The lady investigates on BBC Radio 4 Extra.

Anna Katharine Green,
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Early female detectives are featured this week on BBC Radio 4 Extra: Loveday Brooke in "The Redhill Sisterhood" by Catherine Louisa Pirkis, Anna Katharine Green's 1915 New York society detective Violet Strange in "The Golden Slipper," and Valeria Woodville in Wilkie Collins's "The Law and the Lady." Episodes can usually be heard online for up to week after broadcast.

Early female detectives this week on BBC Radio 7.

Some early female detectives are featured this week on BBC Radio 7: American author Anna Katharine Green's socialite Violet Strange in "The Golden Slipper" (1915) and British writer Catherine Louisa Pirkis's Loveday Brooke in "The Redhill Sisterhood" (1893). Go here for the schedule or to listen.

About the photo: Anna Katharine Green, taken bet. 1870 and 1890. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.