, drives cars, breaks the rules, skips tea parties, takes fingerprints from a dead body, and commits lesser crimes to resolve tough cases (all considered nearly scandalous for the period).
The best stories from pioneers of mystery fiction.
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