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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…
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Mr. Bazalgette’s Agent was published in 1888 and is said to be the first British novel to feature a professional female detective.
Twenty-eight-year-old Miriam Lea, a former actress, is a ‘lady of brains’ who applies for a job at Alfred Bazalgette’s Inquiry Office in London.
Miriam is an ‘adventuress’ who longs to be successful in her new career, but when she sets off to the diamond mines of South Africa to find a clerk accused of fraud, she’s acutely aware this isn’t a job for a lady.
Mr. Bazalgette’s Agent is a fast-paced read. Miriam is independent and resourceful, and…
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