It’s 1894 in London, England, and Albertine Honeycombe is a woman ahead of her time. She’s not looking for a husband and a houseful of children. But when her father dies, her male cousin who inherits the estate plans to marry her off to a local farmer with fifteen children to raise. Albertine and her friend/maid Joan run away to London.
But society doesn’t smile on a working single woman. So Albertine creates Countess von Dagga, a married woman whose husband is conveniently absent, who is a private investigator for women at the top strata of society. This gives her more freedom than a single woman, but even so, society has its rules. To front her detective agency, she hires Spencer, who is, unbeknownst to her, an actual Scotland Yard detective and the Earl of Erleigh. And from there, the adventures begin.
Albertine is suspected in the poisoning death of a man she was retrieving letters from for a client. What she doesn’t know is Spencer is investigating her, even as they take on cases for her agency.
There were a few unlikely adventures and things did get rather silly at times, like an experience that Joan and Albertine shared by the banks of the Thames River.
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