Description
Mary Fortune was aremarkablewoman who was alsooneof the first female writers to ever cover the challenging, and later highly sought out, topic of detective stories. Well before she would have had works such as those of Arthur Conan Doyle’s toinspireher,WaifWander (or W.W.),as she signedherpseudonym,was abletocreate incredibly mysteriousandhighly imaginative talesthatfascinated readers throughout the19thcentury.Her lengthy writingcareer spannedoverdecades duringtheVictorian period,and gavetheworld manyoutstandingworks,suchas her well-knownhorror,story,TheWhiteManiac:ADoctor’sTale.PerhapsFortune’s mostimpressiveandhighly regarded workoffiction,however,is TheDetective’sAlbumaseriesof numerousshortstories writtenaboutdetective Mark Sinclair.Sinclair was inmanyways anearlierversion of SherlockHolmes,however,hishumanqualities sethimapart as a unique.Ten of thebeststories from TheDetective’sAlbum wereselected and included inthisseries.Stories from theDetective’sAlbum includes titles suchas Checkmate and Revenge, Tom Doyle’s Dream and The Blood of the Grape tales about mysterious crimes, complex situations and unique characters that Mary Fortune has orchestrated through her masterful writing style and storytelling skills.The series is counted among the more than 500 detective stories written by Fortune throughout her long career. She was the very first author to present many of her stories from the perspective of the detective himself, and her unique approach to telling stories still completely immerses modern readers into the eye-catching adventures of her characters.The Detective Album was serialized and published by the Australian Journal for 40 years, being the longest-running early series of detective stories ever written.