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Dead Language and Other Stories, the latest in the thrilling Elvira Slate Investigations 1940s feminist crime series
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Praise for Elvira Slate Investigations
'In Elvira Slate, Jacey has created a slick Forties sleuth that could inspire the toughest 21st century feminist.’
![Celia Walden](http://www.helenjacey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/download.jpg)
'Elvira Slate is everything we need in a female sleuth, an outsider with nothing to lose and a nose for the truth. She’s a beacon of light in a shoddy and corrupt world.’
![Sarah Gavron](http://www.helenjacey.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/download-1.jpg)
‘She is the noir anti-heroine we’ve long been missing.’
![Savannah James-Bayly](http://www.helenjacey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/1516881458503-1.jpg)
"A tough, street-wise female detective Philip Marlowe would have been proud to work with.’"
![Stephen Wyatt](http://www.helenjacey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/images.jpg)
‘If like me you wanted Forties noir films to stop following the male gumshoe and follow the fascinating sassy dame and brassy broads then this book is for you.’
![Kay Stonham](http://www.helenjacey.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/images-1.jpg)
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