Miss Cora Strayer's Private Detective Agency

[browngirl]

She truly deserves a novel, a biography, a biopic, and a TV series.

Paul Reda's webpage on Cora Strayer, as sparked vy an ad in vintage_ads. With thanks to boosette for the link to this Friday's fabulousness.

Comments

[gingicat]

There is a series of novels about someone who is *like* her, at least in being an independent woman running a detective agency; the character Maisie Dobbs and the stories are extraordinary. I stole heavily from them when characterizing Dr. Grace Ironstone in a Yuletide story.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool! *makes note*

[contrarywise]

That? Is full of win!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Isn't she?

(Eee, CAPTAIN JACK.)

[achinhibitor.livejournal.com]

That is awesome!

This item was so soap-operatic that I chuckled:

1907 - Cora is hired by a Mrs. Campbell who believes that a Mrs. Harris is writing fake letters in order to make it look like she is having an affair with Dr. Harris and so she may blackmail her. Cora takes Mrs. Harris on a trip to Milwaukee, gets her drunk on $150 of fine wines, and steals the letters when she is passed out. Turns out Mrs. Campbell and Dr. Harris actually were having an affair and he performed an abortion on her. Mr. Campbell eventually killed Dr. Harris.

I'm a little surprised that the add includes "Geo. S. Holben - Supt. Criminal Dept.", which doesn't seem to be on-message. But maybe it signals "If things get nasty, we also have muscle."

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's... wow. Melodrama.