![]() ![]() As one of the earliest professional female detectives in English literary history, Brooke's career was marked by conflicts with territorial male officers and the ever-present pressure to keep her detective work “inside the house.” Emerging at a historical moment when understandings of women, criminality, and law enforcement were rapidly changing in Britain, Pirkis's stories offer an interpretation of these intersecting cultural shifts that is surprisingly different from her contemporaries. This is a typical beginning for one of Brooke's adventures, which were published in the London magazineLudgate Monthlyin 18. They only sent to me under protest, as it were, because they wanted your sharp wits at work inside the house” (528). Those Newcastle men are keen-witted, shrewd fellows, and very jealous of outside interference. ![]() (CATHERINE LOUISA)PIRKIS'S“The Murder at Troyte's Hill,” second in her series of stories about Detective Loveday Brooke, begins with Brooke's boss debriefing her on a case: “Griffiths, of the Newcastle Constabulary, has the case in hand…. ![]()
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