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100	1		_aSims, George R. _q(George Robert), _d1847-1922
245	1	0	_aDorcas Dene, detective
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-11-16
505	0		_aThe Council of Four -- The Helsham mystery -- The man with the wild eyes -- The secret of the lake -- The diamond lizard -- The prick of a pin -- The mysterious millionaire -- The empty house -- The clothes in the cupboard -- The Haverstock Hill murder -- The brown bear lamp.
508			_aPayton D. Cooke
520			_a"Dorcas Dene, detective" by George R. Sims is a collection of detective stories written in the late 19th century. It follows Dorcas Dene, an actress-turned private investigator who solves delicate cases with tact, disguise, and sharp intuition, aided by her blind artist husband Paul, her forthright mother, and a watchful bulldog. The tales emphasize discretion, social nuance, and quiet justice over public scandal. The opening of the book introduces Dorcas’s origins: first seen as a capable actress, she later turns to detection after her husband’s blindness and guidance from a retired police superintendent, forming a “council of four” at home. In the Helsham case, Dorcas traces a vanished young peer to the theatre, infers a suicide plan from a lover’s letter, and uncovers a buried family secret about inheritance; she arranges a staged drowning to end the scandal quietly and set the rightful succession in motion. Next, summoned as a “nurse” to Orley Park, she investigates Maud Hargreaves’s supposed faint by the lake, reads footprints and a lost hat, and links them to Victor Dubois, a secret husband from her Norwood years; the man, evidently unstable, dies in the lake, and the matter is hushed with an inquest verdict of temporary insanity. The section closes with a new setup at Richmond, where Dorcas—disguised as an American tourist—surveils a trio over coffee, ushering in the next mystery. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: F.V. White & Co., 1897
653			_aCriminal investigation -- Fiction
653			_aEngland -- Fiction
653			_aDetective and mystery stories, English
653			_aWomen private investigators -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/sims-george-r.-dorcas-dene-detective-f.-v.-white-1897/page/n2/mode/1up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77243
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