Amy,
Are you including female PIs? There are a few of those in
your period. James L. Rubel's No Business for a Lady
(1950):
"Meet Miss Donovan, the only private eye who wears mascara.
She's easily teh most beautiul shamus living" -- from the
cover of the 1958 reprint, possibly trying to piggyback on
the recently introduced Honey West in . . .
G.G. Fickling's This Girl for Hire (1957):
"Naked Eye Honey West -- sexiest private eye in L.A. or
anywhere else -- packs a deadly .32 and a lively 38-22-36 --
but she keeps losing her clothes" -- from a 1965 printing,
tied in to her appearance on the TV show Burke's Law (guess
it was before she got her own show)
Mark
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