Penelope Nightingale

Penelope Nightingale is a detective noir book series written by initially Richard Puck until his death in 2019 as his daughter, Naomi, continued writing Penelope Nightingale stories. The book series is published since August 16th, 1983.
==Plot==
The series follows an eccentric and somewhat strange young private investigator known as Penelope Nightingale as she travels the world, solving numerous mysteries and cases while encountering numerous faces that she encounters on multiple occasions, primarily those on the side of good.
==Traits and Appearance==
Penelope is a young woman in around her mid 20s with red hair in a ponytail, a fedora, sunglasses and usually wearing a jacket. She is quite a smug individual, sometimes being too cocky and egotistical during cases, calling herself the self-claimed best detective out there. Despite that, she is quite talkative and friendly, with her detective style actually involves getting moderately close to possible suspects to know them better than they know her. She is quite good at reading people, being capable of telling when people might be lying or stressed, claiming everyone does at least something when lying. She is also quite intelligent, having graduated from Harvard, primarily in criminal studies. However, she is not quite good at forensic activities, usually needing help with forensics, but is capable of finding hidden clues in crime scenes. She also trained in boxing for three years, often using her boxing skills whenever altercations get violent, however, she refuses to use a gun, claiming that only monsters use guns. Despite that, she has somewhat recognized several bullet types and somewhat shows no mercy to anyone who does crimes by using a gun. She has a moral compass as well, with several things being considered too far for her such as conning people who want closure, using guns and a few more.
==Books==
===Novels===
#/Poison and Wine/ (1983) - A rich billionaire known as Charles Beckett hosts a party of his closest friends and partners when suddenly he begins to choke and dies, with the revelation that the wine he drank was poisoned. As a result, Penelope Nightingale is called to the party as she begins to investigate, learning of how Charles Beckett wasn't that popular while digging to find who killed Beckett.
#/Speaking of the Dead/ (1984) - Penelope reunites with her old friend and ally, Claude Sinclair, who invites her to a seance of three sisters who want to see their deceased mother again. While having moral problems with pretending to be those poor girls' dead mother, Penelope is soon thrust into a mystery when the eldest of the three sisters suddenly died when the lights went out during the seance.
#Behind the Smile (1985) - Penelope has been invited to a fancy museum that was given the Mona Lisa as suddenly the Mona Lisa disappears and everyone in the museum is a suspect as she has to figure out who stole the Mona Lisa before it is too late, having to clash against a rival investigator, Brett Mulligan who wants to find the culprit before Penelope.
#/Copycat/ (1986) - Penelope is sent to investigate a murder where the words RACHE are over a young woman's dead body as Penelope learns she is dealing with her first serial killer whose call sign is recreating the deaths found in numerous detective books.
#/Lights, Camera, Action!/ (1987) - Penelope is invited to the filming of a movie adaption of the murder of Charles Beckett as it went from her being surprisingly critical of how the adaption is to a murder mystery when the director of the movie is found dead in the bathroom. Now Penelope has to investigate this murder, realizing that everyone involved in the movie is a suspect.
#/School's Out/ (1990) - Set five years in the past, Penelope Nightingale is attending criminal study classes in Harvard as suddenly one of her classmates is found dead and strung up in Penelope's room. Having no choice, Penelope has to solve this mystery and clear her name, knowing that no one else is willing to.
#TBD (1991) - TBD
===Short Stories===
#/The Cat Ate Your Tongue?/ (1985) - While on a vacation to a small village in England, Penelope learns of series of strange events are happening as the most paranoid citizens believe the cause is a black cat which has been roaming the streets. Penelope decides to investigate and begins to learn that it's not exactly a cat but something else using cats for something.
#/Til Death Does Us Part/ (1985) - Everyone in a massive wedding except for the bride, the head chef, the Groom's mother and the best man suddenly died due to poisoning as Penelope is called to investigate this sudden wedding wide murder, with all four survivors as a suspect.
#/In the Name of Love/ (1985) - A married woman, Moira Bishop, suspects that something is up with her husband whenever he arrives home late due to "work" as she hires Penelope to exactly figure out why her husband is heading home late.
#/Inescapable/ (1986) - Penelope and Claude watch a famed escape artist, the Great Harold, in his latest trick, as suddenly the Great Harold dies as Penelope soon learns that it wasn't an accident as she heads to figure out who'd kill an escape artist.
#/Love Is A Dangerous Game/ (1988) - A criminal couple have been hitting banks as a bank owner heads to Penelope with one simple mission, to figure out where this romantic couple will hit next and catch them in their tracks.
#/Who Framed Brett Mulligan?/ (1989) - The chief of LA's Fire Department was found dead in his room, and it seems the primary suspect is Brett Mulligan as Penelope has to reluctantly work with him to clear his name and figure out who is truly responsible for the murder.
#TBD (1989) - TBD
#TBD (1992) - TBD
==Supporting Cast==
*Victor Vernon - a somewhat alcoholic officer who is one of Penelope's closest allies as he often allows her to access crime scenes to solve mysteries, being somewhat wonderstruck at Penelope's detective skills.
* Claude Sinclair - a false psychic who is an old friend of Penelope who she owes a debt to after he helped her catch a thief as he often crosses paths with Penelope, sometimes with him helping her and sometimes with her helping him.
*Emilia Harada - a sarcastic and nerdy biracial police analyst who is Penelope's childhood friend as she often helps Penelope out on cases, being almost equally as smart as Penelope but in completely different skills, as she is one of Penelope's two contacts with the LAPD.
*Brett Mulligan - an egotistical and flamboyant detective who is Penelope's rival as he often investigates the same cases as her, usually butting heads with her although there also seems to be some romantic tension.
==Adaptions==
===Television===
===Film===
===Video Games===
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