Also in that year, the Department entered into an agreement to increase the number of female detectives.

This paved the way to full integration of female detectives.

The character is notable as being one of the first female private detectives in popular fiction.

On every cop television show, at least one of the leading characters was a female detective.

Sometimes, you had two or three female detectives in the same squadroom.

The female detective sat back and glanced round the bar to see if anyone was taking any notice of them.

In 1990, she moved with the times, following other women who had begun series centered on female private detectives.

"Do you have a female detective on the way?"

There was another important distinction between male and female detectives.

Obviously, she came from a long line of female detectives.