Miss Loveday Brooke was one of the of the very first fictional female detectives -- an unheard-of profession for a woman in Victorian London. This volume collects seven of her classic adventures: The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step The Murder at Troytes Hill The Redhill Sisterhood A Princesss Vengeance Drawn Daggers The Ghost of Foutain Lane and Missing! These stories all originally appeared in Ludgate Magazine in the 1890s.