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Jessie Drake is a divorced homicide detective in a series of novels by Rochelle Majer Krich begun 1993. Nancy Drew is one of the best-known "female detectives", starring in a multi-authored series of books created by Edward Stratemeyer in 1930. Portrayed in film by Bonita Granville in Nancy Drew – Detective (1938), Nancy Drew...
Miss Scarlet (formerly titled Miss Scarlet and The Duke) is a British-American period television crime drama created by Rachael New, starring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin as the title characters, two Victorian era detectives.
Maud West was a female detective who owned her own business in the 1920s. [6] She is often regarded as the first British female detective and is known mostly for her undercover jobs. She dealt mostly with adultery cases, but there were also accounts of her work spying on suffragettes in London. [7]
Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse – created by Colin Dexter, played by John Thaw in Inspector Morse (1987 to 2000, original series), and by Shaun Evans in Endeavour (2012 to 2023, prequel series) Detective William Murdoch – created by Maureen Jennings; Furuhata Ninzaburō – created by Kōki Mitani, a Japanese version of Columbo
This list includes pairs or groups of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story. 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 ...
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The Revelations of a Private Detective (1863) The female detective: [the original lady detective, 1864], London: British Library, 2012. ISBN 978-0-7123-5878-1 Reprint of the 1864 edition. The Road Murder. Analysis of this Persistent Mystery (1865) Tales by a Female Detective (1868) Opera Comique (1870) The Death Trap; Or a Cat's-Paw.
The series revoles around the title character, a young woman from Victorian England who works as a mystery author, who also solves real-life mysteries and crimes. The series is set in the same fictional universe as the Sherlock Holmes stories, but in an earlier period, so Holmes is still a boy, and other Holmes characters appear as younger ...