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Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is the Associate Editor of LitHub's CrimeReads vertical and the Senior Film Writer at LitHub. In addition to Lit Hub, CrimeReads, and Book Marks, her work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, PBS Television, and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate and the Marion E. Ponsford fellow in the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature and entertainment.
It has everything: serial killers, dead bodies, Peter Lorre, and a psychotic convict hiding out after an unfortunate plastic surgery accident that makes him look like Frankenstein's monster.
Her protagonist, Loveday Brooke, was an anomaly amid the Victorian lady detective literary craze, for many reasons—including simply for having been created by a woman.
What the new Netflix film accomplishes in stressing diversity and political equality, it also flubs in erasing the real people who fought for these things.