The First Lady Detectives

The pioneering women of detective fiction — Anna Katharine Green and the early female sleuths who solved crimes before it was respectable.

Women who cracked the case

In this collection

• The Markenmore Mystery
• The Mountain School-Teacher
• A Martian Odyssey
• The Curtain
• The Dream Snake
• Partners in Crime
• The Coming of Abel Behenna
• August Heat
• The Hatton Garden Crime
• The Flower of Hope
• Polaris of The Snows
• The Hollow Needle
• Urbain Grandier
• At the Sign of the Sword

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