Sherlock’s Sisters – Stories from the Golden Age of the Female Detective –

“Sherlock Holmes was the most famous detective to stride through the pages of late Victorian and Edwardian fiction, but he was not the only one. He had plenty of rivals. Some of the most memorable of these were women: they were ‘Sherlock’s Sisters’. This exciting, unusual anthology gathers together 15 stories written by women or featuring female detectives: Dora Bell, Loveday Brooke, Molle Delamere, Dorcas Dene, Constance Dunlap, Sarah Fairbanks, Hagar the Gypsy, Judith Lee, Diana Marburg, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Miss Florence Cusack, Madelyn Mack, Violet Strange, Nora van Snoop, Hilda Wade.”