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The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective is a short story collection by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, consisting of eight detective stories. The main character, the titular Loveday Brooke, is among the earliest female-authored female detective characters in British literature. The stories were initially published in The Ludgate Monthly between February and July 1893, with the exception of "Missing!" which was first published as a part of this collection. (add information about illustrations)

List of Stories
The collection contains eight stories:
 * The Black Bag Left on a Door-Step
 * The Murder at Troyte's Hill
 * The Redhill Sisterhood
 * A Princess's Vengeance
 * Drawn Daggers
 * The Ghost of Fountain Lane
 * Missing!

Loveday Brooke
Loveday works in London as a private detective at "a well-known detective agency in Lynch Court, Fleet Street."

As a detective, Loveday demonstrates keen insight into her surroundings.

Cultural Context
With the creation of Loveday Brooke, Pirkis took advantage of the success of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series, reworking this masculine paradigm by giving it a new twist, even though the notion of a fictional female detective was not entirely new. . Following the success of Holmes, a number of short stories featuring female detectives were published, and the figure has been a staple of the detective genre ever since. .

Adaptations
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