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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 .
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 ...
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The books are about fifty pages longer than the original volumes. [6] Detective Camp (May 9, 2006) Mayflower Treasure Hunt (August 28, 2007) White House White-out (August 12, 2008) Sleepy Hollow Sleepover (July 27, 2010) The New Year Dragon Dilemma (November 22, 2011) The Castle Crime (January 28, 2014) Operation Orca (June 28, 2015)
For authors who write genre stories in which a puzzle must be solved, in almost all cases involving a crime, see Category:American mystery writers. Most authors of hardboiled detective fiction , in which both action and puzzle-solving are central, are named as both "crime fiction" and "mystery" writers.
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 ...
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