Belle Levy Content type Biography Blog Encyclopedia Article Lesson Plan Oral History Podcast Collection We Remember This Week in History The Feminist Revolution Women Rabbis Women of Valor Power Couples Soviet Jewry Baltimore DC Katrina Seattle Western Pioneers Belle Levy Belle Levy was one of the first private investigators licensed by New York State. Her Colonial Detective Service hunted down missing relatives, cheating spouses, and other miscreants beginning in the 1920s.