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 ...

She was a no-nonsense detective in her sixties who spoke plainly ... Vera’s crime-busting days are now finally drawing to a ...

And she focuses on these tensions to draw out comparisons ... Unlike the first season of “True Detective” — critics described female characters then as mostly peripheral — López says ...

Better yet, they further expand how TV’s female detectives can look and act. All of these shows adhere to the crime procedural’s beloved conventions. The hyper-logical detective figure is as ...

She may be a bit prickly, but she’s full of heart and quite a unique female detective.” Sign up to get the latest news on your favorite dramas and mysteries, as well as exclusive content ...

If you love Miss Scarlet and The Duke and admire Eliza Scarlet’s unconventional career as a private detective, you’ll be amazed at history’s real female trailblazers! Turns out that while ...