Ruth the Betrayer
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Ruth the Betrayer
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Ruth the Betrayer; or, The Female Spy, by Edward Ellis was the first fictional female detective story. It was published as a penny dreadful in 52 parts in 1862-63 by John Dicks, and the British Library's single-volume compilation copy was acquired on 28 February 1863. It therefore predates Andrew Forrester's The Female Detective and W.S. Hayward's The Revelations of a Lady Detective, both of 1863/4. Ruth Trail, the protagonist, is "a female detective – a sort of spy we use in the hanky-panky way
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1862–1863 female detective story by Edward Ellis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_the_Betrayer
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2023-06-28T18:11:03Z
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