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Sources for overseas titles include:
Australia – Trove (National Library of Australia) www.trove.nla.gov.au
France – Gallica (Bibliothèque nationale de France) www.gallica.bnf.fr
Netherlands and Dutch East Indies – Delpher (Koninklijk Bibliotheek) www.delpher.nl
New Zealand – Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand) www.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
Singapore – NewspapersSG (Singapore National Library Board) www.eresources.nlb.gov.sg
Ukraine – The European Library (Conference of European National Librarians) www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
United States of America: www.newspapers.com and Chronicling America (Library of Congress) www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov
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Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre (Metropolitan Borough of Holborn records)
Cumbria Archives Service (Charles Richards detective reports)
History of Advertising Trust (Publicity Club of London archive)
The Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois (Dorothy L. Sayers papers)
The National Archives (Metropolitan Police, Home Office and security service files; military records; divorce records)
The Women’s Library, London School of Economics (WSPU and Efficiency Club records)
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Notes
Chapter One: The Documents in the Case
1 Ideas, 13 Mar 1914, p. 6
2 Time, 19 Nov 1934, p. 22
3 Perth Daily News, 25 Jun 1926, p. 5 (Original in Sphere, 24 Apr 1926, p. 112)
4 Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung (Ukraine), 6 Jul 1913, p. 7; New Zealand Herald, 28 Dec 1927, p. 1
5 Camperdown Chronicle (Australia), 17 Jul 1915, p. 6
6 Adelaide Saturday Journal (Australia), 10 Jul 1926, p. 4
7 Ibid.
8 Ibid.
9 Adelaide Express and Telegraph (Australia), 18 Apr 1914, p. 7
10 Ibid.; the Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 5 Sep 1925, p. 6
11 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3
12 Pearson’s Weekly, 26 Apr 1913, p. 1107
13 Adelaide Express and Telegraph (Australia), 18 Apr 1914, p. 7
14 Sunday Dispatch, 6 Dec 1931, p. 4
Chapter Two: The Body in the Library
1 Weekly Irish Times, 1 Feb 1930, p. 10
2 Annette Kerner, Woman Detective, T. Werner Laurie, 1954; Annette Kerner, Further Adventures of a Woman Detective, T. Werner Laurie, 1955. For an appraisal of Kerner’s career, see Louise A. Jackson, ‘The Unusual Case of “Mrs Sherlock”: Memoir, Identity and the “Real” Woman Private Detective in Twentieth Century Britain’, Gender & History, Vol. 15, No. 1 (April 2003), pp. 108–34, which also mentions Maud West.
3 Daily Express, 12 Mar 1913, p. 4
4 The Times, 5 Nov 1904, p. 6; Proceedings of the Central Criminal Court, 14 Nov 1904, pp. 33–7
5 Daily Express, 12 Mar 1913, p. 4
6 Britannia and Eve, Dec 1931, p. 126
7 Daily Mail, 14 Jul 1919, p. 5; 15 Jul 1919, p. 3
8 Daily Mail, 22 Jul 1919, p. 4
9 Daily Mail, 15 Jul 1919, p. 3
10 Daily Mail, 21 Jan 1914, p. 3
11 The Times, 9 Nov 1905, p. 4
12 Hearth and Home, 11 Jan 1900, p. 414; Spectator, 18 Feb 1893, p. 13
13 Gail Savage, ‘Erotic Stories and Public Decency: Newspaper Reporting of Divorce Proceedings in England’, Historical Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2 (June 1998), pp. 513–14
14 Sporting Times, 1 Dec 1894, p. 4
15 Nelson Evening Mail (New Zealand), 18 May 1904, p. 3
16 The Times, 4 Apr 1855, p. 9
17 Hearth and Home, 13 Oct 1892, p. 730
18 Quoted in North Wales Times, 4 Apr 1896, p. 6
19 The Times, 22 Jul 1890, p. 3; Divorce Court File, National Archives, ref: J77/447/3639
20 Manchester Guardian, 28 Aug 1908, p. 8; London Gazette, issue 29828, 17 Nov 1916
21 According to the Clerk in 1908, office workers were often paid as little as 25 to 30 shillings a week. Clerk, Feb 1908, p. 6
22 The Times, 27 Jan 1912, p. 3; 30 Jan 1912, p. 7
23 Lloyd’s Weekly News, 19 May 1907, p. 6
24 Irish Times, 9 Jan 1913, p. 9; Western Times, 10 Jan 1913, p. 12
25 For details of the census boycott, see Jill Liddington and Elizabeth Crawford, Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the Census, Manchester University Press, 2014. Kate Easton’s participation in the boycott was unusual, given that she appeared to have no official link to any of the suffrage organizations involved.
