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  2. List of female detective characters - Wikipedia

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    Laura Caxton is a Pennsylvania State Trooper turned vampire hunter in a fantasy series by David Wellington (debuted 2006). Lois Cayley is an adventurous young woman in an early mystery novel by Grant Allen (1899). Catherine Chandler is a NYPD detective played by Kristin Kreuk in Beauty & the Beast.

  3. List of female detective/mystery writers - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Fenwick and E. P. Fenwick (pseudonyms for Elizabeth Fenwick Way) Mary Fitt (pseudonym for Kathleen Freeman) (1897–1959) Joanne Fluke (born 1943) Gillian Flynn (born 1971) Elena Forbes. Karin Fossum (born 1954) Earlene Fowler (born 1954) Barbara Fradkin.

  4. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    Boston Blackie – reformed jewel thief, created by Jack Boyle. Rosemary Boxer – with Laura Thyme, gardening detective, created by Brian Eastman. Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley – widowed socialite, created by Gladys Mitchell. Father Brown – Catholic priest, created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton.

  5. Agatha Christie - Wikipedia

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    Agatha Christie. Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running ...

  6. Miss Marple - Wikipedia

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    She is not from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them; as a gentlewoman, Miss Marple may thus be considered a female version of the gentleman detective, a staple of British detective fiction. She demonstrates a remarkably thorough education, including some art courses that involved the study of human anatomy using ...

  7. Mary Roberts Rinehart - Wikipedia

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    Mary Roberts Rinehart. Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. [1] Rinehart published her first mystery novel The Circular Staircase in 1908, which introduced the "had I but known" narrative style. Rinehart is also considered the earliest known source of ...

  8. Nancy Drew - Wikipedia

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    Detective. Family. Carson Drew (father) Nationality. American. Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and a TV show as a teenage amateur sleuth. The books are ghostwritten by a number of authors and published under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene. [1]

  9. V. I. Warshawski - Wikipedia

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    Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski, called "Vic" by her friends, is the daughter of Italian-born Gabriella Sestrieri, who was half-Jewish and fled the Mussolini regime in 1941. [3] Trained as an opera singer, she was destitute when she arrived as a refugee immigrant. She met and married Anton "Tony" Warshawski, a Polish American police officer in ...

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