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 - 4h 17m.
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 - 4h 17m. Author - Caitlin Davies. Narrator - Annie Aldington. Published Date - Monday, 01 January 2024. Copyright - © 2023 Caitlin Davies ©.
Language:
English
Prologue: Case No. 480
Duration:06:00:12
Chapter 1: A Consulting Detective
Duration:08:57:34
Chapter 2: How to Become a Private Eye
Duration:11:13:55
Chapter 3: Inspector Field and the Peephole Servants
Duration:16:42:37
Chapter 4: A Special Detector
Duration:15:37:43
Chapter 5: Clubnose
Duration:08:27:32
Chapter 6: Secret Watchings
Duration:15:24:29
Chapter 7: A Profession for Charlatans
Duration:11:14:42
Chapter 8: Assessment Day
Duration:12:24:04
Chapter 9: Antonia Moser: Detective Expert
Duration:23:24:21
Chapter 10: Adventures of a Woman Detective
Duration:20:40:06
Chapter 11: Kate Easton: 'I Can Shoot Straight'
Duration:20:55:45
Chapter 12: A Dominant Face for a Woman
Duration:13:12:32
Chapter 13: Lady Detective and Wizard
Duration:14:17:56
Chapter 14: The Lady Copper
Duration:14:04:54
Chapter 15: The Women 'Tecs of Baker Street
Duration:11:06:04
Chapter 16: An Underground Job
Duration:06:42:02
Chapter 17: A Clean Profession
Duration:10:54:08
Chapter 18: May Storey: A Great Career for a Girl
Duration:16:02:13
Chapter 19: A Modest Woman
Duration:13:22:54
Chapter 20: Annette Kerner: The Mayfair Detective Agency
Duration:17:56:47
Chapter 21: Truth and Lies
Duration:14:09:32
Chapter 22: The Case of the Disappearing Whisky
Duration:15:03:02
Chapter 23: A Woman Private Dick
Duration:13:16:32
Chapter 24: Do You Want to Know a Secret?
Duration:23:48:19
Chapter 25: Zena Scott-Archer: Scott's Detective Bureau
Duration:14:02:31
Chapter 26: Merseyside's Mrs Sherlock Holmes
Duration:16:06:19
Chapter 27: Duly Served
Duration:10:31:15
Chapter 28: A Dangerous Profession
Duration:12:07:07
Chapter 29: Anne Summer: 'I Couldn't Do That!'
Duration:17:48:01
Chapter 30: A Toothsome Sleuth
Duration:21:57:22
Chapter 31: Lady Gumshoe
Duration:10:50:18
Chapter 32: 'She-lock Holmes'
Duration:16:04:16
Chapter 33: Private Lives
Duration:18:14:57
Chapter 34: Death Investigator
Duration:15:40:44
Chapter 35: Twenty-First-Century Detectives
Duration:08:11:51
Chapter 36: Rogue Daters
Duration:17:33:41
Chapter 37: The Art of Shadowing
Duration:27:07:04
Chapter 38: The Best Disguise is a Woman
Duration:19:01:58