Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.
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