Female Detective
By Andrew Forrester · Running time 08:09:28 · Detective Fiction
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About this book
This 1864 collection of stories is one of the first books featuring a female detective character. Andrew Forrester (pseudonym of James Redding Ware) presents himself as editor of these “memoirs,” though he is actually the author. Our detective is anonymous, writing only as the first person “I,” beginning the introduction with, “Who am I? It can matter little who I am.” Her reason for writing the book is to show “…that the profession to which I belong is so useful that it should not be despised.” Throughout the stories, besides the events of her cases recounted, she weaves commentaries about de
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