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"There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold;The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold."

Robert W. Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee."

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Although it may lack the labyrinthine sewers of Paris, the mean streets of Los Angeles, or the low and vile alleys of London, Toronto is not without its places of danger, excitement and romance. In Bloody York, thirteen Canadian writers from the late nineteenth century to today find intrigue, mystery and terror in the familiar streets and places of Toronto, in stories set from the 1860s to beyond the present.

Meet some fascinating females:

• Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller
• Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War
• the 60s Eve Adam, the "Rock Hit of Prague," whose methods violate all the "rules" for detective books
• and, very much of the 1990s, vampire detective Vicki Nelson, whose beat is Toronto s Queen Street West

As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvin s introduction describes hundreds of female sleuths and their creators in an...