Catherine Louisa Pirkis

The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective Catherine Louisa Pirkis

Book Excerpt: ...her head, my name is not Jeremiah Bates.""You mean the French maid?""Why, yes, of course. I take it there's little doubt but what she performed the double duty of unlocking the safe and the window too. You see I look at it this way, Miss Brooke: all girls have lovers, I say to myself, but a pretty girl like that French maid, is bound to have double the number of lovers than the plain ones. Now, of course, the greater the number of lovers, the greater the chance there is of a criminal being found among them. That's plain as a pikestaff, isn't it?""Just as plain."Bates felt encouraged to proceed...