Missing! | A Loveday Brooke mystery by Catherine Louisa Pirkis | A Bitesized Audiobook

"Lady Detective" Loveday Brooke is called upon to investigate the case of a young woman who has vanished without warning from her widowed father's house, just weeks before his intended re-marriage... Could either of her rival suitors, her maid, or even her future step-mother, hold the key to the mystery? The story begins at 00:01:18 Narrated/performed by Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me (and get access to exclusive content): * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Monthly support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Donate via PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HMMUWZ7URN26A * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ * Become a Bitesized Audio Classics member on YouTube, from $1 / £1 / €1 per month: https://www.youtube.com/c/BitesizedAudioClassics/join Timestamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:18 Missing! 01:11:41 Credits, thanks and further listening Catherine Louisa Pirkis (1839–1910), often credited as C. L. Pirkis, was born Catherine Louisa Lyne to a middle class family in London. She became a prominent author of detective and mystery fiction in the last quarter of the 19th century, publishing 14 novels between 1877 and 1894. She is best remembered for her last published work, 'The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective', a short series of adventures featuring the eponymous sleuth, almost certainly the first female detective in fiction, and the first to be created by a female author. An insight into contemporary attitudes to the revolutionary nature of the character may be seen in an 1893 review in the Glasgow Herald, which, after praising Loveday's insights and detective skill, added "We are just afraid Miss Brooke is too clever in catching criminals e