On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking in doors, taking down names and sleuthing out villains. From Olivia Benson ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Lovesey: his first Cribb novel, Wobble to Death (1970), exhumed the bizarre Victorian phenomenon of the ‘wobble’ or ...

Sherlock Holmes’s martial arts prowess helped him fend off Moriarty. Katherine Smalls, one of the sleuths in “The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective,” has useful combat skills, too: fan fighting.

The Victorian lady detectives are back for a final comic caper, and it takes place at the ornate Berkeley City Club located on 2315 Durant Ave. Curtain Calls: Enlist to watch ‘A Few Good Men’ at ...