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* [[Monica Rambeau]] (Marvel universe), a harbor patrol investigator before she gained superpowers | * [[Monica Rambeau]] (Marvel universe), a harbor patrol investigator before she gained superpowers | ||
* [[Dana Scully]] in [[The X-Files]] (FBI) | * [[Dana Scully]] in [[The X-Files]] (FBI) | ||
* [[Lily Yu]] in [[Eileen Wilks]]' [[Lupi series]] (cop; then FBI) | |||
==Classic non-SF "girl sleuths"== | ==Classic non-SF "girl sleuths"== | ||
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By Author
- Keith Hartman. The Gumshoe, The Witch, and the Virtual Corpse (1999)
- Melissa Scott. Several of her novels
By Character Name
- Catherine Chandler in TV series Beauty and the Beast (lawyer and investigator with DA's office)
- Olivia Dunham, FBI investigator in Fringe
- Lola Galley, an officer (sometimes cop, sometimes social worker/lawyer kinda person) in the dept. for regulating lycanthropic activity (DORLA?) in Bareback by Kit Whitfield
- Audrey Hanson, an FBI agent in "Heroes" (played by Clea DuVall)
- Emma Hollis in Millennium (TV series) (FBI)
- Doré Konstantin from Dervish Is Digital by Pat Cadigan
- Brawne Lamia from "The Detective's Tale: The Long Good-Bye" in Dan Simmons' Hyperion
- Kate Lockley from Angel
- Lara Means in Millennium (TV series) (Millennium Group investigator)
- The "Ty Merrick" series by Denise Vitola
- Vicki Nelson from Tanya Huff's Blood novels, and the TV series adapted from them.
- Sara Pezzini, homicide detective - from Witchblade (comics & TV series)
- Monica Rambeau (Marvel universe), a harbor patrol investigator before she gained superpowers
- Dana Scully in The X-Files (FBI)
- Lily Yu in Eileen Wilks' Lupi series (cop; then FBI)
Classic non-SF "girl sleuths"
- Nancy Drew
- Honey West
- Nancy Clueless parody series by Mabel Maney (some supernatural elements)
- Veronica Mars in eponymous TV series (but not SF)
References and further reading
- The Lady Investigates: Women Detectives and Spies in Fiction by Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan. ISBN 0-19-281938-0. (1981)