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From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
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Subject: Re: Nancy Drew: Girl Role Model
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Date: 9 Apr 91 18:21:53 GMT
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   hrdoucet@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Heloise Doucet) writes:
   >So, if you could name ALL these mystery movies with aggressive female
   >sleuths and prove me wrong I will be willing to admit the mistakes in
   >my assumptions.

For movies, there are the Miss Marple movies (she is more aggressive
in the movies than in the books, too).  You might count the "Thin Man"
movies; the man characters Nick and Nora Charles - Nick is a detective
who doesn't want to detect and Nora is always pushing him to and
getting involved in things, although he's always the one who solves
the case.  Back to Agatha Christie, there are Tommy and
Tuppence...similar to Nick and Nora except that Tuppence figures out
more of the mystery.

Muffy