cosy series begun 2010 by Janet Evanovich. Frances "Frankie" Tully is a detective played by Vanessa Gray on the 2008 Nine Network series The Strip. V Claudia Valentine is a Sydney PI in a series by Australian Marele Day begun 1988. Mary Vance (Joan Blondell) inherits her uncle's detective agency and works with a police detective (Dick Powell). in Miss Pinkerton, Inc. a radio program from 1941. Harriet Vane, later Lady Peter Wimsey, is first a suspect then wife of Lord Peter Wimsey in short stories and four books by Dorothy Sayers 1998-2010 (by Jill Paton Walsh based on an uncompleted manuscript by Sayers); played by Constance Cummings in Busman's Honeymoon 1941 (Haunted Honeymoon in U.S.) and by Harriet Walter in BBC adaptations begun 1997. Tessa Vance is a young female homicide detective in two books by Australian Jennifer Rowe; played by Lucy Bell in Australian TV series Murder Call 1997–2000. Emma Victor is a lesbian San Francisco PI in series by Mary Wings, begun 1986. Johanna Vik is a former FBI profiler returned home to Norway, working with Adam Stubo in a series by Norwegian Anne Holt begun 2006. Ineke Valence is a tough-talking prohibition era vigilante for hire in the forthcoming The Angel Series by Max Davine which began in 2013. W Hilda Wade is a nurse who solves crimes with a medical theme in stories by Grant Allen (early 20th century). Hetty Wainthropp is a retiree and amateur investigator played by Patricia Routledge on the 1996-1998 BBC One series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. Renee Walker is an FBI agent played by Annie Wersching on the Fox series 24 from 2009 to 2010. Linda Wallander, daughter of Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander, just beginning her own police career, has center stage in Before the Frost (2004), translated from Swedish Innan frosten (2002). Also taking part are Kurt Wallander himself and Stefan Lindman (from Mankell's The Return of the Dancing Master). Rachel Walling is an FBI agent in five books – The Poet, The Narrows, Echo Park, The Overlook, and The Scarecrow – by American crime novelist Michael Connelly (debuted 1996). Penny Wanawake is a model and amateur investigator in a series of books by British crime novelist "Susan Moody" (debuted 1984). D D Warren is a police detective in Boston is a series debuted 2005 by Lisa Gardner. Victoria Iphigenia "Vic" Warshawski is a private investigator in Chicago in a