The Female Detective

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THE FEMALE DETECTIVE-- PROFESSIONALS:

[Their "spiritual ancestor" is Mrs. Palmyra Evangeline Pym, a Home Office investigator loaned out to Scotland Yard for special assignments and known for both her eccentric appearance and her willingness to use extralegal means to resolve her cases, created by Nigel Morland.]

Rachel Alexander, a New York private investigator with credentials as a dog trainer (created by Carol Lea Benjamin);

Carol Ashton, a police inspector in Sydney, Australia (created by Claire McNab);

Barbara Babalino, a police detective (created by Tom Philbin);

Masey Baldridge, operator of the Big River Detective Agency in Missouri during the Reconstruction era (created by James D. Brewer);

Ginger Barnes, a private investigator based in Philadelphia (created by Donna Huston Murray);

Lilly Bennett, a marshal and part-time private investigator in Bennett's Fort, Wyoming, who has university degrees in both criminology and toxicology (created by Marne Davis Kellogg);

Joanna Blalock, a forensic pathologist in Los Angeles (created by Leonard Goldberg);

Joanna Brady, the Sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona (created by J.A. Jance);

Kate Brannigan, a private investigator in Manchester, Great Britain (created by Val McDermid);

Annie Broussard, a policewoman in Partout Parish, Louisiana (created by Tami Hoag);

Eileen Burke, detective in the 87th precinct (created by Ed McBain);

Nora Callum, an amputee in the Chicago police department (created by Thomas McCall);

Carlotta Carlyle, a tall, blues playing, Boston private investigator , who is also an ex-cop (created by Linda Barnes);

Sunny Childs, a caustic private investigator (created by Ruth Birmingham)

Kat Colorado, a California private investigator (created by Karen Kijewski);

Bertha Cool, a private investigator based in Reno who works with an ex-lawyer named Donald Lam (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Edwina Crusoe, a nurse and part-time private investigator in New Haven, Connecticutt (created by Mary Kitteredge);

Sandrine Curry, a private investigator based with her husband in New York City (created by Michael Bowen);

Eve Dallas, a police detective in late-21st century New York (created by J.D. Robb);

Charmian Daniels, Police Constable for Deerham Hills, specializing in psycho killings (created by Jennie Melville);

Ruby Dark, a Denver bail bondswoman (created by Bruce W. Most);

Jane Da Silva, a part-time private investigator and part-time lounge singer in the Pacific Northwest (created by K.K. Beck);

Athena Dawes, a novice private investigator (created by Anita Gentry);

Kate Delafield, a lesbian LAPD homicide detective and former Marine (created by Katherine Forrest);

Patricia Delaney, a private investigator in Cincinnati, Ohio (created by Sharon Gwyn Short);

Lee Diamond, a private investigator based in New Orleans (created by Chris Wiltz);

Carroll Dorsey, an insurance-fraud investigator in Pittsburgh (created by Thomas Lipinski);

Maggie Elliott, a private investigator (created by Elizabeth Atwood Taylor);

Colleen Fitzgerald, a lesbian insurance investigator (created by Barbara Johnson);

Kathy "Kaz" Flood, a detective constable in Brighton, UK (created by Alex Keegan);

Laura Flynn, a private investigator based in London (created by Lesley Grant-Adamson);

Theresa Franco, a forty-year-old grandmother who works as a private investigator (created by Carolyn Chambers Clark);

Margo Franklin, a private investigator based in Chicago (created by Jerry Jenkins);

Lupe Garcia, a Detroit homicide detective (created by Doug Allyn);

Cordelia Gray, a London private investigator (created by P.D. James);

Judy Hammer, police chief of Charlotte (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Sigrid Harald, a thirty-something, New York City police detective (created by Margaret Maron);

Kate Harrad, a Los Angeles homicide detective (created by Laura Coburn);

Tamara Hayle, a Newark, New Jersey, private investigator (created by Valerie Wilson Wesley);

Sergeant Eddie Henderson, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (created by L.R. Wright);

Michaela Hoolihan, a British police detective (created by Martin Amis);

Jeri Howard, a private investigator in Oakland, California (created by Janet Dawson);

Emma Howe, a private investigator in her 50's (created by Gillian Roberts);

Cassidy James, a lesbian private investigator based in Portland, Oregon (created by Kate Calloway);

Lena Jones, a private investigator (created by Betty Webb);

Elena Jarvis, an officer with the Los Santos, Texas, police force (created by Nancy Herndon);

Detective Inspector Carol Jordan (created by Val Macdermid);

Alison Kaine, a lesbian police officer (created by Kate Allen);

Jackie Kaminsky, a police detective (created by Margot Dalton);

Micky Knight, a lesbian New Orleans private investigator (created by J.M. Redmann);

Kathy Kolla, a detective with Scotland Yard (created by Barry Maitland);

Karen Kovac, a Chicago police detective (created by Bill Granger);

Meg Lacey, a Canadian private investigator (created by Elizabeth Bowers);

