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• Lena Padgett is a private investigator specializing in protecting women and children in a book series by Lynn S Hightower, commenced 1992 with “Satan’s Lambs”.
• Mrs. Pargeter is a widow with a shadowy past who solves uncanny mysteries in a series of books by English crime novelist Simon Brett (debuted 1986).
• Callie (short for Calamine Lotion) Parish is a mortuary cosmetologist in the south of the United States who finds herself embroiled in mysteries in books by Fran Rizer, commenced 2007.
• Audrey Parker is an FBI agent played by Emily Rose on the 2010 Syfy series Haven.
• Penny Parker is a high school detective in a series 1939 -1947 by Mildred A. Wirt Benson who also authored some of the Nancy Drew mysteries.
• Dorothy Parker, the wit, detects in a series commenced 2011 by J J Murphy.
• Mrs Paschal is the protagonist in W. Stephen Hayward’s “The Experiences of a Lady Detective” (1864).
• Amelia Peabody is a sleuth in a series of books by American crime novelist "Elizabeth Peters" (debuted 1975).
• Delia Peabody is a New York City police officer in the 21st century in the ...in Death series of books by American novelist "J. D. Robb" (debuted 1995).
• Sister Pelagia is a Russian Orthodox nun and teacher in a girls' school in provincial Russia in the 1890s in three novels by Boris Akunin.
• Professor Karen Pelletier is an amateur sleuth in a college setting in a series by Joanne Dobson commenced 1997.
• Amanda Pepper is a 30–ish school teacher in Philadelphia who finds herself mixed up in murders in novels by Gillian Roberts, debuted 1987 with “Caught Dead in Philadelphia”.
• Cassandra Perry is a young black college student in Chicago in the late 1960s who detects with her great aunt and uncle, Ivy and Woody Lisle, in a book series started 2003 by Charlotte Carter who also writes the Nanette Hayes series.
• Loraine Pettybone is a bored middle-aged postal worker who propels herself into local mysteries in the Miss Pettybone Southern Series, debuted 2011 by Melissa Rees.
• Lucinda Pierce is a homicide detective in Virginia in a book series debuted 2008 by Diane Fanning who is also a true-crime writer..
• Anna Pigeon is a park ranger and detective in a series of books by American crime novelist Nevada Barr (debuted 1993).
• Melinda Pink is a magistrate and climber in a series of books by British climber and crime novelist Gwen Moffat (debuted 1973).
• Eliza Pirex is a lesbian private investigator in "All the Muscle You Need" (1988) by Diana McRea.
• Stephanie Plum is a New Jersey bounty hunter in a series of novels by American crime novelist Janet Evanovich (debuted 1994).
• 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, debuted 2010, by Sheila Connelly.
• Amy Prentiss was a young female Chief of Detectives in the San Francisco Police Department, in a short lived television series of the same name, screened 1974-75 as part of NBC Mystery Movie.
• Josie Prescott is an antiques appraiser in a series by Jane Cleland commenced 2000.
• Roxanne Prescott is a policewoman from Texas debuted 2000 in books by Taffy Cannon.
• Sarah Pribek is a missing persons investigator in two suspenseful novels by Jodi Compton: The 37th Hour (2003) and Sympathy Between Humans (2005). Compton has also written two more recent novels with lead character Hailey Cain, a West-point dropout.
• Sandra Pullman is a Detective Superintendent in charge of a special open and unsolved squad in BBC television series New Tricks first broadcast 2005. She is played by Amanda Redman.
• Lucy Pym is a popular psychologist who puzzles out a crime in a physical training college for girls in a 1948 novel by Josephine Tey.