Stephan M Arleaux

The Lady Pi I Stephan M Arleaux

The time was the 1950s, England was the place; and yet what is a young lady like Felicity Forte' doing in a private detective agency? She's working there, as a clever sleuth, a female Sherlock Holmes of sorts. "Felicity Forte', at this period of her career, was a little over thirty years of age, and could be best described in a series of negations. "I was not tall, I was not short; I was not dark, I was not fair; I was neither beautiful nor ugly. My features were altogether nondescript"; her two noticeable traits were her habits. "I had-when absorbed in thought, a habit of dropping my eyelids over my eyes till only a line of eyeball showed, and I appeared to be looking out at the world through a slit, instead of through a window. My dress was invariably black, and yet chic and businesslike in its neat primness." But what one could say affirmatively about her was that Felicity Forte' was a naturally talented private detective, a chosen career that had cut her off sharply from her former associates and her position in society. She demonstrates her skills in seven cases: