Kelly Link's The Girl Detective, available to read free online, is a superb (and quite creepy) take on our favourite heroine. I highly recommend you check out the whole piece. For now, here is a short extract to provide a little inspiration to wannabe girl detectives:
Why we love the girl detective.
We love the girl detective because she reminds
us of the children we wish we had. She is courteous, but also brave. She
loathes injustice; she is passionate, but also well-groomed. She keeps her room
neat, but not too neat. She feeds her goldfish. She will get good grades, keep
her curfew when it doesn't interfere with fighting crime. She'll come home from
an Ivy League college on weekends to do her laundry.
She reminds us of the girl we hope to marry one day.
If we ask her, she will take care of us, cook us nutritious meals, find our car
keys when we've misplaced them. The girl detective is good at finding things.
Check out Kelly's website here.
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