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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Female detectives"”.
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A Band of Sisters: Female Detectives, Authority, and Fiction from 1864 to the 1930s
… views in disguise. For fictional detectives and, especially female detectives, disguise is an effective tool for solving their cases. Often, these detectives will disguise themselves as someone infinitely more conservative than they are in order to gain access to their quarry. …
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Female Detectives, Female Criminals: An Examination Of Crime, Modernity And The New Woman In Early French And American Crime Films In The Us During The 1910s
… dissertation explores the representations of the female detective figure and the female criminal in early American and French crime films within the context of social and technological modernity related to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of communicative technology, …
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“Petticoated police,” “intimate watching” and private agency(ies): reading the female detective of Fin-de-siècle British literature
… and New Editions introduced to its readers "a Female Sherlock Holmes" (12). This was Loveday Brooke, in C. L. Pirkis‘s collection The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective. Loveday is one of many professional female detectives who traversed the pages of short stories, both serialised …
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Networks of paranoia: narratives of crime and detection in 21st century Latin America
… centered on financial crimes. Through paranoid female detectives, these novels present the post-conflict context of these countries as rife with suspicion and mistrust, where the more “legitimate” side of capitalism becomes linked to narcotrafficking. In Chapter Four I turn to Juan Villoro’s …