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Mary Helena Fortune (circa 1833 – circa 1910) was an Australian writer, under the pseudonyms Waif Wander and W.W. She was one of the earliest female detective writers in the world. One of the earliest women to write detective fiction, and probably the first to write from the viewpoint of the detective. ==Personal life== Mary Fortune was born around 1833 in Belfast, Ireland. She traveled with her father to Canada. In Melbourne, Canada, she married Joseph Fortune on 25 March 1851 and had one son. When her father left Canada for the Australian goldfields, she followed him, leaving her husband behind and travelling to Australia with her son. She arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, on 3 October 1855. In November 1856, she gave birth to a second son. In January 1858 her elder son died. On 25 October 1858, Mary married Percy Rollo Brett (possibly bigamously) at Dunolly, Victoria.〔 A prolific storyteller, in all she wrote over 500 detective stories over 40 years, most featuring Detective Mark Sinclair. During her lifetime, she was popular enough to have a racehorse and greyhound named after her. She died an alcoholic, the date and place still unknown – somehow fitting for this pioneering woman of mystery. Her death passed without public notice, in part because she wrote under pseudonyms. Her horror fiction story "The White Maniac: A Doctor's Tale" (included in James Doig's anthology ''Australian Ghost Stories'' (2010)) verges on being a tale of vampirism, but its theme is in fact anthropophagy. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Fortune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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