The Lady Detective
Meet Maud West, a real life lady detective from the golden age of detective fiction.
Meet Maud West, a real life lady detective from the golden age of detective fiction who lived a very colourful life — as well as sleuthing, she liked to dress up as Charlie Chaplin and once threatened to shoot a ghost. But who was she, really?
This archive episode of Shedunnit was first published on 10th July 2019.
Books mentioned in order of appearance:
— The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective by Susannah Stapleton
— British Women in the Twentieth Century by Elsie M. Lang
— Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy
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