yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

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Title: Madame Storey - Hulbert Footner

Media: Books (available as public domain ebooks in many regions)

Approx length: 8 short novels/collections.

Where to find it: Downloadable from Faded Page here. Otherwise, I guess you'd be chancing your luck at second hand book stores.

What is it, in summary?: Canadian detective stories from the 1920s, featuring the beautiful flapper private investigator and "practical psychologist specialising in the feminine" Roskia Storey, narrated by her plain, freckled, red-headed secretary Bella Brickley.

What do you love about it?:

Well, they are 1920s detective stories with a ravishingly beautiful flapper detective with a pet monkey. Her beauty and indifference madden men, but none are capable of mastering her soul, so she is forced to remain "respectable and unmarried".* She also has a female secretary who is so plain she hates people to look at her (but her ginger hair matches the emerald drapes) but adores female beauty. Did I mention the pet monkey?

The f/f potential is right up my street.

Here is Bella (who confesses herself an admirer of female beauty) describing Mme Storey:

She was very tall and supremely graceful. It was impossible to think of legs in connexion with her movements. She floated into the room like a shape wafted on the breeze. She was darkly beautiful in the insolent style that causes plainer women to prim up their lips.

She wore an extraordinary gown, a taupe silk brocaded with a shadowy gold figure, made in long panels that exaggerated her height and slimness, unrelieved by any trimming whatsoever. On her head she wore an odd little hat of the same colour with an exquisite plume curled around the brim. All this was very well, but what made the women gasp was that snuggled in the hollow of her arm she carried a black monkey dressed in a coat of Paddy green, and a foolscap hung with tiny gold bells.

She looked us over with eyebrows registering delicate mockery, and glanced at the ape as if to call his attention to the spectacle. Nevertheless she was not displeased by the sensation her entrance had created. I suspected that she had lingered outside especially to create that dramatic pause.

Mme Storey, on the other hand, on Bella:

"But you, one can see, are suffering from malappreciation. Those two ugly lines between your brows were born of the belief that you were too plain and uninteresting ever to hope to win a niche of your own in the world. And so you are if you think you are. But you don't have to think so. Think that cross look away and your face will show what is rarer than beauty—character, individuality. Old Time himself cannot rob you of that."

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Pastiche, femslash, casefic

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfill your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: One or two would be more than enough to pick up flavour and characterisation.

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): Best to assume period and genre-typical everything.

* I am devouring the series, but I suppose it is possible she eventually finds a man up to her standards. Obviously, I think she's in need of a sensible ginger secretary instead.

I don't know if I'll have time, but this sounds intriguing. Do you have a favourite volume in the series that you especially recommend? Should I begin with the first book, or is it okay to pick another one first?

I'd start with the first one! It's a collection of four novellas, and honestly reading the first of the novellas is enough to get the flavour.

(Whether you do it for Yuletide or not, they are so much fun)

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