![]() ![]() Although she thought his plot and suggestions capital, she felt she hadn’t done Eustace’s ideas justice. If you’ve heard of him in any other context, it’s probably because he provided Dorothy L Sayers with the plot of her non-Peter Wimsey crime novel, The Documents in the Case. She did however produce many adult romances, mysteries and thrillers, and the one we want to mention to day are in the latter categories, the results of a curious collaboration.Įustace Robert Barton (1854–1943) was a doctor and writer from the south of England, who used the pen name Robert Eustace. With more than 300 books and many magazine stories to her credit, she was widely read at the time, particularly because of her books for young people. We shall explain… The Master – all shall be made clear later belowĮlizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), writing as L T Meade, was a clergyman’s daughter from County Cork in Ireland. Some say that she established the first female ‘Moriarty’, the first female leader of a Mafioso brotherhood, and even the first female occult detective. In these, you will find the most brilliant and twisted female villains, murders by extraordinary means, and the tireless intertwining of evil across continents. ![]() Not because of her brilliance per se, but because of the pivotal importance of the detective stories she wrote with Robert Eustace. Everyone should read L T Meade, especially Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts. The supernatural horror that isn’t the most wicked women in the world, and emus. ![]()
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