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Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she's just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she's just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In Miss Scarlet and The Duke Season 4, Eliza has taken over the business of Nash & Sons (not that he has any sons) and things are not going entirely smoothly, although help comes from some familiar sources. Outside of work, her relationship with William 'The Duke' Wellington builds towards a looming decision that will shape both their lives.
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Description
Set in 1920s Toronto, the series follows the city's only female private detectives as they take on cases the police don't want to touch. In a time of change and hopefulness, their gender is their biggest advantage as they defy expectations and rebel against convention. The Private Detectives take on cases that explore every cross-section of Toronto, from gospel church choirs, bathing beauties and the early cinema scene, to the homes and private parties...
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars as headstrong Eliza Scarlet, the first-ever female detective in Victorian London, who won’t let naysayers stop her from keeping her father’s business running. She consistently spars (and sparks) with her handsome childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington (Stuart Martin), a.k.a., The Duke. The series delivers on the kind of historical...
28) So undercover
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Molly, a tough-as-nails, street-smart private investigator, is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in a college sorority and protect the daughter of a key witness in a mob case.
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Season Four opens with our intrepid detectives Frankie Drake and Trudy Clarke and their best gal pals, Mary Shaw and Flo Chakowitz, traipsing through the woods on a scavenger hunt that quickly turns deadly. From the wilderness to the world of high society, from an underground cabaret to a candy factory, Frankie and Trudy investigate murders, kidnappings, heists and poisonings. Using her position as a morality officer, Mary is able to snoop through...
Series
Ms. Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries volume Series 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In this spin-off to the wildly popular Australian mystery series, Peregrine Fisher (Geraldine Hakewill, Wanted) inherits her aunt Phryne’s estate after she goes missing on a case. As the plucky Peregrine steps into her aunt’s fabulous lifestyle in 1960s Melbourne, she also decides to follow in Phryne’s footsteps as a lady detective for a new era.
Relying on her street smarts and sheer nerve, Peregrine takes on the crime and corruption that...
31) Veronica Mars
Pub. Date
2014
Description
On the eve of graduating law school, Veronica Mars has put Neptune and her amateur sleuthing days behind her. While interviewing at high-end New York law firms, Veronica Mars gets a call from her ex-boyfriend Logan who has been accused of murder. Veronica heads back to Neptune just to help Logan find an attorney, but when things don't seem right with how Logan's case is perceived and handled, Veronica finds herself being pulled back into a life she...
Series
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920's Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl-handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Eliza Scarlet joins forces with a Scotland Yard inspector to solve crime in nineteenth century London.
"Set in the same 1850s [that is, 1880s] London society that gave rise to Jack the Ripper, this British detective drama features a fearless, independent heroine ... With her inquisitive mind, Miss Eliza Scarlet has always been more interested in running her late father's detective agency than behaving like a proper lady, much to the chagrin of family...
Pub. Date
c2004, p1996
Description
Hetty is a 60-year-old housewife, a late bloomer, who sets up shop as a private eye to supplement her husband's meager pension. With moral authority, salt-of-the-earth candor, and a fully-loaded handbag, Hetty dispenses hard-boiled justice and motherly empathy in equally satisfying doses. Geoffrey, a destitute teenager, becomes Hetty's trusted and able sidekick. Her husband, Robert, also lends a hand.
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