The history of the UK's real-life female detectives told for the first time. The female detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years, from plucky Victorian lady detectives, to busy-body spinster Miss Marple and fearless modern investigators like Mma Ramotswe and Lisbeth Salander. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales what crimes did they solve, and where are their stories? In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK's female investigators for the first time, uncovering the truth about their lives and careers from the 1860s to the present day. Women like Annie Betts the 'Lady Sherlock Holmes' one of the first shop detectives and Annette Kerner 'the woman of a hundred faces' who opened The Mayfair Detective Agency in the 1920s. In a uniquely immersive approach the author will follow in the footsteps of her subjects, undertaking a professional qualification to become a Private Investigator and shadowing modern PIs to find out what it's really like to be paid to spy on people's lives. AUTHOR: Caitlin Davies is a novelist, non-fiction writer, award-winning journalist and teacher. She is the author of six novels, six non-fiction books, and several short stories. She has written for The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Her books include 'Bad Girls: a History of Rebels and Renegades', a history of Holloway Prison, and 'Queens of the Underworld' about female crooks. She lives in London. 30 b/w illustrations
The history of the UK's real-life female detectives told for the first time. The female detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years, from plucky Victorian lady detectives, to busy-body spinster Miss Marple and fearless modern investigators like Mma Ramotswe and Lisbeth Salander. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales what crimes did they solve, and where are their stories? In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK's female investigators for the first time, uncovering the truth about their lives and careers from the 1860s to the present day. Women like Annie Betts the 'Lady Sherlock Holmes' one of the first shop detectives and Annette Kerner 'the woman of a hundred faces' who opened The Mayfair Detective Agency in the 1920s. In a uniquely immersive approach the author will follow in the footsteps of her subjects, undertaking a professional qualification to become a Private Investigator and shadowing modern PIs to find out what it's really like to be paid to spy on people's lives. AUTHOR: Caitlin Davies is a novelist, non-fiction writer, award-winning journalist and teacher. She is the author of six novels, six non-fiction books, and several short stories. She has written for The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Her books include 'Bad Girls: a History of Rebels and Renegades', a history of Holloway Prison, and 'Queens of the Underworld' about female crooks. She lives in London. 30 b/w illustrations
The history of the UK’s real-life female detectives told for the first time
Caitlin Davies is a novelist, non-fiction writer, award-winning journalist and teacher. She is the author of six novels, six non-fiction books, and several short stories. She has written for The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Her books include 'Bad Girls: a History of Rebels and Renegades', a history of Holloway Prison, and 'Queens of the Underworld' about female crooks. She lives in London.
'Intriguing and informative, Private Inquiries is a fascinating
piece of detective work.' Martin Edwards, President of the
Detection Club
'Davies is a great storyteller and this is feast of true crime and
women’s place in history. Fascinating and utterly riveting.'
Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, KC
‘Private Inquiries is a must-read – a riveting mythbuster, with its
revelations of the real histories of women PIs.’ – Val McDermid
‘Every page teems with larger-than-life characters – women who
broke the mould and the accepted rules to make their way in a
traditionally male world of private investigation. It is a story
told with style and panache by an author who not only talks the
talk but has walked the walk, training as an investigator herself.’
– Daniel Smith, author of Scandal at Dolphin Square: A Notorious
History
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