Miss Loveday Brooke was one of the of the very first fictional female detectives -- an unheard-of profession for a woman in Victorian London. This volume collects seven of her classic adventures: "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 Foutain Lane " and "Missing!" These stories all originally appeared in Ludgate Magazine in the 1890s.