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• 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 2009-2010.
• 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 series of books by American crime novelist Sara Paretsky; played by Kathleen Turner in the 1991 film V.I.Warshawski.
• Stella Warwick is a young widow who travels to New Guinea to learn more about her husband's death, in the 1952 Edgar Award winning novel Beat Not the Bones by Charlotte Jay.
• Amelia Watson is the second wife of Dr. Watson, and an amateur sleuth, in two novels and many short stories by Michael Mallory (debuted 1995).
• Bailey Weggins is a true crime writer for magazines in a book series debuted 2004, by magazine editor Kate White.
• Helen West is a driven prosecutor with a keen sense of justice in a book series 1988-1996 by Frances Fyfield, twice adapted for television, with Helen played firstly by Juliet Stevenson and then by Amanda Burton.
• Honey West is a private detective in a series of eleven books by "G. G. Fickling" (debuted 1957); played by Anne Francis on the 1965-1966 ABC series Honey West.
• Megan Wheeler is a New York City detective played by Julianne Nicholson on the NBC/USA series Law & Order: Criminal Intent from 2006 to 2009.
• Blanche White is a domestic worker who investigates mysteries in a series commenced 1992 by Barbara Neely.
• Jane Whitefield is a detective in a series of books by American mystery novelist Thomas Perry (debuted 1995).
• Eve Whitfield is a detective (played by Barbara Anderson) on "Ironside" (1967–71)
• Hanne Wilhemsen is a wheelchair-bound retired police inspector in a book series debuted 1993 by Norwegian Anne Holt.
• Lila Wilkins is a former reporter, employed by literary agency, in Buried in a Book (2012), the first book in a proposed series by Lucy Arlington.
• Catherine Willows is a crime scene investigator played by Marg Helgenberger on the 2000-present CBS series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
• Audrey Wilson is a financial planner called upon to help clients in trouble in a series commenced 2001 by C.M. Miller.
• Sophie Winston is an amateur sleuth in the 'domestic diva' cozy series commenced 2008 by Krista Davis.
• Rosie Winter is an aspiring actress during WWII in New York in a book series started 2007 by Kathryn Miller Haines.
• Hildegarde Withers is a school teacher and amateur investigator in a series of books by American mystery novelist Stuart Palmer (debuted 1931). Played by Edna May Oliver in the films Penguin Pool Murder (1932), Murder on the Blackboard (1934), and Murder on a Honeymoon (1935); by Helen Broderick in Murder on a Bridle Path (1936); by ZaSu Pitts in The Plot Thickens (1936) and Forty Naughty Girls (1937); and by Eve Arden in A Very Missing Person (1972).
• Hannah Wolfe is a private investigator in a trilogy of novels – Birth Marks, Fatlands, and Under My Skin – by English novelist Sarah Dunant (debuted 1991).
• Mary Wollstonecroft, the 18th century feminist author, detects while working as a governess in Ireland in a book series by Nancy Means Wright, commenced 2010.
• Shelby Woo is the title teen detective on The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo which screened 1996-1998 on Nickleodeon.