Detective and mystery stories featuring Madame Rosika Storey

Madame Storey is one of the most popular women detectives in crime fiction. In the four short stories in this collection she is called upon to solve crimes and mysteries in her own inimitable fashion. This book includes four stories: The Ashcomb Poor Case The Scrap of lace The Smoke Bandit In the Round Room

Almost unknown today, Footner was a Candadian journalist and author of many adventure and mystery novels. This one, set in New York, features one of the characters from his series: the beautiful Madame Rosika Storey, a private detective. Here she tangles with a psychoanalyst-blackmailer and criminal mastermind. The story has a lot of action and a neat twist in the final paragraph.

There's evil lurking among the summer people enjoying their "cottages" on the cliffs of Newport, R. I. Mme. Storey to the rescue! She's up against a bona fide sociopath this time and atfirst she muffs it. Before, of course,she triumphs. What would a mystery be without conflict?

author: Hulbert Footner published: 1937 language: English. About Author Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. Book Review Highly recommend this book. I love the books from the ‘Golden Age’ of crime fiction, but I’d never heard of Madame Rosika Storey - now I’ve read one book, I’m hooked! If you like Agatha Christie, Patricia Wentworth and Ngaio Marsh, you’ll like this.

William Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a Canadian writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. His first published works were travelogues of canoe trips on the Hudson River and in the Northwest Territory along the Peace River, Hay River and Fraser River. He also wrote a series of northwest adventures during the period 1911 through 1920, including The Sealed Valley (1914) and The Fur Bringers (1920). About 1920 Footner began to write detective fiction. His first series detective character was Madame Rosika Storey. Footner's other series detective is Amos Lee Mappin, a successful, middle aged mystery writer whose crimes tend to occur in New York's cafe society. Mappin is unusual in that his "Watson" (at least in some of his tales) is a young woman, his secretary Fanny Parran. She is one of the few female "Watsons" in fiction, an example of how female-oriented Footner's fiction is. Amongst his other works are: Two on the Trail (1911), New Rivers of the North (1912), Jack Chanty (1913), The Huntress (1917), Thieve's Wit (1918), The Substitute Millionaire (1919), The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest (1920) and The Owl Taxi (1921).