‘Throughout history, the PI role has been seen as a job for an unshaven male in a raincoat in need of a talented dry cleaner, yet plenty of women have taken advantage of their social invisibility to excel…Caitlin Davies finds herself drawn to the idea of testing herself as a sleuth and while working her way through aspects of detective craft, she applies her archive-sifting skills to build a picture of the history of women in the profession’.