There were couple of messages about the first female PI. It's
not Honey West or any other fifties gal, since Theodore
Tinsley and Cleve F. Adams, pulpsters both, wrote in the
thirties about female detectives. Tinsley wrote about Carrie
Cushin and Adams about Violet Dade. Where these characters
appeared, I don't know. There was also a female masked
avenger called Domino Lady and there was even a magazine
devoted to her.
I mentioned earlier another fifties female PI. She's Seven
Anderton's Edna Pender, who has Steve Ware as her sidekick.
Pender has big breasts and tight clothes and she's very
skillful with a gun. She shoots in the knee and the ear
before she hits the place "where it really feels". The Pender
stories appeared in Famous Detective Stories from 1951 to
1954. Seven Anderton wrote for some other magazines,
too.
Juri
jurnum@utu.fi
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