Created by Stella Duffy Back in the 1990s the British government came up with this bright idea of encouraging those on the dole to set up their own businesses. So SAZ MARTIN tells them she's going to become a private eye. So now the South London "dyke detective" (her publisher's description) is ready for action, … Continue reading Saz Martin
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Harriet Morrow
Created by Rob Osler Is it just me? Or does there seem to be a surprising number of books and other media in the first few decades of the 21st century inspired by Kate Warne, the Pinkerton Detective Agency's first female operative? Some are endless retellings of the same facts, others offer fictionalized and romanticized … Continue reading Harriet Morrow
Sister Holiday Walsh
Created by Margot Douaihy In her debut, 2023's Scorched Grace, SISTER HOLIDAY, a young nun with the Sisters of the Sublime Blood order in New Orleans, proved herself to be a particularly effective amateur sleuth. Seems she has a thing about unanswered questions. And isn't that what faith is, really? The unsolvable mystery? But this … Continue reading Sister Holiday Walsh
Juneau
Created by M. Turner "Rain finds me in the end." It's 1964 and JUNEAU is a private eye in a couple of books, Private Eyes (2021) and a prequel, 1, 2, 3, Die (2022), by Canadian author M. Turner. Juneau's locked into the rhythm, and rolled in a million tropes, clichés, lifted from old movies and … Continue reading Juneau
What Were Once Vices…
Notable Gay and Lesbian Eyes Sam Spade seemed to take some genuine pleasure in belittling and slapping around both Wilmer (that gunsel!) and Joel Cairo in The Maltese Falcon, but homosexuals (and transsexuals) have already been treated more or less the same way in the genre for decades--and would continue to be so for decades … Continue reading What Were Once Vices…
Gloria Morris
Created by G.R. Browda "Gloria doesn't care from legal." -- Bannon tries to explain Gloria Look out! GLORIA MORRIS is a smart, literate San Francisco private eye; an easy-on-the-eyes B-girl with a good rep and an "explosive sense of honor," with a fondness for Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain and "frisky ladies." I'm not quite … Continue reading Gloria Morris
Helen Keremos
Created by Eve Zaremba Back in the eighties, The Globe and Mail called HELEN KEREMOS "the best of the feminist lesbian detectives." I'm not sure about the best, but she certainly was one of the first, and certainly the first (1978) to be printed by a mainstream press (Paperjacks). Personally, I found her a little … Continue reading Helen Keremos
Alma Rosales
Created by Katrina Carrasco Mama, don't let your babies grown up to be cowgirls? All of a sudden, female operatives for turn-of-the-century (the last one) detective agencies are hot. But some are hotter than others. Particularly bi-sexual "half-Mexican" ALMA ROSALES, a square peg in the increasingly corporate round hole that the Pinkerton Detective Agency had already … Continue reading Alma Rosales
Kieran Yeats
Created by Linda J. Wright Pseudonyms include Lauren Wright Douglas Last I heard of the author, she was Lauren Wright Douglas, and she had just written a series of books featuring Victoria, British Columbia lesbian private eye Caitlin Reece, who used to work for the Crown Attorney office, and carries a .357 Magnum. But now, almost … Continue reading Kieran Yeats
Caitlin Reece
Created by Lauren Wright Douglas Pseudonym of Linda J. Wright Fortyish feminist and lesbian CAITLIN REECE used to be with the Crown Attorney office, but when we meet her in her debut, The Always Anonymous Beast (1987), she's squeezing out a living as a private peeper, working the rain-drenched but oh-so-clean and touristy streets of … Continue reading Caitlin Reece