Private Inquiries
Caitlin Davies
The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales?_x000D_ Dismissed as 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century - everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK's female investigators. Women like Victorian private inquiry agent Antonia Moser, the first woman to open her own agency and Liverpool sleuth Zena Scott-Archer, who became the first woman president of the World Association of Detectives. Caitlin also follows in the footsteps of her subjects, undertaking a professional qualification to become a Private Investigator. After a century of undercover work, it's time to reveal the secrets of their trailblazing forebears.
Duration - 9h 39m.
Author - Caitlin Davies.
Narrator - Annie Aldington.
Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2023 Caitlin Davies ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
The female private detective has been a staple of popular culture for over 150 years. But what about the real-life women behind these fictional tales?_x000D_ Dismissed as 'Mrs Sherlock Holmes' or amateurish Miss Marples, mocked as private dicks or honey trappers, they have been investigating crime since the mid-nineteenth century - everything from theft and fraud to romance scams and murder. In Private Inquiries, Caitlin Davies traces the history of the UK's female investigators. Women like Victorian private inquiry agent Antonia Moser, the first woman to open her own agency and Liverpool sleuth Zena Scott-Archer, who became the first woman president of the World Association of Detectives. Caitlin also follows in the footsteps of her subjects, undertaking a professional qualification to become a Private Investigator. After a century of undercover work, it's time to reveal the secrets of their trailblazing forebears. Duration - 9h 39m. Author - Caitlin Davies. Narrator - Annie Aldington. Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024. Copyright - © 2023 Caitlin Davies ©.
Language:
English
Prologue: Case No. 480
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Chapter 1: A Consulting Detective
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Chapter 2: How to Become a Private Eye
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Chapter 3: Inspector Field and the Peephole Servants
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Chapter 4: A Special Detector
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Chapter 5: Clubnose
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Chapter 6: Secret Watchings
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Chapter 7: A Profession for Charlatans
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Chapter 8: Assessment Day
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Chapter 9: Antonia Moser: Detective Expert
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Chapter 10: Adventures of a Woman Detective
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Chapter 11: Kate Easton: 'I Can Shoot Straight'
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Chapter 12: A Dominant Face for a Woman
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Chapter 13: Lady Detective and Wizard
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Chapter 14: The Lady Copper
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Chapter 15: The Women 'Tecs of Baker Street
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Chapter 16: An Underground Job
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Chapter 17: A Clean Profession
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Chapter 18: May Storey: A Great Career for a Girl
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Chapter 19: A Modest Woman
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Chapter 20: Annette Kerner: The Mayfair Detective Agency
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Chapter 21: Truth and Lies
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Chapter 22: The Case of the Disappearing Whisky
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Chapter 23: A Woman Private Dick
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Chapter 24: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
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Chapter 25: Zena Scott-Archer: Scott's Detective Bureau
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Chapter 26: Merseyside's Mrs Sherlock Holmes
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Chapter 27: Duly Served
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Chapter 28: A Dangerous Profession
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Chapter 29: Anne Summer: 'I Couldn't Do That!'
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Chapter 30: A Toothsome Sleuth
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Chapter 31: Lady Gumshoe
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Chapter 32: 'She-lock Holmes'
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Chapter 33: Private Lives
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Chapter 34: Death Investigator
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Chapter 35: Twenty-First-Century Detectives
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Chapter 36: Rogue Daters
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Chapter 37: The Art of Shadowing
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Chapter 38: The Best Disguise is a Woman
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