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And I've fallen off the face of the world due to a late-blooming The Sims addiction.

Work is still happening, but more of my brain than ought to be is concerned with the burgeoning friendship between Napoleon Solo and Charlotte Brontë.

I also want to move in a houseful of Girl Detectives. I've got Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden. Any others y'all can think of?

Date: 2004-09-13 07:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] yonmei.livejournal.com
Stoner McTavish.

Date: 2004-09-13 07:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elynross.livejournal.com
Cherry Ames, student nurse!

Date: 2004-09-13 08:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
Thank you! I remembered her, but couldn't think of her surname.

Date: 2004-09-13 08:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elynross.livejournal.com
Poking about, I also found a series with a character named Beverly Gray, although I didn't read those. And Vicki Barr, Judy Bolton... I don't know if these were all girl detectives, but here's a site (http://www.geocities.com/seriesgallery/) that has a pulldown menu for a large number of girls' series of books.

Date: 2004-09-13 07:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] copperwise.livejournal.com
Nan and Flossie, the female halves of The Bobbsey Twins.

Date: 2004-09-13 08:12 am (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
That was my suggestion. (Darn it.)

---L.

Date: 2004-09-13 08:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elynross.livejournal.com
Pam, Holly, and Sue were part of the Happy Hollisters...

Date: 2004-09-13 07:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] malinaldarose.livejournal.com
Donna Parker? I don't remember whether she was actually a detective or not, but she was from the same era as Trixie Belden.

Date: 2004-09-13 07:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] papersky.livejournal.com
Harriet thinks of herself as a Girl Detective at one point in Have His Carcase.

Date: 2004-09-13 07:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beadslut.livejournal.com
Judy Bolton?

Date: 2004-09-13 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lisekit.livejournal.com
No, I don't know what I did with myself before The Sims, either.

Date: 2004-09-13 11:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] pameladean
Sue Barton! She was a nurse too, but the books were a lot less formulaic than the later Cherry Ameses.

Judy Bolton is good too, though I never did understand why she only married a more formal kind of detective rather than becoming one.

I also have a soft spot for the Dana Girls -- they were sisters, but again, less sticky-icky formulaic than the Bobbsey Twins.

Pamela

Date: 2004-09-13 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] truepenny.livejournal.com
The Dana Girls!

Can you remember their given names? I could remember that they were sisters, and I could remember that the name Dana was attached to them somehow (although I couldn't remember whether it was their surname or that of their creator), and I remember that I liked them, but the rest is lost in the mists of time. Hélas
::strikes a pose like a Gorey heroine::

Date: 2004-09-13 12:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tekalynn.livejournal.com
Louise and Jean. I would *never* have remembered this on my own.

http://users.arczip.com/fwdixon/NancyDrew/dana.htm

Date: 2004-09-13 06:11 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vass
Barbara Gordon!

And I don't remember her name, but my father tells me that W.E. Johns wrote a girl version of Biggles, and I've been looking for her ever since.

Date: 2004-09-14 08:26 am (UTC)
larryhammer: floral print origami penguin, facing left (Default)
From: [personal profile] larryhammer
a girl version of Biggles

!!

---L.

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