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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 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 .
Stephanie Plum is a New Jersey bounty hunter in a comic mystery series by American Janet Evanovich begun 1994; acted by Katherine Heigl in comedy murder mystery One for the Money (film) 2012. Emily Pollifax is an elderly widow who volunteers for the CIA and has to solve mysteries to get out of trouble in series by Dorothy Gilman begun 1966. [21]
The Roman Hat Mystery (1929) Agatha Raisin: M.C. Beaton: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death (1992) Precious Ramotswe: Alexander McCall Smith: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency [20] (1998) Jeff Randall: Dennis Spooner: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV) (1969) Sunny Randall: Robert B. Parker: Family Honor [21] (1999) Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins ...
The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) Satan Met a Lady (1936) Secret Agent (1936) The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes (1937) Night of Mystery (1937) Silver Blaze (1937) Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937) Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) Young and Innocent (1937) Arsène Lupin ...
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This is a list of detective fiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction , mystery fiction , or thriller fiction . A–C
First appearing in The Mystery of the Disappearing Cat, she reappears in The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters, when the children question her about the regular passengers on the 10:15 Monday bus to Sheepsale. In The Mystery of the Hidden House, the children (save for Fatty) see her at the railway station but that is the last time she is mentioned.