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Mitin Masi is a fictional female detective character created by Indian writer Suchitra Bhattacharya; Charlene Mack is an African-American, lesbian private investigator from Detroit. The Charlie Mack Motown Mystery Series by Cheryl A. Head debuted in 2016.
Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction. These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction , particularly in detective novels and short stories . Much of early detective fiction was written during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction " (1920s–1930s).
The following is a list of female writers in the detective and mystery genres. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B. The author who created the team appears in parentheses. Detective Duos: Anabel and Looker – Author Bryant and John May – (Christopher Fowler)
A professional female detective appeared in the popular stories Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective, written by Hugh Cosgro Weir in 1909. [1] But the earliest published version of a girl sought out as an amateur detective appears in the story collection The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange, by Anna Katharine Green, published in 1915.
He was the first fictional private investigator [18] Nameless Detective: Bill Pronzini: The Snatch [19] (1971) Harry Orwell: Howard Rodman: Harry O (TV) (1974) Hercule Poirot: Agatha Christie: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) Ellery Queen: Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee: The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) Agatha Raisin: M.C. Beaton
As detective novels grew in popularity, there became an increase in authors writing about women, and woman detectives especially. Among these authors was Andrew Forrester, who wrote about the mysterious "Miss G." Miss G. is often viewed as the first fictional female detective, although some would argue that the first female detective was Mrs ...
James Redding Ware (1832 – c. 1909, pseudonym Andrew Forrester) was a British writer, novelist and playwright, creator of one of the first female detectives in fiction. His last known work was a dictionary .