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  • BRITAIN'S GREATEST PRIVATE DETECTIVE
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    BRITAIN'S GREATEST PRIVATE DETECTIVE
    NELL DARBY
    Explores Henry Slater’s rise and fall as Britain’s leading private detective, revealing the golden age of detection and its dark side. From his offices at Basinghall Street in the City of London, Henry Slater presided over Britain's best-known private detective agency, king of all he surveyed. In the late Victorian era, and into the twentieth century, his name was synonymous wi...

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  • FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE COTSWOLDS
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    FOUL DEEDS & SUSPICIOUS DEATHS IN THE COTSWOLDS
    NELL DARBY
    Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in the Cotswolds explores the dark history of this famously picturesque region of England. Behind the picture-postcard idyll, everyday life in this largely rural area saw murders, beatings, jealousy and alcohol-fuelled crimes. Nell Darby's book examines a selection of these shocking events in vivid detail. Drawing on contemporary sources, newspa...

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  • LIFE ON THE VICTORIAN STAGE
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    LIFE ON THE VICTORIAN STAGE
    NELL DARBY
    The expansion of the press in Victorian Britain meant more pages to be filled, and more stories to be found. Life on the Victorian Stage: Theatrical Gossip looks at how the everyday lives of Victorian performers and managers were used for such a purpose, with the British newspapers covering the good, the bad and the ugly side of life on the stage during the nineteenth century. ...

    $179.00

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  • A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S LIVES IN OXFORD
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    A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S LIVES IN OXFORD
    NELL DARBY
    Underneath the dreaming spires of Oxford’s world-famous university, generations of women have lived their lives, fighting for the right to study there, and for a role within the city’s educational, political and social spheres. Although a few of these women’s names have been recorded for posterity, they have been largely because of their association with worthy or famous men; i...

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  • SISTER SLEUTHS
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    SISTER SLEUTHS
    NELL DARBY
    “A unique and inherently fascinating history that brings a particular aspect of the role of women in law enforcement up out of obscurity.” —Midwest Book Review The 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery—and men soon realized that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriendin...

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