Re: Women in Pulp adventures?
Take a look at http://www.blackmask.com . In their Pulp Fiction section, you'll find Grace Culver (a "pioneering woman detective"), Pat Savage (Doc's cousin), Nellie Gray (from the original Justice, Inc.!), Nita van Sloan (The Spider's girlfriend), and many others.
Or http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes.html (Tough Guys and Private Eyes) Not all of those listed are appropriate, but some are.
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/trivia/triv138.html Female detectives
And from another point of view.... Amelia Peabody Emerson (from Elizabeth Peters' series. The later books are set after WWI, but she's pretty Pulp-ish in even the early ones.)