The Search for the Girl
By Cottrel Hoe and John Betancourt
()
About this ebook
Fallout continues from Jennie's impersonation of the Princess von Steinheimer at the Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball—with a detective now on the trail of the impersonator! Fourth in the Jennie Baxter series.
Includes an introduction by John Betancourt.
Read more from Cottrel Hoe
The Adventures of Jennie Baxter, Reporter The Duchess of Chiselhurst’s Ball Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to The Search for the Girl
Titles in the series (5)
The Daily Bugle Misses "A Hit" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Diamonds of the Princess Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Explosion of the Treasury Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Search for the Girl Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Modern Wizard in His Magic Attic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
The Daily Bugle Misses "A Hit" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Modern Chronicle — Volume 05 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsContact: And Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFlower o' the Clove: "You said it was a true love-story" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Queen of Spades, The Captain's Daughter and Other Stories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNobody But You Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fanny Lambert: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCode Name Nanette Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghost Pains Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMiss Bracegirdle & Other Stories: "It was curious that the young man was almost precisely as he had pictured him" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMy Mortal Enemy: With an Excerpt by H. L. Mencken Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe House of Mirth Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Box Office Murders Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Into the Bargain: A Clandestine Magic Fairy Tale: Clandestine Magic, #0.1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Sappho of Green Springs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Aspern Papers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Aspern Papers by Henry James (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSelected Novels Of Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, Ethan Frome, The House of Mirth, and Madame de Treymes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Adventures of Felicity Holmes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNIGHT AND DAY (The Original 1919 Edition) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Helpers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Room of One's Own: With an Introductory Essay "Professions for Women" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Queen Of Spades Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Avenger Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Invisible Prince: "You mustn't hope to disconcert me with questions like that" Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSeduce Me with Sapphires Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil in Velvet Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Rose in the Wheel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Historical Mystery For You
The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Under a Red Moon: A 1920s Bangalore Mystery Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tread of Angels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Word Is Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarian of Crooked Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Watchmaker's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sworn to Silence: A Kate Burkholder Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things in Jars: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries Volume One: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When I Come Home Again: 'A page-turning literary gem' THE TIMES, BEST BOOKS OF 2020 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Courting Dragons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sentence Is Death: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spider's Web Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Guardian of Lies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Between Earth and Sky Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Line to Kill: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Speaks the Nightbird Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untitled Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Last Jew in Prague Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girl from Rawblood: A Gothic Horror Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for The Search for the Girl
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
The Search for the Girl - Cottrel Hoe
Table of Contents
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION
THE SEARCH FOR THE GIRL
THE SEARCH FOR THE GIRL
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION
Edited text copyright © 2021 by Wildside Press LLC.
Introduction © 2021 by John Betancourt.
Originally published in The Windsor Magazine (1898).
Published by Wildside Press LLC.
wildsidepress.com | bcmystery.com
INTRODUCTION
A woman reporter in Victorian England? Who solves mysteries? Scandalous! But I want to read more…
That’s what I imagine readers said in January, 1898, when the Jennie Baxter series by Cottrel Hoe debuted in the British publication, The Windsor Magazine. Jennie went on to have 8 more adventures.
The Windsor Magazine was a monthly illustrated publication produced by Ward Lock & Co from January 1895 to September 1939. It ran for a total of 537 issues. To cash in on the popularity of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes mysteries (and Sherlock’s friends and rivals) in The Strand, The Windsor Magazine began to publish its own mysery series, including the adventures of Jennie Baxter. She gets her start in journalism in the first installment, "The Daily Bugle Misses ‘A Hit’" (it’s a pun—get it?) and goes on to tackle a series of puzzling cases that only a woman with pluck—and the backing of a major newspaper—could solve.
It may seem odd that Sherlock Holmes would spawn a rival series with a female protagonist—but as any writer will tell you, you need an interesting hook to sell a series, and would could be more interesting than reversing traditional gender roles? There is also precedent for women detectives in Victorian literature going back to Wilkie Collins’ The Diary of Anne Rodway (1856) and Revelations of a Lady Detective, by W.S. Hayward (1868). Other women sleuths of the era include Anna Katherine Green’s Amelia Butterworth mysteries (1897-1901), as well as her series of short stories featuring Violet Strange, the first ‘girl detective’ (collected in 1915); and M. McDonnell Bodkin published Dora Myrl: Lady Detective in 1900 (and later married her off to his other detective, Paul Beck!) And there are numerous short stories in British magazines like The Strand.
As for the Jennie Baxter author, Cottrel Hoe
—I suspect he or she is hidden behind a pseudonym. I could