Miss Scarlet
U&Alibi • Jan 11 • 2020When Eliza Scarlet's father dies, he leaves her penniless, but she resolves to continue his detective agency. To operate in a male-dominated world, though, she needs a partner - step forward a detective known as the Duke.
Miss Scarlet keeps the period crime tension front and center, with women blocked from their profession and cases that turn on social maneuvering as much as evidence. In 1880s London, the stubborn partnership and friction-driven investigations feel close to The Law According to Lidia Poët’s courtroom-adjacent resistance, but it leans a bit lighter and more partnership-forward.



