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.

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 ...

Being born again at that moment, Pagels writes in her remarkable “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus ... she has written wide-audience books including “Origin of ...

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 ...