The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime
Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes
$40.79
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
18 February 2011
Summary
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 doesn’t 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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143106210 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014310621X |
| Author: | Michael Sims |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 18 February 2011 |
| Weight: | 289g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Audience Age: | 17-17 |
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About The Author
Michael Sims
Michael Sims is the author of In the Womb- Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries). He is also the author of Apollo’s Fire- A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day, which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007; Adam’s Navel- A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin’s Orchestra- An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts.
For Penguin Classics, he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime. He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman.
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