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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective

By: C. L. Pirkis
Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
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Loveday Brooke is the first female detective created by a woman writer. Catherine Louisa Pirkis published stories about this smart, spirited sleuth in the 1880s, and they were collected into this anthology in 1894. In these tales, Loveday takes on cases involving wayward nuns, missing debutantes, a mysterious princess, and a ghost who resembles Napoleon, among other strange phenomena. Throughout, she is insightful, professional, and simply more intelligent than anyone else around her, indicating that Loveday and Pirkis were both ahead of their time. This collection includes seven stories: “The Black Bag Left on a Doorstep”, “The Murder at Troyte’s Hill”, “The Redhill Sisterhood”, “A Princess’ Vengeance”, “Drawn Daggers”, “The Ghost of Fountain Lane”, and “Missing”.

Public Domain (P)2020 Elizabeth Klett Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction
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The interest in these stories lie mainly in the fact that the heroine is playing an unusual role. I finally finished listening whilst I’ll and needing entertainment, as my husband and I had given up our earlier attempt because the odd emphases, strange forced accents and artificially pitched voice of the narrator ruined the stories.

Victorian story ruined by narrator

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The narration does not do justice to this excellent book. She is speeding through it as if there is a race to finish it. And the pitch of her voice (or whatever it’s called) is irritating. The sleuthing saves the audiobook.

Excellent Book - Narrator could be better

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I enjoy old as well as contemporary fiction, both for entertainment and context. The stories were much of their time, but good to have a female centre stage. Narration unfortunately didn’t enhance, particularly when accents were attempted- quite excruciating I am afraid.

Of their time

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gentle stories, which were very forward thinking for their time. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

really enjoyed these stories

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I couldn't listen for more than a few minutes, the high pitched voice of the narrator set my dog off!

My poor eardrums.

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