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Sherlock's Sisters : Stories from the Golden Age of the Female Detective - Nick Rennison

Sherlock's Sisters

Stories from the Golden Age of the Female Detective

By: Nick Rennison (Editor)

Paperback | 21 September 2020

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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. They include Dorcas Dene, Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Hagar the Gypsy, Judith Lee and Madelyn Mack.

Editor Nick Rennison has already compiled several highly entertaining collections of stories from what he considers a golden age of crime fiction, including The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and Supernatural Sherlocks. His latest anthology turns the spotlight on the women detectives who could more than match their male counterparts.

About the Author

Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He is the editor of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and The Rivals of Dracula, both collections of short stories. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.
Industry Reviews
There are some very good stories here, some actually feel like they are adopting the Holmesian ethos; the use of observation and reasoning, (often traduced to deductive reasoning), the apparently inexplicable mystery and the plodding dullness of the police. Others are simply female detectives with their own way of doing things, none the worse for that. These stories make for a relaxing afternoon's reading and are a fascinating window on their times * Crime Time *

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