Truth and justice by way of clues

Read by Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe & David Shaw-Parker (Unabridged: 9hrs 33mins)

Featuring poems by Algernon Blackwood, A M Burrage, G K Chesterton, E M Delafield, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle & many more

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.

Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.

In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a range and depth to the whole culture of criminality as we send in the Long Arm of the Law to bring justice on behalf of the society it serves.

In this volume our authors are all women and bring, at times, a very different view of both the police and the underworld.

1 - The Detective - The Female Author - An Introduction

2 - The Scarecrow by Ethel Lina White

3 - Madame Ville D'Aubier by Josephine Tey

4 - They Don't Wear Labels by E M Delafield

5 - The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather

6 - A Princess's Vengeance by Catherine Louisa Pirkis

7 - The Story of 'The Spaniards', Hammersmith by Kate and Hesketh Pritchard

8 - A Twin Identity by Edith Stewart Drewery

9 - The Death Hound by Violet Mary Firth writing as Dion Fortune

10 - The Missing Model by Lettice Galbraith

11 - The Moving Finger by Rose Champion de Crespigny

12 - A Broken Trust by Elizabeth Corbett

13 - An Expiation by Arabella Kenealy

14 - Inquest by Leonara Wodehouse

15 - The Dead Hand by L T Meade and Robert Eustace

16 - The Murder In Saltashe Woods by Baroness Orczy

17 - The Adventures of Lady Pearl-Broker by Beatrice Heron-Maxwell

18 - The Man With No Face by Gertrude Minnie Robins

19 - Cheese - Bait For The Beast by Ethel Lina White