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Working Title: Lil' Old Lady Investigates: From YKTTW

Daibhid C: I've pulled:

• Ghostwriter can be summarized as "Middle School Teens and a Friendly Ghost Investigate".

Because, yes it can, but that's not what the trope is. There probably should be a trope for "Kids Investigate"; it'd include Ghostwriter, Scooby Doo and Enid Blyton's Famous Five and Secret Seven, for a start.

Daibhid C: Never mind, I've just noticed we've got one...

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Silent Hunter: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency? She's not old and she's not exactly little ("traditional-sized African woman"), tough...

bluepenguin: In addition to being neither old nor little, she doesn't do murders, usually, which puts her pretty far from this trope as described. On the other hand, she has got the sort of "cozy domestic lady detective" thing going on...

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David Cassell: I have a problem with the opening paragraph here. Everything I've ever seen refers to this genre as the 'tea cozy' mystery, not the 'cozy mystery'. Can we fix this?