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The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crimeby Susannah Stapleton ( Read more... )

It was that subtitle that encouraged me to read this book. But it isn’t a catchpenny gimmick. The author is a psychologist who was introduced to Conan Doyle’s stories as a child, and it was Holmes’ skills that inspired her to write this work.

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