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* Hetty Wainthropp (Creator/PatriciaRoutledge) in ''Series/HettyWainthroppInvestigates'' is one of the more realistic takes on the trope, because she's a registered PI that by and large solves minor crimes and misdemeanors that the police can't be bothered with. She downright refuses to take murder cases.
** Sometimes she is hired to investigate larger crimes with a clear bias, such as when a young girl keeps turning up at the scenes of arsons and her mother hires Hetty to find another suspect.
** Sometimes she is hired to investigate larger crimes with a clear bias, such as when a young girl keeps turning up at the scenes of arsons and her mother hires Hetty to find another suspect.
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* Hetty Wainthropp (Creator/PatriciaRoutledge) in ''Series/HettyWainthroppInvestigates'' is one of the more realistic takes on the trope, because she's a registered PI that by and large solves minor crimes and misdemeanors that the police can't be bothered with. She downright refuses to take murder cases.
**cases. Sometimes she is hired to investigate larger crimes with a clear bias, such as when a young girl keeps turning up at the scenes of arsons and her mother hires Hetty to find another suspect.
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* ''The Snoop Sisters'', starring Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as Ernesta and Gwendolyn Snoop. (With that surname, [[PropheticNames it was inevitable]]...)
** Hayes and Natwick, along with Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney, had earlier played this character type in a made-for-TV movie, ''Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate''.
** Hayes and Natwick, along with Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney, had earlier played this character type in a made-for-TV movie, ''Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate''.
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* ''The Snoop Sisters'', starring Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick as Ernesta and Gwendolyn Snoop. (With that surname, [[PropheticNames it was inevitable]]...)
**) Hayes and Natwick, along with Myrna Loy and Sylvia Sidney, had earlier played this character type in a made-for-TV movie, ''Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate''.
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There's a subgenre of MysteryFiction called "[[CozyMystery Cozy Mysteries]]", a prevalent trope of which is the little old lady investigator. She is an older lady, usually retired, usually a CoolOldLady, who has a knack for solving mysteries and who is [[AlwaysMurder always solving murders]] [[BusmansHoliday wherever she goes.]] She's usually an AmateurSleuth, but occasionally she works for an agency or is a registered [[PrivateDetective PI]]. The fact that people seem to keep dropping dead around her often makes her a MysteryMagnet. This sub-genre is also known as the "tea cozy mystery".
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There's a subgenre SubGenre of MysteryFiction called "[[CozyMystery Cozy Mysteries]]", a prevalent trope of which is the little old lady investigator. She is an older lady, usually retired, usually a CoolOldLady, who has a knack for solving mysteries and who is [[AlwaysMurder always solving murders]] [[BusmansHoliday wherever she goes.]] She's usually an AmateurSleuth, but occasionally she works for an agency or is a registered [[PrivateDetective PI]]. The fact that people seem to keep dropping dead around her often makes her a MysteryMagnet. This sub-genre is also known as the "tea cozy mystery".
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* The ''Literature/HerMajestyTheQueenInvestigates'' series has Queen Elizabeth II secretly solving crimes while carrying out her royal duties.
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* Dave Stone parodied this trope in his 1997 Franchise/BerniceSummerfield novel ''Ship of Fools'' with the character of Agatha Magpole. The [[MysteryMagnet inexplicably high rate]] of murders that occur when this little old lady is around turn out to be caused by [[spoiler:her extremely powerful, yet subconscious, psychic abilities, which drive people to homicide]].
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* Dave Stone parodied this trope in his 1997 Franchise/BerniceSummerfield Literature/BerniceSummerfield novel ''Ship of Fools'' with the character of Agatha Magpole. The [[MysteryMagnet inexplicably high rate]] of murders that occur when this little old lady is around turn out to be caused by [[spoiler:her extremely powerful, yet subconscious, psychic abilities, which drive people to homicide]].
