C. L. Pirkis (1839–1910), 1893: First Publication of the ‘Loveday Brooke’ Stories in the Ludgate Monthly

Catherine Louisa PirkisPirkis, C.L. is best known for The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (1894), a collection of seven short stories which features one of fiction’s earliest female-authored women detectives, PirkisPirkis, C.L. also wrote thirteen novels and a range of short stories.