The “lady detectives” of the stage prepared audiences for the real women who would join police forces and investigative ...

Uzma Jalaluddin’s “Detective Aunty” is a cozy homage to Agatha Christie, Tana French and all other mystery authors.

Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel evokes a mixture of numbness and anxiety in the face of incessant violence.

Emmy-nominated series that follows a young female detective and her three mystery-writing aunts who believe their knowledge of crime fiction makes them perfectly qualified to help her solve ...

It wouldn’t be a female detective list without Nancy Drew. She’s the heroine of the long-running mystery book series beloved by generations — including me, as evidenced by my complete ...

Local author new book in the my middle-grade series, The Relic Detectives. The Relic Detectives: A WASP mystery: Women ...

These books showcase the most memorable of these detectives, ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. When private-eye stories first started appearing in pulp ...

Sara Lodge, who teaches Victorian literature and culture at the University of St. Andrews, points out in “The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective” that these proto-Cagneys and ...