26 M. A .P. (Mainly About People), 5 Feb 1910, p. 171
27 Lloyd’s Weekly News, 19 May 1907, p. 6
28 Sunday Post, 14 Mar 1926, p. 11
29 Adelaide Saturday Journal (Australia), 10 Jul 1926, p. 4
30 Perth Daily News (Australia), 25 Jun 1926, p. 5
31 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
32 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, p. 6
33 Pearson’s Weekly, 29 Mar 1913, p. 1011
34 Weekly Irish Times, 1 Feb 1930, p. 10
35 Pearson’s Weekly, 29 Mar 1913, p. 1011
Chapter Three: Crooked House
1 Answers, 9 Aug 1919, p. 209
2 Sunday Times, 4 Jul 1909, p. 1
3 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3; Daily Mail Atlantic Edition, 17 Jun 1931, p. 6
4 See map at bombsight.org
5 Building News, 17 Mar 1899, p. 371
6 Manchester Courier, 18 Nov 1909, p. 3
7 Review of Reviews for Australasia, Jul 1909, p. 428; The Times, 6 Oct 1908, p. 1; 22 Dec 1909, p. 2; Sheffield Daily Independent, 18 Oct 1909, p. 8; Western Times, 22 May 1908, p. 3
8 Financial Times, 18 Sep 1909, p. 4
9 British Medical Journal, 6 Jun 1908, pp. 1375–6.
10 Teesdale Mercury, 24 Jul 1907, p. 3; Financial Times, 12 Jun 19
09, p. 8; Lancet, 29 Jan 1910, p. 308
11 Dundee Evening Telegraph, 2 Jun 1909, p. 5; 15 Jun 1909, p. 4
12 Walter Wood, Survivors’ Tales of Famous Crimes, Cassell, 1916, pp. 270–1
13 Sydney World’s News (Australia), 20 Aug 1910, p. 13
14 Pearson’s Weekly, 3 May 1913, p. 1137
15 Pearson’s Weekly, 29 Mar 1913, p. 1011
16 Illustrated Police News, 13 Mar 1909, p. 2
17 Pearson’s Weekly, 26 Apr 1913, p. 1107
18 Daily Telegraph, 22 Nov 1911, p. 6
19 Daily Mail, 22 Nov 1911, p. 8
20 Croydon Guardian and Surrey County Gazette, 18 Jun 1910, p. 2; Yorkshire Post, 18 May 1908, p. 7; Pall Mall Gazette, 27 Aug 1913, p. 8
21 Nottingham Evening Post, 26 Mar 1903, p. 3
22 Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper, 7 Jan 1872, p. 7
23 London Evening Standard, 19 Aug 1871, p. 7; 15 Apr 1896, p. 4; Morning Post, 26 Feb 1873, p. 7; Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 1907, p. 4
24 London Evening Standard, 20 Aug 1898, p. 2
25 Pall Mall Gazette, 22 Jul 1913, p. 10
26 Irish Times, 3 Dec 1952, p. 10
27 Huddersfield Chronicle, 15 May 1894, p. 4
28 London Gazette, issue 33991, 31 Oct 1933
29 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, p. 434; Sunday Chronicle, 14 Feb 1926, p. 3
Chapter Four: They Do It With Mirrors
1 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, p. 431
2 Détective (France), 22 Nov 1928, p. 7
3 Pittsburgh Press, 27 Jul 1913, p. 43; San Francisco Call, 3 Aug 1913, p. 17
4 Pearson’s Weekly, 29 Mar 1913, p. 1011
5 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1913, p. 1058
6 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
7 Daily Mirror, 3 Sep 1913, p. 5
8 Gloucestershire Echo, 27 Sep 1913, p. 5
9 Luton Times and Advertiser, 29 Aug 1913, p. 6
10 Taunton Courier, 23 Jul 1913, p. 1; 4 Aug 1913, p. 1; Dundee Evening Telegraph, 30 Sep 1913, p. 1
11 Globe, 6 Sep 1913, p. 4; Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 25 Aug 1913, p. 7; Aberdeen Press and Journal, 23 Aug 1913, p. 2; Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 21 Aug 1913, p. 7; Lincolnshire Standard and Boston Guardian, 6 Sep 1913, p. 2; Sheffield Evening Telegraph, 23 Aug 1913, p. 4
