Mr Bazalgette's Agent

When Miriam Lea falls on hard times, an advertisement calling for private agents catches her eye, and within weeks she finds herself in Mr Bazalgette's employ as a private detective, travelling on a train to Hamburg in pursuit of an audacious fraudster. What follows is a journey through some of the great cities of Europe — and eventually to South Africa — as Miss Lea attempts to find her man. Miriam Lea is only the third ever British professional female detective to appear in a work of crim...