13 Female Mystery Authors - Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/female-mystery-authors-detectives_n_1785110.html?utm_hp_ref%3DbooksThe first female detective is generally agreed to have been "G", the hero of "The Female Detective," an 1864 novel soon to be republished by the British Library. However, the author was a man, James Redding Ware; it took another twenty years or so ...
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