Check out this very cool post at Jess Nevins’ blog: an article in a Kansas newspaper from 1921 containing an interview with the female head of a detective agency. She scorns detective stories, but her explanations of why women make better detectives sound a lot like, say, Loveday Brooke, or Lady Molly of Scotland Yard.
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