The Lady Detective

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

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? Find links to all the books mentioned and more details about my guests at shedunnitshow.com/theladydetective. Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership. Get a free audiobook via Audible at shedunnitshow.com/audible Guest: —Susannah Stapleton, author of The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective 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 To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/theladydetectivetranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You escaped the war?
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0:26.2	Currently 699 per month, new and eligible former subscribers only, 18 plus, Tees and sees apply. If you're listening to this podcast, I feel like I can reasonably make the assumption that at some point in your life you have read a detective novel.
0:44.4	I'll go further. You've probably read at least one who done it
0:48.3	where the sleuth you followed so avidly was a woman. Whether that was Agtha Christie's Jane Marple or Ariadne Oliver, Dorothy Say as Harriet
0:56.7	Fane, Gladys Mitchell's Mrs Bradley, or perhaps a more modern creation set roughly when these
1:02.2	Queens of Crime were working, like Elizabeth Peter's Amelia Peabody or Kerry Greenwood's Friny Fisher. But while you have enjoyed the fictional adventures of these sloothing heroines, have you ever stopped to wonder who their real life counterparts were?
1:24.2	Were there any actual lady detectives dashing about solving crimes when these authors were
1:28.6	working?
1:29.9	Or was it all pure invention?
1:32.3	Because society at the time would never have stood for the idea of a woman doing anything
1:36.3	as grubby as catching a murderer or foiling her theft.
1:40.8	Well, wonder no longer.
1:43.0	Today we're going to meet the Lady Detective.
1:47.0	Welcome to She Doneit.
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