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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective - Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime (Hardcover)
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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective - Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime (Hardcover)
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If you are susceptible to Miss Marple and Harriet Vane you must
read The Adventures of Maud West. You will never know the
difference between fact and fiction again. Jill Paton Walsh, author
of the Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane mysteries Maud West ran her
detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having
started 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 both 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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