Fox Red: The Adventures of Grace Culver, Private Investigator

The Fast-Acting, Quick Thinking 1930s Woman Private Eye Is Back! A generation or two ago, strong female private detectives were few and far between. Grace Culver of the Noonan Detective Agency is one of those few, and this red-headed investigative dynamo was (literarily) ahead of her time. Grace doesn't cower in the corner, waiting for some he-man to rescue her. She takes charge when she is on a case. Smart, cute, and full of fire, Grace Culver was a ground-breaking heroine who paved the way for today's female private eyes, such as Kinsey Millhone. The six stories in this collection are among the best of the Grace Culver adventures--but there are those who say that the best is yet to come. Roswell Brown was a pseudonym of Jean Francis Webb (1910-1991), a prolific author of mysteries, romances, gothics, novelizations, and non-fiction, including "This Coffin Taken?," "Somewhere Within This House," "Carnavaron's Castle," "The Craigshaw Curse," "The Empty Attic," "Roses from a Haunted Garden," and "No Match for Murder," and novelizations of the movie versions of "Anna Lucasta," "King Solomon's Mines," and "Little Women."