is an elderly widow who volunteers for the CIA and has to solve mysteries to get out of trouble in series by Dorothy Gilman begun 1966. Played by Rosalind Russell in Mrs Pollifax - Spy 1971; by Angela Lansbury in The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax 1999. Eugenia Potter in recipe-based three books by Nancy Pickard 1992–2001. Beatrix Potter, the children's author, is a solver of mysteries in a series by Susan Wittig Albert. Eleanor 'Nell' Pratt is an amateur sleuth in a cozy series set in the world of museums by Sheila Connolly begun 2010. Amy Prentiss was a young female Chief of Detectives in the San Francisco Police Department, in a short-lived TV series of the same name, screened 1974-75 as part of NBC Mystery Movie. Emily Prentiss dark haired and down to earth profiler in Criminal Minds Josie Prescott is an antiques appraiser in a series by Jane Cleland begun 2000. Sandra Pullman, played by Amanda Redman, is a Detective Superintendent in charge of UCOS (Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad) in BBC New Tricks begun 2005. Lucy Pym is a popular psychologist who puzzles out a crime in a physical training college for girls in Lucy Pym Disposes 1946 by Josephine Tey, more famous for her series on Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. Miss Fisher,an Australian detective set in the series 'Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries' set in the 1949 Melbourne. Q Faye Quick is a 1943 Manhattan secretary who takes over a detective agency when her boss is drafted, in This Dame for Hire by Sandra Scoppettone, published 2005. Sarah and Meg Quilliam are sisters, owner and chef of an Inn in Hemlock Falls in a cozy series by Claudia Bishop begun 1993. Nina Quinn is a landscaper in a series by Heather Webber (author) begun 2004. Imogen Quy is a nurse at St Agatha's College, Oxford in a series by Jill Paton Walsh. R Agatha Raisin is an impatient and nosy retired London PR agent who starts her own detective agency in Carsley, Cotswald, an English village. The book series begun 1992 by English author MC Beaton (Marion Chesney), also the author of Hamish Macbeth series. Agatha is played by Penelope Keith in some BBC radio adaptations and Ashley Jensen in the television adaptation for Sky1. Gwen Ramadge is a private investigator in books by Lillian O'Donnell. Precious Ramotswe is a Batswana private detective in The No.