Introduction / by Michael Sims
Suggestions for further reading
The mysterious countess (1864) / W. S. Hayward
The unknown weapon (1864) / Andrew Forrester
Drawn daggers (1893) / C. L. Pirkis
The long arm (1895) / Mary E. Wilkins
That affair next door (1897) / Anna Katharine Green
The man with the wild eyes (1897) / George R. Sims
The adventure of the cantankerous old lady (1899) / Grant Allen
How he cut his stick (1900) / M. Mcdonnell Bodkin
The man who cut off my hair (1912) / Richard Marsh
The man with nine lives (1914) / Hugh C. Weir
The second bullet (1915) / Anna Katharine Green.
The Penguin book of Victorian women in crime : forgotten cops and private eyes from the time of Sherlock Holmes. ISBN 9780143106210. Published by Penguin in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.