Dorcas Dene, detective : Her adventures by George R. Sims
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"Dorcas Dene, detective" by George R. Sims is a collection of detective stories written in the late 19th century. It follows Dorcas Dene, an actress-turned private investigator who solves delicate cases with tact, disguise, and sharp intuition, aided by her blind artist husband Paul, her forthright mother, and a watchful bulldog. The tales emphasize discretion, social nuance, and quiet justice over public scandal. The opening of the book introduces Dorcas’s origins: first
seen as a capable actress, she later turns to detection after her husband’s blindness and guidance from a retired police superintendent, forming a “council of four” at home. In the Helsham case, Dorcas traces a vanished young peer to the theatre, infers a suicide plan from a lover’s letter, and uncovers a buried family secret about inheritance; she arranges a staged drowning to end the scandal quietly and set the rightful succession in motion. Next, summoned as a “nurse” to Orley Park, she investigates Maud Hargreaves’s supposed faint by the lake, reads footprints and a lost hat, and links them to Victor Dubois, a secret husband from her Norwood years; the man, evidently unstable, dies in the lake, and the matter is hushed with an inquest verdict of temporary insanity. The section closes with a new setup at Richmond, where Dorcas—disguised as an American tourist—surveils a trio over coffee, ushering in the next mystery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Sims, George R. (George Robert), 1847-1922 |
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| Title | Dorcas Dene, detective : Her adventures |
| Original Publication | London: F.V. White & Co., 1897. |
| Contents | The Council of Four -- The Helsham mystery -- The man with the wild eyes -- The secret of the lake -- The diamond lizard -- The prick of a pin -- The mysterious millionaire -- The empty house -- The clothes in the cupboard -- The Haverstock Hill murder -- The brown bear lamp. |
| Credits | Payton D. Cooke |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Criminal investigation -- Fiction |
| Subject | England -- Fiction |
| Subject | Detective and mystery stories, English |
| Subject | Women private investigators -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77243 |
| Release Date | Nov 16, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 282 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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