Todd & Georgine

A mystery series written by Lenore Glen Offord between 1943 and 1959, set around the San Francisco Bay Area, which begins when young widow Georgine Wyeth stumbles on a body during a WWII blackout in Skeleton Key. In that book, Georgine makes the acquaintance of Todd McKinnon, a pulp novelist with an interest in detection, and the two go on to sleuth their way through three more books.