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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.
Brother Cadfael, The Cadfael Chronicles by Ellis Peters; Rick Cahill, Yesterday's Echo by Matt Coyle Lieutenant Horatio Caine, CSI: Miami; Slim Callaghan, by Peter Cheyney ...
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 .
Margaret "Meg" Duncan is a girl mystery solving series under publisher pseudonym Holly Beth Walker, illustrated by Cliff Shule 1967–1972. Sabrina "Bree" Duncan portrayed by Kate Jackson is a private detective on the ABC series Charlie's Angels 1976–1979. Olivia Dunham portrayed by Anna Torv is an FBI agent on the Fox series Fringe (TV ...
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 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 Postscript Murders: A Mystery. After a 90-year-old woman named Peggy dies, the police have no reason to be suspicious. But Peggy used to be a "murder consultant" for authors, and Natalka, her ...
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 ...