On the screen and on the page, today we are accustomed to seeing fictional representations of women detectives kicking in doors, taking down names and sleuthing out villains. From Olivia Benson ...

Female TV crime-solvers are on a hot streak. But they are no longer helpless damsels, sexualized minxes, or traumatized vigilantes. Instead, these offbeat, often neurodivergent-coded female sleuths ...

First we read Nancy Drew, girl detective. Then what? Women of Mystery explores the writing lives of three authors (Sara Paretsky, Sue Grafton & Marcia Muller) who started a literary revolution and, in ...

The class was talking about Betty, who they originally thought was such a nice girl. “She just seemed so innocent …” said one student. “She’s not the one you’d expect to be a straight-up liar.” ...

Everyone knows Agatha Christie. But what about the other women authors who flourished during the “Golden Age of Detective Fiction” in the 1920s and ‘30s? Does anyone remember Dorothy L. Sayers, ...

Not long before her death in 1982, I commented to Anna Freud on the large collection of detective fiction in the house she shared with her father in his final years of exile in London. She informed me ...