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A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
It is the late Victorian era and society is fascinated by - and worried about - that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides bicycles and drives those newfangled automobiles and doesn't like to be told what to do.
In crime fiction as everywhere else, such women are breaking all the rules. Instead of attending tea parties and chatting about fashion, these pioneer women detectives are out shadowing suspects through London fog, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses - and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder.
The first-ever anthology devoted strictly to the pioneer female characters in crime fiction, the direct ancestors of everyone from Miss Marple to V I Warshawski, as well as the great female criminal masterminds. Smart, funny, and wildly adventurous tales of women who refused to sit politely in the parlor and chat about fashion.
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Suggestions for Further Reading | p. xxv |
| The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime | |
| "The Mysterious Countess" (1864) | p. 5 |
| "The Unknown Weapon" (1864) | p. 33 |
| "Drawn Daggers" (1893) | p. 107 |
| "The Long Arm" (1895) | p. 133 |
| That Affair Next Door (1897) | p. 167 |
| "The Man with the Wild Eyes" (1897) | p. 181 |
| "The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady" (1899) | p. 213 |
| "How He Cut His Stick" (1900) | p. 235 |
| "The Man Who Cut Off My Hair" (1912) | p. 247 |
| "The Man with Nine Lives" (1914) | p. 267 |
| "The Second Bullet" (1915) | p. 303 |
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