Friday the Thirteenth comes on a Monday this month.

[truepenny]

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?

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[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Stoner McTavish.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

Cherry Ames, student nurse!

[copperwise.livejournal.com]

Nan and Flossie, the female halves of The Bobbsey Twins.

[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.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Harriet thinks of herself as a Girl Detective at one point in Have His Carcase.

[beadslut.livejournal.com]

Judy Bolton?

[larryhammer]

That was my suggestion. (Darn it.)

---L.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I remembered her, but couldn't think of her surname.

[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.

[elynross.livejournal.com]

Pam, Holly, and Sue were part of the Happy Hollisters...

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

No, I don't know what I did with myself before The Sims, either.

[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

[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::

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

Louise and Jean. I would *never* have remembered this on my own.

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

[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.

[larryhammer]

a girl version of Biggles

!!

---L.