There were several notable women detectives in 19th century popular
literature, such as Baroness Orczy's Lady Molly and George R. Sims'
Dorcas Dene, but Richard Marsh's Judith Lee is unique and amongst
the best. Her stories are forgotten classics of mystery fiction.
Like his illustrious model, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Marsh
relied on strongly-plotted yarns and a memorable hero: a
lip-reading young woman with the busybody nature of a Miss Marple
and the jujitsu knowledge of a Sherlock Holmes, facing a variety of
dastardly devils, damsels in distress, cads and shady sportsmen.
The Judith Lee stories were published to great acclaim in The
Strand Magazine starting in 1911 and were first collected in book
form in 1912. Their creator, Richard Marsh (1857-1915), was a
British author best remembered for his 1897 supernatural thriller
The Beetle. He was still writing Judith Lee stories when he passed
away, and his widow issued a final collection in 1916. This omnibus
volume includes both collections, as well as a never reprinted
story from 1916.
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