The Secret Hobby of a Detective

Mary Cavendish has always had a secret hankering to be a detective. But would you really choose, as a profession, if you could just consult your inclination? Well, that depends. No secret hobby, she asked. Everyone is, usually something absurd. You'll laugh at me. She smiled. Perhaps. The real thing, Scotland Yard, or Sherlock Holmes,. by all means. I am awfully drawn to it. Lots of nonsense written though. Criminal discovered in last chapter, everyone dumbfounded. Real crime, you know I once. There have been a great number of undiscovered crimes, I argued. Before the war, I was in loins, and you will return there