The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims

The Dead Witness by Michael Sims Gathering the finest adventures among private and police detectives from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-including a wide range of overlooked gems-Michael Sims showcases the writers who ever since have inspired the field of detective fiction. One can only hope for a sequel.' - Library Journal 'A genius cover design.

The crimes are ingenious, and there are diamonds aplenty.' -Los Angeles Times 'Fun to read and evokes a bygone period of crime fiction.

PRAISE FOR THE PENGUIN BOOK OF GASLIGHT CRIME- 'Excellent. Michael Sims, editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, has brought together some of the era's great crime-fighting females in a classic collection of suspense and charm. And, in crime fiction, female detectives such as Loveday Brooke and Dorcas Dene are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. She rides new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime by Michael Sims (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by) Move over, Holmes, the ladies have arrived! It is the late Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman.