The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective
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her head, my name is not Jeremiah Bates."
"You mean the French maid?"
"Why, yes, of course. I take it there's little doubt but what she performed the double duty of unlocking the safe and the window too. You see I look at it this way, Miss Brooke: all girls have lovers, I say to myself, but a pretty girl like that French maid, is bound to have double the number of lovers than the plain ones. Now, of course, the greater the number of lovers, the greater the chance there is of a criminal being found among them. That's plain as a pikestaff, isn't it?"
"Just as plain."
Bates felt encouraged to proceed.
"Well, then, arguing on the same lines, I say to myself, this girl is only a pretty, silly thing, not an accomplished criminal, or she wouldn't have admitted leaving open the safe door; give her rope enough and she'll hang herself. In a day or two, if we let her alone, she'll be bolting off to join the fellow whose nest she has helped to feather, and we shall catch the pair of the
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I started to read this book to get a feeling for a woman detective during the early 1900's era.
I definitely enjoyed it!
I am not a voracious reader, mathematician at work, but this was fun.
I definitely enjoyed it!
I am not a voracious reader, mathematician at work, but this was fun.
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Miss Brooke, naturally, is far more clever than any male detectives, but her adventures have little spice.
06/21/2009