A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman.
He has written for many periodicals, from the Washington Post to New Statesman ..
For Penguin Classics he also edited The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel, Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief , and The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime .
He is also the author of Apollo\'s Fire: A Journey Through the Extraordinary Wonders of an Ordinary Day , which NPR chose as one of the best science books of 2007
Adam\'s Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form , which was a New York Times Notable Book and a Library Journal Best Science Book; and Darwin\'s Orchestra: An Almanac of Nature in History and the Arts .
About the Author: Michael Sims is the author of In the Womb: Animals (adapted from two National Geographic Channel documentaries).
In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime , Michael Sims has brought together all of the era\'s great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.
And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder.
She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn\'t like to be told what to do.
A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman
