Andrew Forrester is the pseudonym of James Redding Ware (1832-c.1909). During his early career he wrote a number of detective stories, including Secret Service, or, Recollections of a City Detective and Revelations of the Private Detective.
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“Literary ancestor to Miss Marple, Lisbeth Salander, and Nancy Drew.”—The Guardian (London) First published in 1864, decades before there were official female detectives or female police officers in Britain, The Female Detective features the orig... SEE MORE