Talk:List of female detective characters

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What about Mrs. Polifax by Dorothy Gilman, as in "The Amazing Mrs. Polifax" As in the Amazing Mrs. Polifax

Re Mrs Polifax suggestion - Mrs Polifax seems to be a spy not a detective. Including secret agents, spys and so on would expand the list into a different genre. There may be a couple included but that is in error.Mrs emma hudson (talk) 03:58, 30 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

You forgot Katherine Dance, Jeffery Deavers female detective in "The Sleeping Doll" and "Roadside Crosses" Jessica Fletcher is a writer, not a private investigator; Jane Marple is an OAP. I don't know about most of the others, but as far as I could see, quite a number of them do not really fit into the "private detective" category because they are amateur detectives (which is something different altogether). <KF> 20:52, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest we create an article entitled "List of female characters in detective fiction" and move the article there. Alternatively, if we want the focus of the article to remain with female private detectives - we must delete some entries. I contacted the original editer for their opinion. Thoughts? ParticularlyEvil 05:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am not particularly attached to the list. I would be happy with any cleaning up that anyone wants to do. I was using the term "private detective" loosely--probably too loosely. Logophile 14:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps this list should just be merged with the List of fictional amateur detectives? Then that page could be divided into male and female characters. Tartan 16:48, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why divide the page into male and female? Whatever happened to Gender equality? For that matter, why isn't this article just List of detective characters? Mitch Ames (talk) 02:11, 24 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Private investigators / Daphne Matthews[edit]

I'm assuming that this category is meant to be women who are "private investigators", in which case the red-link for "Daphne Matthews" -- who, as near as I can tell, is a medical examiner in a novel (or novels) by Ridley Pearson -- should be eliminated. Can anyone provide more information about this character? Accounting4Taste 20:41, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Whoops, and thanks GlassFET for cleaning up the list, perhaps this will impel people to flesh it out. Accounting4Taste 20:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

'Fraid I added people who are not detectives strictly speaking[edit]

I didn't check the discussion page first, and got carried away adding stuff to this sad looking list, mainly by going to the List of female detective/mystery writers and adding in their sleuths. Apologies, I have just started experimenting in editing wikipedia.

I have just tried the link to the other list that is mentioned above (with male and female) and it doesn't work. I have seen a list of male and female detectives somewhere but its very short and selective. I think there is an argument for using detective loosely in this list, including police detectives, bounty hunters, private investigators, amateur sleuths and also those protaganists who just happen to wind up investigating murders which for some reason happen around them. Defining it widely shows the way the field is developing with series set in the world of cooking, herbalism, antiques, stockbroking etc and a greater variety of 'detectives'. It could be worth annotating each entry or turning it into a table to make it more useful. eg they could be annotated as private investigator, police detective, amateur sleuth etc. I did find when I looked for names of detectives that often there was an article on wikipedia about the author not linked to this list and I think its useful to link them.

I'd suggest renaming this list List of female fictional detectives and add some description at the top of the list to say it can include characters in books, comics, graphic novels, television, movies, computer games and the characters should be the main character in the story, the story should be a crime fiction story (detective, mystery, noir), the person should do some detecting, and can be a private investigator, police detective, amateur detective, and that detective is defined pretty loosely.121.218.98.198 (talk) 03:01, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

This list is terribly incomplete[edit]

It looks as if it hasn't been worked on for quite some time, yet there are suggestions for additions given, that were never added. Why isn't its creator fleshing it out? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ed8r (talk • contribs) 17:33, 23 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Scott and Bailey[edit]

Starring Suranne Jones and Lesley Sharp are detectives within a police force. 86.144.25.248 (talk) 22:19, 30 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Needs updates, dates, consistent style, references[edit]

Terrific list of all my favorites, more to find, but lacks entries. Some TV series have been cancelled, so out of date. Some entries missing dates. I fixed some, but more questionable. So I added editing requests.

Format:

Would be easier to read overall if more consistent style applied to structure of entries: role, actor, description, purpose, network, series, date range or begun: Jane Marple (Joan Hickson, Geraldine McEwen, Julia McKenzie) elderly spinster from small English village of St. Mary's Mead investigates murders 1940s-1950s in BBC series Miss Marple and Agatha Christie's Marple 1984-present. (Chose complicated example on purpose, sure.) For book series: character, description, position, in series, by author, date range or begun, such as Flavia de Luce from 1950s English village, in series by Alan Bradley, was 11 when series began in 2009, or some variation thereof.

"Type of detective" section:

Maisie Dobbs, 30 in 1929, puts up her new sign "Psychologist and Investigator". Most entries investigate murders, some disappearances, few other problems. Even bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is involved in mostly murders, and has movie out now, "One for the Money". Dorothy Gilman's Emily Pollifax volunteers for the CIA, who doubt her motives in film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6jNUfoqRuU. She does fulfill the nosy-center-of-storm type. Some of the girls books are more adventurers than detectives. So I wonder about the section, and whether complete.

References:

Every entry could be followed by ISBN for first book of series, to confirm facts. Perhaps internal Wiki links are enough to verify dates for TV series, films, games?

AnEyeSpy (talk) 03:21, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

feel free to add ISBNs[edit]

Re suggestion above, it requires a lot of work, and I personally do not have time. But I think if anyone wanted to take that on as a task they shouldn't hesitated to add ISBN of first book in the series to the entries in the listThe woman in white (talk)

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Page style[edit]

The style of this page isn't especially reader-friendly. Compared to other lists of detectives, the list is just a large jumble of text, which does a disservice to the topic. While the brief descriptions of each character is useful information, the long lines, single spacing, use of bold text, etc just make it an unpleasant read.

Boblamont (talk) 00:44, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Madame Storey[edit]

How sad, one of the best and earliest female Detective is missing, Footners Madame Storey. Its like to forget Sherlock Holmes on a Male Detective List. Oh may... Matthias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulbert_Footner

http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/HulbertFootner/HulbertFootner.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:16B8:4626:5D00:81E6:ED9D:6046:7FD2 (talk) 17:28, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]