12 Sporting Times, 30 Aug 1913, p. 1
13 The Times, 8 Oct 1913, p. 3; Dundee Evening Telegraph, 18 Jul 1913, p. 2; Yorkshire Evening Post, 14 Jul 1913, p. 6; Dundee Courier, 15 Jul 1913, p. 5; Yorkshire Post, 17 Jul 1913, p. 6
14 San Francisco Examiner, 16 May 1926, ‘American Weekly’ section, p. 2
15 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
16 Pictorial Review, Apr 1926, p. 20
17 Sir John Gielgud, Backward Glances, Hodder & Stoughton, 1989, p. 50. For an earlier description of Clarkson’s, see ‘Wiggery, London: A look around Mr Clarkson’s New Home in Wardour Street’, Music Hall and Theatre Review, 26 May 1905, p. 330
18 Daily Mirror, 3 Sep 1913, p. 5
19 Pearson’s Magazine, 1 Nov 1926, p. 431
20 Weekly Dispatch, 17 Oct 1909, p. 5
21 Martyn Downer, The Sultan of Zanzibar: the bizarre world and spectacular hoaxes of Horace de Vere Cole, Black Spring, 2010, p. 111
22 Adrian Stephen, The ‘Dreadnought’ Hoax, Hogarth Press, 1936
23 San Francisco Examiner, 16 May 1926, ‘American Weekly’ section, p. 2
24 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
25 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, pp. 6 and 8
26 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3
27 Britannia and Eve, Dec 1931, p. 126
28 Birmingham Gazette, 16 Jun 1937, p. 9
29 Manchester Guardian, 21 Aug 1924, p. 6
30 Ideas, 13 Mar 1914, p. 6
31 Ibid.
32 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, pp. 6 and 8
33 John Goodwin, Crook Pie, Alston Rivers, 1927, p. 195
34 Ibid., pp. 196–7
35 Ibid. See also John Goodwin, Sidelights on Criminal Matters, Hutchinson, 1923, pp. 193–4
36 Ideas, 13 Mar 1914, p. 6
37 Sunday Dispatch, 15 Nov 1931, p. 4
38 Ibid.
39 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, pp. 6 and 8
40 Weekly Irish Times, 1 Feb 1930, p. 10
41 Pearson’s Magazine, Nov 1926, pp. 430–4
42 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3
43 Dundee Courier, 7 Oct 1909, p. 5
44 The Times, 28 Oct 1916, p. 11; Daily Mirror, 28 Oct 1916, p. 10
45 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1913, p. 1058
Chapter Five: The Shadow in the House
1 Sportsman’s Gazette, 11 Jun 1915, p. 360
2 Portsmouth Evening News, 23 May 1913, p. 5
3 Women’s Social & Political Union Seventh Annual Report (1913), p. 14
4 Women’s Social & Political Union Eighth Annual Report (1914), p. 22
5 Portsmouth Evening News, 23 May 1913, p. 5
6 Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung (Ukraine), 6 Jul 1913, p. 7
7 The Times, 9 Jul 1913, p. 8
8 Sunday Dispatch, 13 Dec 1931, p. 8; Sunday Dispatch, 6 Dec 1931, p. 4
9 San Francisco Examiner, 16 May 1926, ‘American Weekly’ section, p. 2
10 Pearson’s Weekly, 14 Mar 1912, p. 915
11 Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung (Ukraine), 6 Jul 1913, p. 7
12 Maitland Daily (Australia), 15 Jan 1907, p. 2
13 Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung (Ukraine), 6 Jul 1913, p. 7
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid.
16 Portsmouth Evening News, 28 Mar 1911, p. 6. See also ‘The Immorality of Women at Bridge’, Grand Magazine, Feb 1905, p. 44
