The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes

A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesnt like to be told what to do. And in crime fiction such female detectives as Loveday Brooke Dorcas Dene and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects crawling through secret passages fingerprinting corpses and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. InThe Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime Michael Sims has brought together all of the eras great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand. About the Author Michael Sims is the author ofIn the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries). He is also the author ofApollos Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007;Adams Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form which was aNew York Times Notable Book and aLibrary Journal Best Science Book; andDarwins Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts. For Penguin Classics he also editedThe Annotated Archy and Mehitabel Arsene Lupin Gentleman-Thief and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals from theWashington Post toNew Statesman.