Scotland Yard

Her body was discovered on 5 December 1968 after Rhys Davies and Raymond Marriott got police to break into her flat. She had been dead for at least twenty-four hours. The Scotland Yard Drug Squad...

This book, in which the effects of British colonial rule in India reverberate within English provincial life, is counted amongst the first detective novels, and proved as popular as The Woman in White. In...

Thirteen paintings in an exhibition by DHL at the Warren Gallery in London were declared obscene and seized by Scotland Yard .

Samuels was then editor of The Commonweal. Bevington's claim that he was a double agent, actually working for the police, and that his attack was engineered by Scotland Yard to damage the anarchist cause...

The narrator of Chicane, aged twenty-two and called by most characters the Kid, is desperately looking for some means to support herself through visiting countless agencies for the employment of gentlewomen. The glamorous...

On 15 February Bourdin had died, apparently when his home-made bomb went off before he could reach the Observatory. H. B. Samuels , who was known for favouring violent action more than Nicoll, had taken...

The Dictionary of Literary Biography calls Jemima Shore a new kind of woman detective. Her independence, intelligence, and literary sensibility are nothing new, but her rejection of marriage and her cheerful sexual promiscuity are...

Again contemporary documents in facsimile accompany explanatory broadsheets (on the suffrage campaign itself and contextual subjects beginning with The Prison House of Home) and an illustrated timeline, Women in Revolt, running from 1743...

The story follows a well-known squire named Sir Peter de Pipelpenne who is condemned by a hunting accident to spend the rest of his life in bed.

The narrator of these stories is the ever faithful Mary Granard, Lady Molly's sidekick and admirer and her colleague at Scotland Yard 's Female Division. Mary Granard has been sworn to secrecy about the personal...

Through a series of coincidental events, both Richard and David (who has run away from Loraine and made his way to Marseilles) end up kidnapped by Kramer. Charity attempts to secure help from another guest...