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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
- Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
Engelsk Paperback
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
- Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime
Engelsk Paperback

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Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having starting sleuthing on behalf of society’s finest in 1905. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world. And – as Susannah Stapleton reveals – she was a most unreliable witness to her own life.

Who was Maud? And what was the reality of being a female private detective in the Golden Age of Crime?

Interweaving tales from Maud West’s own ‘casebook’ with social history and extensive original research, Stapleton investigates the stories Maud West told about herself in a quest to uncover the truth.

With walk-on parts by Dr Crippen and Dorothy L. Sayers, Parisian gangsters and Continental blackmailers, The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective is a portrait of a woman ahead of her time and a deliciously salacious glimpse into the underbelly of ‘good society’ during the first half of the twentieth century.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
0
ISBN-13:
9781509867301
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1509867309
Udg. Dato:
13 jun 2019
Længde:
36mm
Bredde:
197mm
Højde:
131mm
Forlag:
Pan Macmillan
Oplagsdato:
13 jun 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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