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Daughter of a detective, Ethel King takes up her father's career in
order to avenge his death, as well as that of her fiance, both
brought down the same day by an assassin's bullet. King, like Miss
Boston and Therese Arnaud, is an extraordinary woman, well ahead of
her time. Although she practices a masculine profession, she is
seductive and charming, moves comfortably in high society, and
dresses elegantly. These characteristics hide her incisiveness,
daring, strength, and accuracy with a gun. She solves cases
involving murders, kidnappings, forgeries and extortions. She
brings the guilty to justice, earns a satisfactory living and leads
a comfortable life in Garden Street, Philadelphia. There were only
two women sleuths in French popular literature before the mid-20th
century. The first, Miss Boston, was created by Antonin Reschal and
appeared in 1908-1909. Jean Petithuguenin (1878-1939) wrote the
second, Ethel King, shortly thereafter (1911-1914). This professor
at the Faculty of Sciences was the official translator of the Nick
Carter series. Ethel King ran for more than 100 bi-weekly issues in
France, then was continued in Germany by other authors.
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