Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1841–1910)
Author of The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
About the Author
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Works by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
A Dateless Bargain 2 copies
Trooping with Crows 1 copy
The Road from Ruin 1 copy
At the Moment of Victory 1 copy
Lady Lovelace 1 copy
Judith Wynne, a novel 1 copy
Wanted, an Heir 1 copy
A Very Opal 1 copy
In a World of his own 1 copy
Disappeared from Her Home 1 copy
Associated Works
The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime: Forgotten Cops and Private Eyes from the Time of Sherlock Holmes (2011) — Contributor — 196 copies
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1997) — Contributor — 185 copies
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (2011) — Contributor — 142 copies
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Contributor; Contributor — 109 copies
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Contributor — 104 copies
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Contributor — 94 copies
The Lady Sleuths MEGAPACK ®: 20 Modern and Classic Tales of Female Detectives (2014) — Contributor — 16 copies
Female Sleuths Megapack: Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, Loveday Brooke, and Amelia Butterworth (2014) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Lady Detectives: Four BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramatisations — Contributor — 2 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Pirkis, C.L.
- Birthdate
- 1841
- Date of death
- 1910-10-04
- Burial location
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Occupations
- short story writer
detective fiction author
novelist - Organizations
- National Canine Defence League
- Short biography
- Catherine Louisa Pirkis was the first British woman to publish stories about a female detective. Together with her husband, a naval officer, she was one of the co-founders of the National Canine Defence League.
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Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective by Catherine Louisa Pirkis
This was first published in 1893, so it was perfectly without anachronisms. The mysteries were cleverly solved by a Holmes/Marple combination of astute observation and logic.
These stories were first published in The Ludgate Monthly, London, February-July 1893, with the exception of "Missing", which was first published in book form as part of The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective, London: Hutchinson & Co., 1894.This is a collection of stories about one of the first female detectives. I found them to be delightful.
Not the first lady detective, but an early one; interesting short stories though with a rather mushy sentimental frame story.
Catherine Louisa Pirkis who died in 1910,wrote several melodramas and this one volume of short stories. These seven stories which feature the early female detective Loveday Brooke are of considerable interest both to the general reader of crime fiction and to the more enthusiastic specialist.
Brooke is employed by Ebenezer Dyer who runs a detective agency in London. This firm is frequently consulted by the official police (things just don't change do they ?) Loveday is most useful in working undercover in a variety of jobs close to the scene of the crime,where a man could not go.
These are well written early stories in this ever popular genre.… (more)
Brooke is employed by Ebenezer Dyer who runs a detective agency in London. This firm is frequently consulted by the official police (things just don't change do they ?) Loveday is most useful in working undercover in a variety of jobs close to the scene of the crime,where a man could not go.
These are well written early stories in this ever popular genre.… (more)
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- Works
- 21
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- Members
- 98
- Popularity
- #193,038
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 5
- ISBNs
- 46