A Lifetime of Mystery Novels

The fictional female detectives I grew up alongside

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I’ve read mystery novels my whole life. In fact, the very first chapter books I ever read as a budding young reader were mysteries.

One of the things that I loved about these books is that the protagonists they featured were female crime solvers fairly close in age to mine at that point in time.