published 1995-2005 by deceased novelist Barbara Seranella (1956–2007). Jane Marple is an elderly amateur investigator in a dozen books by English crime novelist Agatha Christie (debuted 1930). Played by Margaret Rutherford in Murder, She Said (1961), Murder at the Gallop (1963), Murder Most Foul (1964), and Murder Ahoy! (1964); by Angela Lansbury in The Mirror Crack'd (1980); by Ita Ever in A Pocket Full of Rye (1983); and by Helen Hayes in A Caribbean Mystery (1983) and Murder with Mirrors (1984). Played by Joan Hickson on the 1984–1992 BBC One series Miss Marple. Veronica Mars is a teenage amateur detective played by Kristen Bell on the 2004-2007 UPN/CW series Veronica Mars. Cat Marsala is a freelance investigative reporter in Chicago in a series by Barbara D'Amato commenced 1990. Lizzy Martin is a doctor's daughter in Victorian England who becomes a lady's companion after her father dies with large debts. She investigates crimes with the help of policeman Ben Ross, in a series commenced 2006 by Ann Granger. Rina Martin is a former actress, who played a PI on television, in a series by Jane Adams, debuted 2007. Saz Martin is a private investigator who starts her business with government funding for the unemployed, in a series started 1994 by Stella Duffy. Kate Martinelli is a police officer in San Francisco, California in a series of books by American crime novelist Laurie R King (debuted 1993). Jo Martinez is a NYPD homicide detective on the 2014-2015 US TV show Forever. Rebecka Martinsson is a lawyer in Sweden in this series of psychological thrillers by Asa Larsson. Books in the series are: Sun Storm (also published as The Savage Altar), The Blood Spilt, The Black Path, Until Thy Wrath Be Past and The Second Deadly Sin. Sister Mary Helen is an elderly crime solving nun in San Francisco, debuted 1984 in a series by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie (1933–2009), a nun in the order of St Joseph of Carondelet. Daphne Matthews is a forensic psychologist in a series of books by American suspense novelist Ridley Pearson (debuted 1988). Cassie Mayweather is a homicide detective played by Sandra Bullock in 2002 film Murder by Numbers. Patricia "Paddy" Meehan is Glaswegian journalist and investigator in a series of books by Scottish crime novelist Denise Mina (debuted 2005). Carlotta Milburn is a Long Island socialite who, with her husband Tony, must solve a mystery which