The Death Of Dora Black. A Petticoat Police Mystery

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2024
Edition: First Edition

Description: 309 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Summer, Adelaide, 1917. The impeccably dressed Miss Kate Cocks might look more like a schoolmistress than a policewoman, but dont let that fool you. Shes a household name, wrangling wayward husbands into repentance, seeing through deceptive clairvoyants, and rescuing young women (whether they like it or not) with the help of a five-foot cane and her sassy junior constable, Ethel Bromley.When shop assistant Dora Black is found dead on a city beach, Miss Cocks and Ethel are ordered to stay out of the investigation and leave it to the men. But when Doras workmate goes missing soon after, the women suspect something sinister, and determine to take matters into their own hands. After all, who knows Adelaide better than the indomitable Miss Cocks*In 1915, Fanny Kate Boadicea Cocks became the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary as men. This novel is a rich exploration of that little-known chapter of Australian history.*

ISBN: 9780733652066