17 Belfast Evening Telegraph, 17 Jun 1908, p. 4
18 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1913, p. 1058
19 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1913, p. 1058
20 The Times, 10 Jun 1891, p. 9
21 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1913, p. 1058
22 Daily Telegraph, 19 Sep 1906, p. 5
23 Daily Express, 22 Jun 1912, p. 1
24 The Times, 21 Jan 1911, p. 10
25 The Times, 25 Jan 1911, p. 8
26 The Times, 30 Jan 1911, p. 10
27 The Times, 11 Feb 1911, p. 8
28 The Times, 31 Jan 1911, p. 12
29 Belfast Evening Telegraph, 23 Sep 1907, p. 5
30 Washington Post, 16 Jun 1914, p. 3; New York Tribune, 16 Jun 1914, p. 3
31 Washington Post, 16 Jun 1914, p. 3
32 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 Jun 1914, p. 3
33 The Times, 5 Jun 1914, p. 8
34 Yorkshire Evening Post, 17 Jun 1914, p. 4
35 Belfast Evening Telegraph, 23 Sep 1907, p. 5
36 The Times, 7 Jan 1913, p. 2; 12 Mar 1913, p. 4; 14 Mar 1913, p. 2
37 Daily Mirror, 14 Mar 1913, p. 4
38 Daily Telegraph, 15 Nov 1905, p. 6
39 Bystander, 7 Mar 1906, p. 464
40 Daily Telegraph, 21 Oct 1909, p. 20
41 Vanity Fair, 7 Jul 1909, p. 13
42 Times of India, 11 Apr 1938, p. 22
Chapter Six: To Love and Be Wise
1 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3
2 Birmingham Gazette, 16 Jun 1937, p. 9
3 San Francisco Examiner, 16 May 1926, ‘American Weekly’ section, p. 2
4 Pearson’s Weekly, 4 May 1911, p. 759
5 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3
6 Pearson’s Weekly, 19 Apr 1913, p. 1083
7 Pearson’s Weekly, 13 Aug 1921, p. 171
8 Ibid.
9 Times of India, 11 Apr 1938, p. 22
10 Weekly Irish Times, 22 Mar 1930, p. 3
11 Weekly Irish Times, 1 Feb 1930, p. 10
12 Hobart Mercury (Australia), 21 Dec 1938, pp. 6 and 8
13 Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 27 Jul 1913, illustrated magazine section, p. 3
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nbsp; 14 Britannia and Eve, Dec 1931, p. 126
15 Ideas, 13 Mar 1914, p. 6
16 Weekly Irish Times, 22 Mar 1930, p. 3
17 Pearson’s Weekly, 12 Apr 1919, p. 575
18 Pearson’s Weekly, 5 Apr 1913, p. 1045
19 Belfast Evening Telegraph, 23 Sep 1907, p. 5
20 Pearson’s Weekly, 4 May 1911, p. 759
21 John Goodwin, Crook Pie, Alston Rivers, 1927, p. 189
22 John Goodwin, Sidelights on Criminal Matters, Hutchinson, 1923, pp. 190–1
23 Pearson’s Weekly, 5 Apr 1913, p. 1045
24 Daily Express, 28 Jan 1914, p. 4
25 Daily Herald, 29 Nov 1919, p. 2
26 The Times, 29 Nov 1919, p. 4
27 Nottingham Daily Express, 30 Oct 1912, p. 6; The Times, 30 Oct 1912, p. 4
28 Sunday Dispatch, 22 Nov 1931, p. 4
Chapter Seven: A Kiss Before Dying
1 Pearson’s Weekly, 29 Mar 1913, p. 1011
2 Mataura Ensign (New Zealand), 10 Jul 1914, p. 3
3 Daily Express, 1 May 1914, p. 4
4 Jerry White, Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War, Vintage (reprint ed.), 2015, p. 181
5 Joan Lock, The British Policewoman: Her Story, Robert Hale, 1979, p. 61
6 Daily Express, 4 Mar 1916, p. 1
7 London Evening News, 30 Apr 1918, p. 4
8 The Times, 20 May 1915, p. 5
9 Sunday Dispatch, 22 Nov 1931, p. 4
10 Sunday Dispatch, 22 Nov 1931, p. 4
11 Aileen Rivers, A Brief History of the Private Detective, Association of British Investigators, 2009, p. 44
12 Thomas Davy Luke, Spas and Health Resorts of the British Isles, A & C Black, 1919, pp. 185–6
13 Weekly Irish Times, 22 Feb 1930, p. 3
14 National Archives KV1, KV2, HO45/10727/254753 and WO141
15 William Le Queux, German Spies in England: An Exposure (sixth edition), Stanley Paul & Co., 1915, p. 8
16 Sidney Theodore Felstead, German Spies at Bay, Hutchinson & Co., 1920, pp. 42–3
17 Post Sunday Special, 5 Aug 1917, p. 7; 12 Aug 1917, p. 7
18 65 Cong. Rec. 1515 (1918), Statement of Senator Owen
19 Divorces in England and Wales: Number of couples divorcing, by party petitioning/decree granted, 1858–2014, Office of National Statistics
20 Summary of Recorded Crime Statistics for England and Wales 1898–2001/02, Home Office
21 Army and Navy Gazette, 11 Aug 1917, p. 13
22 Sporting Times, 19 Sep 1914, p. 9
23 Globe, 14 Jan 1915, p. 8
24 A. M. Glazer and Patience Thomson (eds), Crystal Clear: The Autobiographies of Sir Lawrence and Lady Bragg, Oxford University Press, 2015, p. 7
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