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• Gabby St Clair is a forensic science dropout and operator of a crime-scene cleaning business, in a series commenced 2006 by Christy Barrit.
• Sweeney St George is an art historian specializing in funereal art, in a series by Sarah Stewart Taylor, debuted 2003.
• Lisbeth Salander is a computer hacker and private investigator in the Millennium Trilogy by Swedish journalist and novelist Stieg Larsson (debuted 2005); played by Noomi Rapace in the 2009 films The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest.
• Lily Sampson is a 1940s archaeologist in historical mysteries by Aileen G. Barron.
• Dylan Sanders is a private detective played by Drew Barrymore in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels and its 2003 sequel Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle.
• Kay Scarpetta is the Chief Medical Examiner for Virginia in a series of books by American crime novelist Patricia Cornwall (debuted 1990).
• Joby Sawyer is a smart as a whip young woman who runs a detective agency in Denver in the 1870s in a book series by Suzann Ledbetter, commenced 2003.
• Catherine Sayler is a San Franciscan ex-policewoman who runs a private detective agency specializing in corporate crime in a book series by Linda Grant debuted 1988.
• Goldy Schulz is a caterer and amateur detective in Colorado in a series of books by American mystery novelist Diane Mott Davidson (debuted 1992).
• Abby Sciuto, played by Pauley Perrette, is a forensic specialist working for the Naval Criminal Investigation Service in the CBS series NCIS, first broadcast 2003.
• Ann Scotland was a private investigator in The Affairs of Ann Scotland, a radio show produced in Hollywood which ran from October 1946-Jan 1947. Ann was played by Arlene Francis.
• Emma "Scribbs" Scribbins is a detective sergeant played by Lisa Faulkner on the 2004-2005 ITV series Murder in Suburbia.
• Dana Katherine Scully is an FBI agent played by Gillian Anderson on the 1993-2002 Fox series The X-Files and the 2008 film The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
• Emily D. Seeton, aka Miss Seeton or MissEss, is a retired art teacher who provides insights to the police in a humorous British cosy series begun 1968 by Heron Carvic and continued by two other authors.
• Claudia Seferius is a widow in ancient Rome who unravels mysteries in novels by Marilyn Todd.
• Queenie Sells is a young urban woman, stubborn, alcoholic and anti-heroic, who is hired to track down the truth about a death, in Louise Luna’s “Serious as a Heart Attack” (2004).
• Annie Seymour is a police reporter in New Haven in a series commenced 2005 by Karen E. Olson.
• Kate Shackleton is a WWI widow in a mill town in the north of England in a book series started 2009 by Frances Brody.
• Mary Shannon is a United States Marshal in Albuquerque, New Mexico played by Mary McCormack on the 2008-present USA series In Plain Sight.
• Wollie Shelley is a small business owner and greeting card designer who gets mixed up in FBI investigations and other mysteries in a ‘Dating’ themed series by Harely Jane Kozak, commenced 2004.
• Sherlock "Sheryl" Shellingford (シャーロック・シェリンフォード Shārokku Sherinfōdo) is a detective with the gift of telekinesis in the Milky Holmes Detective Agency – staffed by four girls – in the Tantei Opera Milky Holmes media franchise.
• Jun Shibata is a quirky and gifted police detective, played by Miki Nakatani, who deals with unsolved cases in the TV drama and film Keizoku.
• Rei Shimura is an antiques expert and amateur detective in a series of books by English-American novelist Sujata Massey (debuted 1997).
• Naoto Shirogane is a young detective in the 2008 role-playing video game Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4
• Marla Shore is the owner of a hair salon in Florida in a series commenced 2000 by Nancy J Cohen.
• Jemima Shore is an investigative reporter and amateur detective in a series of books by Irish novelist Antonia Fraser (debuted 1977); played by Maria Aitken in the 1978 ITV miniseries Quiet as a Nun, and by Patricia Hodge on the 1983 ITV series Jemima Shore Investigates.
• Kate Shugak is a former District Attorney in Anchorage, Alaska in a series of books by American novelist Dana Stabenow (debuted 1992).
