01928cam a2200349 i 4500 1110537922 TxAuBib 20240110120000.0 160304t20141864||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780712357593 paperback $12.95 0712357599 paperback $12.95 (OCoLC)944084897 TxAuBib rda Forrester, Andrew. The female detective [BOOK] / Andrew Forrester ; with a foreword by Alexander McCall Smith and an introduction by Mike Ashley. First edition. London : British Library, 2014. ©1864. xi, 316 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published in 1864. "'Miss Gladden', the first female detective, is a determined and resourceful figure, with ingenious skills of logic and deduction. Pursuing mysterious cases, she works undercover and only introduces herself as a detective when the need arises. Her personal circumstances and even her real name are never revealed. This obfuscation makes sense, considering that when The female detective was first published in 1864 there were no official female detectives in Britain--in fact, there were no women police officers either (and would not be for another 50 years). And the novel itself was well ahead of its time; further stories and novels featuring women detectives would not be widely published until the turn of the century". 20240110. Women detectives England Fiction. Criminal investigation Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. Detectives Fiction. Mystery fiction. McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-, foreword.