Mr Bazalgette’s Agent - Leonard Merrick

Category: Classic, Detective, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: British Library Crime Classic Classic Mystery Rare Book

Written by Leonard Merrick
Read by Candida Gubbins
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Mr Bazalgette’s Agent
By: Leonard Merrick
Narrated by: Candida Gubbins
Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
Audiobook
Release date: 01-08-2024
Language: English
Publisher: Soundings

When Miriam Lea falls on hard times, an advertisement calling for private agents catches her eye, and within weeks she finds herself in Mr Bazalgette’s employ as a private detective, travelling on a train to Hamburg in pursuit of an audacious fraudster. What follows is a journey through some of the great cities of Europe - and eventually to South Africa - as Miss Lea attempts to find her man.

Miriam Lea is only the third ever British professional female detective to appear in a work of crime fiction. Originally published in 1888, Mr Bazalgette’s Agent presents a determined and resourceful heroine in the figure of Miss Lea, who grapples with some very modern dilemmas of female virtue and vice.

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