Author event: Michael Sims | The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime February 28, 2011

Michael Sims, author of Apollo's Fire and Adam's Navel, is also the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime and The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Sims brings together the greatest crime-fighting females of the Victorian era. His array of game-changing female detectives includes Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. And they’re all out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder.