The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective

So I wanted to read about female private detectives in the early 1900's, surely that must have been a thing because there were plenty of fictive lady detectives. I went to Trove and quickly found ads for Maud Wests services and some of her daring deeds, amazing, prefect. Some one must have written about this woman? Googled Maud West and found this book.

The book starts with the author going to Trove and finds the same stuff I did, make me feel so good about myself, I'm a proper sleuth and I don't need to dig further as someone much better than me had already done it. So pleased that Susannah Stapleton got there before me so I had this book to read!

There's three storylines in the book, we get to learn about Maud and the world she lived in, how the author did her digging. And then we have Mauds own stories of her adventures.