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The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1] Later, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes became the most famous example and remains so to this day. The detectives are often accompanied by a Dr. Watson–like assistant or narrator.
This is a list of mystery writers This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Almost all examples of mystery fiction focus on the investigation of one or more crimes and thus fall within the broader field of crime fiction. Authors of crime fiction in which mystery investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather , The Postman Always Rings Twice ) should be named only in the appropriate category, Category ...
Most authors of whodunits, in which the puzzle-solving aspect predominates, are named exclusively as writers in the more specific subcategory of "mystery." Authors of crime fiction in which investigation and solution are nongermane (e.g., The Godfather , The Postman Always Rings Twice ) are named in the "crime fiction" category, but not as ...
This list includes pairs or groups of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story. Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B ; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B .
Max Carrados – a blind detective in a series of mystery stories by Ernest Bramah; Detective Inspector Jack Caffery – Mo Hayder; Detective Christine Cagney – Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday (played by Loretta Swit 1981, Meg Foster 1982 and Sharon Gless 1983 to 1988 in Cagney and Lacey) Lieutenant Horatio Caine – (played by David Caruso ...
The following is a list of female writers in the detective and mystery genres. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
List of kidnappings; List of murder convictions without a body; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990; List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910; List of unsolved deaths; Lists of unsolved murders