Great Female Protagonists discussion

Please post your mystery recommendations here.

Great female sleuths have to include Patricia Wentworth's Maud Silver in 'The Clock Strikes Twelve' or "The Chinese Shawl' The first is the 'Grey Mask' but it is not my favorite. A proper teacher who solves other peoples problems.

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard by Baroness Orczy

V.I. Warshawski in 'Indemnity Only' or 'Deadlock' by Sara Peretsky

I always liked Agatha Christie's Tuppence Cowley in 'The Secret Adversary' but Miss Marple is Christie's most famous female sleuth.

Harriet Vane in 'Gaudy Night' by Dorothy Sayers This one deals with the social conflicts of educating women. Since Sayers lived through many of these conflicts in her time at Oxford the feel of place and time is excellent.

Catherine LeVendeur appears first in 'Death Comes As Epiphany' by Sharan Newman 12th century historic mystery.

Miss Pym in 'Miss Pym Disposes' by Josephine Tey

Mary Russel in 'The Beekeeper's Apprentice' by Laurie King

Aunt Dimity & Lori Shepherd in 'Aunt Dimity's Death' This is the epitome of a cosy murder. My favorite in the series is when Emma Porter sleuth with Aunt Dimity in 'Aunt Dimity and the Duke' by Nancy Atherton.

Jane Austen stars as a sleuth in 'Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor' by Stephanie Barron but I was less impressed by her as a sleuth in 'Pride and Prescience' by Carrie Bebris

There are so many women who practice the art of detection.
PD James has created Cordelia Grey a British woman who inherited an agency and became a PI in "An Unsuitable Job for a Woman".

Mary Roberts Rinehart has the homicide bureau's Hilda Adams in "Miss Pinkerton". She goes under cover as a private nurse to uncover the murderer. The fascinating thing about the author is what she accomplished for her own profession in writing these stories. Ms. Rinhart depicts nurses as true medical professionals not to be classed as simple minded attendants no better than a servant to sit and watch over the ill.
http://workingnurse.com/articles/Mary...

I second the nod to Tuppence in Agatha Christie's "Tommy and Tuppence" series. And Mary Russell!

Phryne Fisher in Kerry Greenwood's series. The first is Cocaine Blues: Phryne Fisher
Phryne is sooo fabulous! 1920s amateur sleuth in Australia; flapper girl with a big heart and much intelligence!

Also, I kind of view the Harry Potter books as mysteries and I think Hermione is a great seluth!