The Situated Sleuth: Anticipating Ecofeminism in the Trixie Belden Series

Abstract: First published in 1948, the Trixie Belden Series helped to establish the "girl sleuth" articulation of the detective story. The series paid uncommon attention to nature and the environment and, as it did so, offered an anticipatory ecofeminist challenge to the patriarchal ideology that underpins the detective novel formula.