The book chronicles the history of real-life women detectives, who risked their lives to solve mysteries, catch miscreants, and unearth conspiracies to make both the home and the world a safer place. Beginning with Kate Warne (1833 -1868), the first female detective (who worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and saved President Lincoln from being assassinated), the book goes on narrating the tales of some of the sharpest female sleuths who could...