Video games with compelling female detectives offer riveting gameplay and great writing. Detectives like Anaya, Lynne, Ema Skye, Kyoko Kirigiri, Aya Brea, and Naoto are standout characters. From a ...

As Ms. Lodge notes, “in truth, however, the lives of female detectives were more likely to be working class, more precarious, more humdrum, more morally ambiguous and less financially secure.

Female detectives worked in other areas too. Women were employed in undercover work during the Great Exhibition of 1851. Posing as members of the public, they would watch for people acting ...

Meet History’s Trailblazing Female Detectives . 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 ...

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 ...