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Legendary Women Detectives

Her boldly announced theory was that two kinds of people had money-one, those who were able enough to make it again if they lost it and two, those who had acquired it by luck or inheritance. Only the latter she claimed were afraid of poverty, and they didn’t deserve the comforts of money anyway, since they lacked the ability to make it.

Many storms of criticism had broken around her, but her attackers had worn themselves to bits against her restless, unconquerable vitality. She had put the finances of at least two Central American republics on a solid basis and had her hand in scores of other pies. In “Who’s Who,” she had more foreign decorations listed after her name than any other woman.

Occasionally, when a friend had turned up in trouble, she had sailed in to clear him with the law she had mastered so early. As such, she had proved a brilliant and tireless investigator. Her honesty and ability had endeared her to the police commissioner although her utter disregard for “sacred cows’ had more than once scared him out of his somewhat duller wits.

OTHER DEERSTALKER MYSTERIES

THE NICK BANCROFT MYSTERIES

August is Murder

Death Sting

Murder by the Book

A Point of Murder

THE AMY BREWSTER MYSTERIES

A Knife in My Back – Sam Merwin Jr.

A Matter of Policy – Sam Merwin Jr.

Message to a Corpse – Sam Merwin Jr.

THE GILLIAN HAZELTINE COURTROOM MYSTERIES

The Diamond Bullet Murder Case – George F. Worts