The private eye genre features a private investigator, or PI, protagonist who is a citizen paid to investigate a crime (however, there are times in stories where private eyes work a case for free-for example, the PI feels compelled to solve a good friend’s murder). Actually, the first female private detective appeared in a story over a hundred years earlier.īefore we step back in time, let’s first define a private eye, AKA private investigator (PI) or private detective. Warshawski, both of whom hit the fiction scene in the early 1980s. WarshawskiĪsk people to name one of the first fictional female private eyes, and they might mention Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone or Sara Paretsky’s V.I. came to life.” ~ Author Sara Paretsky about her PI character V.I. “I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator, and that’s how V.I. © 2014 Colleen Collins, All Rights Reserved Enjoy! Female Private Eyes in Fiction: From Lady Detectives to Hard-Boiled Dames This kind of article is "my thing." Besides being a female PI, I've written female private detectives in novels and three nonfiction books on private investigations, as well as judged novels and short stories for the Private Eye Writers of America.īelow is an excerpt with a link to the full article.
Parker Pyne in Agatha Christie's set of short stories Parker Pyne Investigates (1934). A few months back, the editor of the online magazine Festivale asked if I'd like to write an article about female private investigators in fiction, going back to such early women detectives as Miss Felicity Lemon, the efficient secretary for Mr.
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