Maud West, the Original Miss Marple with Susannah Stapleton

Published: Sept. 6, 2019, 10 a.m.

Maud West, operated her own detective agency during the Golden Age of crime in the period after World War One. She used all manner of disguises and tactics to gather information for her clients and to subvert the expected roles for women in this period. For ad free versions of our entire podcast archive and hundreds of hours of history documentaries, interviews and films, signup to History Hit TV. Use code 'pod3' at checkout.  Producer: Peter Curry  


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