A review by frances_ab
Mr Bazalgette's Agent by Leonard Merrick

2.0

This book is billed as the first novel to feature a female detective. Written as a series of diary entries by our heroine,who becomes a detective when all other job prospects have dried up, this is more of an extended hunt for the villain and provides little mystery or drama. There is some very dated/cringe-inducing racism/gender stereotyping/class consciousness. The ending, for a mystery or crime novel, is disappointing. To be read as a literary-historical curiosity.