Secret Sleuths
Dr Nell DarbyInvestigating the history of private detectives, with Dr Nell Darby
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The suffragist detectives
A brief post today, looking at evidence of female private detectives being involved in the women’s suffrage movement.
Women who worked as private detectives in the latter 19th century and earlier 20th were already breaking gender norms. Th...
Mr Murray and his three partners
Some private detectives formed partnerships with others - perhaps they had both worked together previously as police detectives, or were friends or neighbours. However, when one of the partnership died or decided to retire, new relationship...
The drunk and disorderly detective
Today, we’re in Leeds, where Hugh Hawthorne briefly ran a detective agency. If his press adverts are anything to go by, he only operated from March to July 1893, but other press cuttings indicate why he might not have lasted long in the ind...
Found in bed with a baker
I’ve previously written about the Liverpool private detective Thomas Lucan - see my posts here and here. Lucan established his detective office in central Liverpool in the 1870s, and today, I’m looking at a case he dealt with fairly early o...
The one that got away
Although I can often find details of individual private detectives - their parents, their spouse, their children - it’s harder to find out the details of what they actually did in their professional lives. Unless they had the money to adver...
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