• Jo Beth Sidden is a trainer of bloodhounds in a series of mystery novels set in southern USA by Virginia Lanier.
• Sara Sidle is a crime scene investigator played by Jorja Fox on the 2000-present CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
• Phoebe Siegal is a divorced ex-policewoman and private investigator in Billings, Montana in a book series started 1995 by Sandra West Prowell.
• Denney Silber is a student at the University of Michigan in the 1970s, in a 2011 book by Judge Debra H. Goldstein.
• Maud Silver is a retired governess turned amateur detective in a series of books by British crime novelist Patricia Wentworth (debuted 1928).
• Margot Simon is an investigative reporter in San Diego in a series started 1995 by Janice Steinberg.
• Barbara Simons is a former PR executive in Montreal in two books 1996 & 1997 by Carole Epstein.
• Georgia Skeehan is a fire marshall in a series by Suzanne Chazin, commenced 2001.
• Ema Skye is a detective in the 2007 visual novel video game Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.
• Lacey Smithsonian is a fashion reporter in Washington DC who ends up investigating mysteries in the “Crimes of Fashion” cozy series by Ellen Byerrum, debuted 2003.
• Ernesta Snoop and Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson were two elderly sisters, played by Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick, who solved mysteries in The Snoop Sisters, a five episode TV series aired 1972-1974 as part of the NBC Mystery Movie.
• Lupe Solano is a private investigator in Florida in books 1996 (“Bloody Waters”) to 2001 (“Bitter Sugar) by Cuban-born American Caroline Garcia-Aguilera.
• Anna Southwood is a detective in a series of books by Australian crime novelist Jean Bedford (debuted 1990).
• Samantha Spade is an FBI agent played by Poppy Montgomery on the 2002-2009 CBS series Without a Trace.
• Diana Spaulding is a late 19th century journalist in a book series debuted 2004 by Kathy Lynn Emerson.
• Isabel Spellman is a member of a family who run a private investigation agency in San Francisco in novels by Lisa Lutz (debuted 2007).
• Maddi Springer is a shoe designer in a fashion-themed mystery series debuted 2006 by Gemma Halliday.
• Sookie Stackhouse is a telepath with a vampire boyfriend in The Southern Vampire Mysteries by American mystery novelist Charlaine Harris; played by Anna Paquin on the 2008-present HBO series True Blood.
• Vera Stanhope is a police Detective Chief Inspector in a book series commenced 1999 by Ann Cleeves and in the ITV series Vera adapted from the books, first broadcast May 2011.
• Clarice Starling is an FBI agent in the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs and its 1999 sequel Hannibal, both by Thomas Harris; played by Jodie Foster in the 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs, and by Julianne Moore in the 2001 sequel Hannibal.
• Serena Stevens is a New York City detective played by Saffron Burrows on the USA series Law & Order: Criminal Intent from 2010 to the present.
• Roberta Steel is a detective inspector in a series of books by Scottish crime novelist Stuart MacBride (debuted 2005).
• Violet Strange is a debutante and amateur detective in a series of stories by American poet and novelist Anna Katherine Green (debuted 1878). In the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of the story "The Golden Slipper", she was played by Teresa Gallagher.
• Mary Sullivan was an NYPD officer in Policewoman, a radio drama airing 1946-1947 on ABC. She was played by Betty Garde.
• Seychelles Sullivan is a salvage tug boat captain operating out of Ft Lauderdale, Florida, in a book series by Christine Kling which began in 2002.
• Cassie Swann is an expert bridge player and amateur detective in a series of books by "Susan Moody" (debuted 1993).
• Nell Sweeney is a governess in Boston after the Civil War, in a series begun 2003 by P B Ryan.
• Hannah Swensen is the owner of The Cookie Jar who unfortunately, possess slay-dar (the ability to stumble across murder victims) in Lake Eden, Minnesota in the Joanne Fluke murder mysteries.
• Annie Szabo is a writer and the widow of a gypsy, debuted 2003 in a book series by Meredith Blevins.