Dominica "Dee" Laguerre, a ranger with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (created by Kirk Mitchell);

Raina Lambert, a private investigator (created by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.);

Skip Langdon, a female police officer in New Orleans (created by Julie Smith);

Marian Larch, a New York City police detective (created by Barbara Paul);

Anna Lee, a British private investigator (created by Liza Cody);

Marti MacAlister, an African-American private investigator (created by Eleanor Taylor Bland);

Joanna MacKenzie, a private investigator in Bath, Great Britain (created by Margaret Duffy);

Scotia MacKinnon, a private investigator based in southern California (created by Sharon Duncan);

Gianna Maglione, a police officer in Washington, D.C. (created by Penny Micklebury);

Kathleen Mallory, a police sergeant (created by Carol O'Connell);

Daisy Marlow, a private investigator based in Las Vegas (created by D. Miller Morgan);

Kate Martinelli, a San Francisco police detective (created by Laurie R. King);

Angela Matelli, a Boston private investigator (created by Wendi Lee);

Amanda Maxwell, a member of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit (created by Doris Mortman);

Lauren Maxwell, a wildlife investigator (created by Elizabeth Quinn);

Sharon McCone, an investigator for the All Souls Legal Cooperative in San Francisco (created by Marcia Mueller);

Kinsey Milhone, a private investigator based in a fictional version of Santa Barbara, California (created by Sue Grafton);

Dana Miller, a private investigator in Chicago (created by Sherryl Woods);

Tess Monaghan, a Baltimore private investigator who was formerly a journalist (created by Laura Lippman);

Cordelia Morgan, a privately contracted undercover agent (created by B. Reese Johnson);

Norah Mulcahaney, a New York police detective featured in novels with the atmosphere of "high class soap opera," created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Kate Murphy, a San Francisco homicide detective (created by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie);

Dora Myrl, turn-of-the-century Irish detective (created by M. McDonnell Bodkin);

Rita Noonan, a private investigator (created by Michael Hendricks);

Ellen North, a prosecuting attorney in Park County, Minnesota (created by Tami Hoag);

Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, San Diego private investigator and ex-medical examiner (created by Susan Dunlap);

Bridget O'Toole, a former nun turned private investigator in Chicago (created by Frank McConnell);

Lorraine Page, a police officer in Los Angeles (created by Lynda La Plante);

Tina Paris, an investigator in the New York Special Prosecutor’s Office (created by Linda Chase and Joyce St. George);

Anna Peters, a private investigator in the Northeast (created by Janice Law);

Carmen Pharoah, a police detective in York, UK (created by Peter Turnbull);

Anna Pigeon, National Parks Ranger (created by Nevada Barr);

Marvia Plum, a police detective in California (created by Richard Lupoff);

Stephanie Plum (created by Janet Evanovich);

Laura Principal, a British private investigator (created by Michelle Spring);

Deb Ralston, a homicide detective in Fort Worth, Texas (created by Lee Martin);

Gwenn Ramadge, a private investigator based in New York City (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Caitlin Reece, a private investigator in British Columbia, Canada (created by Lauren Wright Douglas);

Savannah Reid, a sexy private investigator in the affluent town of San Carmelita (created by G.A. McKevett);

Regan Reilly, a private investigator (created by Carol Higgins Clark);

Kelly Ryan, a private investigator (created by Kate Grilley);

Christine Saksis, an F.B.I. agent (created by Margaret Truman);

Catherine Sayler, a private investigator in the San Francisco Bay area (created by Linda Grant);

Kay Scarpatta, chief medical examiner for the state of Virginia (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Mavis Seidlitz, an early female private investigator (created by Carter Brown);

Kate Shugak, a former investigator for the Anchorage district attorney's office who is now living in the far north (created by Dana Stabenow);

Phoebe Siegel, a Billings, Montana, private investigator who is a former policewoman (created by Sandra West Prowell);

Jill Smith, Berkeley homicide detective (created by Susan Dunlap);

Joanna Stark, a security expert for art museums (created by Marcia Muller);

Rachel Starr, a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department (created by Lue Zimmelman);

Alex Tanner, a Chicago private investigator (created by Anabel Donald);

Nikki Trakos, a homicide detective in New York City (created by Ruby Horansky);

Claudia Valentine, an Australian private investigator (created by Marele Day);

Talba "Baroness Pontalba" Wallis, an African-American private investigator based in New Orleans (created by Julie Smith);

V.I. Warshowski, one of the prototypical harboiled female private investigators (created by Sara Paretsky);

Terry Webb, a sergeant in the New York City police force (created by William DeAndrea);

Delilah West, a private investigator based in Orange County, California (created by Maxine O'Callaghan);

Honey West, an early female private investigator (created by Skip and Gloria Fickling);

Yvonne Robinson, the owner of a detective agency (created by Peter Whalley);

Hannah Wolfe, a private investigator in London (created by Sarah Dunant);

April Woo, a Chinese-American police officer (created by Leslie Glass);

Susan Wren, the police chief in a small Kansas town (created by Charlene Weir).