Agatha Christie was not yet born when James Redding Ware I had already published this novel with the essential role of a woman at the helm of an investigation. The year was 1864. So no matter how original and disruptive a work may be, a precedent always appears. If even the discovery of America can be associated with Viking navigators little given to the chronicles of their voyages...
The point is that under the pseudonym of Andrew Forrester we enjoy a series of stories about Miss Gladden and her first-order deductive adventures in search of the resolution of crimes and crimes of the first order.
Throughout the seven narratives of this volume, we will meet the fascinating and determined Miss Gladden, a strong, mysterious woman (her personal circumstances and even her real name are never revealed) and with skills for logic and deduction that they anticipate those of Sherlock Holmes himself, with whom he also shares disdain for the conventional police and their methods. Whether solving murder, robbery, or fraud cases, he diligently searches for clues, sneaks into crime scenes, and tracks down suspects while covering his own tracks and identifying himself as a detective alone. when the occasion really calls for it.
Andrew Forrester opened a necessary and fruitful path by giving prominence in his work to the first professional detective in the history of literature. And just as crime and deception have flourished ever since, neither have the intuition and ingenuity that these pages so delightfully offer us.
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