The book chronicles the history of real-life women detectives, who
risked their lives to solve mysteries, catch miscreants, and unearth
conspiracies to make both the home and the world a safer place.
Beginning with Kate Warne (1833 -1868), the first female detective (who
worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and saved President Lincoln
from being assassinated), the book goes on narrating the tales of some
of the sharpest female sleuths who could rival the intelligence and
vigor of their male counterparts including: Belle Boyd, who spied for
the Confederacy during the American Civil War, riding her horse at
breakneck speed between the lines to deliver her dispatches; Vienna-born
photographer Edith Taylor, who spotted British traitors working for
Stalin in the 1930s - among them, Kim Philby. Also presented is Corrie
Ten Boom, who eight hundred men, women, and children from the Nazis
during the German occupation of Holland in World War II. And not to be
missed, Polish Countess Krystina Skarbe, who spied for Britain in
German-occupied Europe only to be abandoned and then stabbed in a London
hotel.
