Jean Stine - Legendary Women Detectives

Amelia Winslow Brewster’s ancestry went all the way back to Plymouth Rock, and her people had been hell-raising and brilliant all the way down the line. They had never conformed to the pattern of their times, yet had been unassailable through their very strength of character and knack for achievement. They had long been thorns “ in the side of a society made up of less gifted and irreverent fellow citizens.

Take Amy, for instance-though no one had succeeded despite many attempts. She had been graduated from Radcliff at sixteen with a Phi Beta Kappa key, been admitted to the Massachusetts bar before she was twenty. Two years later, she had been admitted in New York.

Possessed of a great fortune and ready to try something else, she had dabbled in finance, run “Brewster’s millions” up into eight figures. Then she had given most of it away-and acquired a well-earned reputation as a radical.

She had gambled prodigiously all over the world and so shrewdly that, unless the game was fixed, she invariably won. And any gambler who tried to fleece Amy didn’t enjoy his freedom long thereafter. A confirmed advocate of redistribution of wealth, she had done her best to live up to it-but couldn’t seem to unload as fast as she made it.

Her boldly announced theory was that two kinds of people had money-one, those who were able enough to make it again if they lost it and two, those who had acquired it by luck or inheritance. Only the latter she claimed were afraid of poverty, and they didn’t deserve the comforts of money anyway, since they lacked the ability to make it.

Many storms of criticism had broken around her, but her attackers had worn themselves to bits against her restless, unconquerable vitality. She had put the finances of at least two Central American republics on a solid basis and had her hand in scores of other pies. In “Who’s Who,” she had more foreign decorations listed after her name than any other woman.

Occasionally, when a friend had turned up in trouble, she had sailed in to clear him with the law she had mastered so early. As such, she had proved a brilliant and tireless investigator. Her honesty and ability had endeared her to the police commissioner although her utter disregard for “sacred cows’ had more than once scared him out of his somewhat duller wits.

OTHER DEERSTALKER MYSTERIES

THE NICK BANCROFT MYSTERIES

August is Murder

Death Sting

Murder by the Book

A Point of Murder

THE AMY BREWSTER MYSTERIES

A Knife in My Back – Sam Merwin Jr.

A Matter of Policy – Sam Merwin Jr.

Message to a Corpse – Sam Merwin Jr.

THE GILLIAN HAZELTINE COURTROOM MYSTERIES

The Diamond Bullet Murder Case – George F. Worts

The Hospital Homicides Murder Case – George F. Worts

The Gold Coffin Murder Case – George F. Worts

The Crime Circus Murder Case – George F. Worts

The High Seas Murder Case – George F. Worts

THE SEMI-DUAL ASTROLOGICAL MYSTERIES

The Ledger of Life Mystery – Giesy and Smith

The House of Invisible Bondage Mystery – Giesy and Smith

OTHER CLASSIC MYSTERIES

The Four Just men – Edgar Wallace

The Lone Wolf – Louis Joseph Vance

Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh

Grey Shapes – Jack Mann

The Legendary Detectives: classic tales of the world’s greatest sleuths – edited by Jean Marie Stine

The Legendary Detectives II – edited by Jean Marie Stine

The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy

The Elusive Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy