These three are the real-life Miss Marples of the Capital. They are swift, smart and know how to get their work done. For two of these detectives, becoming a private investigator was not on their mind from the very beginning. Bhavna Paliwal, for instance, worked in a newspaper and chanced upon the life of a detective quite suddenly. Taralika Lahiri, too, started out in a completely different profession - that of a school teacher. But fate had something completely different in store for her. Tanya Puri is the only one amongst them who grew up in the shadow of lies and deception, with a detective for a father. For her, it was a natural progression to join the profession - that too a few years ago. Paliwal, on the other hand, has been in the game for quite some time - more than 15 years. And Lahiri is the oldest one in the profession, having being pulled into this lifestyle in 1989.

BHAVNA PALIWAL, DETECTIVE SINCE: 2000.

TANYA PURI, DETECTIVE SINCE: 2014