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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
Able to assume a multitude of disguises and with analytical powers rivaling those of Sherlock Holmes, Loveday Brooke solves every perplexing crime in these seven atmospheric and entertaining Victorian mysteries.
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
""It's a big thing,"" said Loveday Brooke, addressing Ebenezer Dyer, chief of the well-known detective agency in Lynch Court, Fleet Street; ""Lady Cathrow has lost £30,000 worth of jewellery, if the newspaper accounts are to be trusted."" ""They are fairly accurate this time. The robbery differs in few respects from the usual run of country-house robberies. The time chosen, of course, was the dinner-hour, when the family and guests were at table and the servants not on duty were amusing themselves in their own quarters. The fact of its being Christmas Eve would also of necessity add to the business and consequent distraction of the household. The entry to the house, however, in this case was not effected in the usual manner by a ladder to the dressing-room window, but through the window of a room on the ground floor - a small room with one window and two doors, one of which opens into the hall, and the other into a passage that leads by the back stairs to the bedroom floor....""
Catherine Louisa Pirkis
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...
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
Catherine Louisa Pirkis - Loveday Brooke
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...
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
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
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...
A Dateless Bargain
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Catherine Louisa Pirkis (6 October 1839 - 4 October 1910) was a British author of detective fiction. Throughout her career as a writer, Pirkis would sometimes write under the name of "C.L. Pirkis", as to avoid gender association.
