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'The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective' is a mystery novel written by Catherine Louisa Pirkis—and is also her best-known work. The lead crime-solver in this novel is Loveday Brooke, and she was once dubbed the "female Sherlock Holmes", with her collection of stories one of the bestselling successors to Sherlock Holmes.
What is a young lady like Loveday Brooke doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. Excerpts: "Loveday Brooke, at this period of her career, was a little over thirty years of age, and could be best described in a series of negations. "She was not tall, she was not short; she was not dark, she was not fair; she was neither handsome nor ugly. Her features were altogether nondescript; her one noticeable trait was a habit she had, when absorbed in thought, of dropping her eyelids over her eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and she appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit, instead of through a window. Her dr...
What is a young lady like Loveday Brooke doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. Excerpts:"Loveday Brooke, at this period of her career, was a little over thirty years of age, and could be best described in a series of negations."She was not tall, she was not short; she was not dark, she was not fair; she was neither handsome nor ugly. Her features were altogether nondescript; her one noticeable trait was a habit she had, when absorbed in thought, of dropping her eyelids over her eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and she appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit, instead of through a window. Her dres...
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Catherine Louisa Lyne was born in London in 1839. She was the daughter of Lewis Stephens Lyne, an accountant and comptroller-general of Inland Revenue. When her father died in 1859, his obituary gave the cause of death as "the consequences of excessive exertion of the brain." In 1872, at the age of 33, Catherine married Frederick Edward Pirkis, fleet-paymaster for the Royal Navy. The couple tended to move fairly often. In 1874 Catherine gave birth to a daughter and two years later a son whilst in Belgium. It was only a few years later that her sister, Susan was to marry her husband's brother, George. The couples eventually decided to live together. Catherine wrote her first novel, Disappeare...
What is a young lady like Loveday Brooke doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. Excerpts:
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1841-1910) was a British author. She wrote numerous short stories and 14 novels between 1877 and 1894, and is perhaps best known today for her detective stories featuring Loveday Brooke. She moved from writing to animal charity work and, together with her husband, was one of the founders of the National Canine Defence League in 1891. Her works include The Experiences of Loveday Brooke: Lady Detective (1893).
A Dateless Bargain (1887) is a novel by Catherine Louis Pirkis. Known for her contribution of Victorian detective fiction, Pirkis wrote over a dozen novels and countless stories throughout her brief career as a professional writer. Among them, A Dateless Bargain is an undervalued study of family, class, and trauma that will be of particular interest to scholars of English aristocracy and the rise of the women’s rights movement. At their enormous estate in Gloucestershire, Mab and Joyce—daughters of the immensely wealthy Irving Shenstone—are decorating their father’s study in anticipation of his arrival by train. With the help of their gardener, they obtain hundreds of flowers to garn...
Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1841-1910) was a British author. She wrote numerous short stories and 14 novels between 1877 and 1894, and is perhaps best known today for her detective stories featuring Loveday Brooke. She moved from writing to animal charity work and, together with her husband, was one of the founders of the National Canine Defence League in 1891. Her works incl