Drawing from traditions of the teen girl sleuth, the detective of film noir, and contemporary novels of the empowered female detective, the television series Veronica Mars uses rape as a central theme to create a new kind of girl detective—a cynical, wisecracking adolescent heroine. This article originally appeared in Clues: A Journal of Detection, Volume 27, Issue 1.

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Alaine Martaus is a library media specialist at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts in Hot Springs.

Alaine Martaus
Format: E-Single
Pages: 13
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Copyright Date: 2009
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2481-5

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