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  2. Category:Fictional British police detectives - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Fictional British police detectives" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.

  3. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. 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 ...

  4. Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s. While the Golden Age proper is usually taken to refer to works from that period, this type of fiction has been written since at least 1911 and is still being written.

  5. Category:British detective novels - Wikipedia

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    The Cheyne Mystery; The China Governess; Cicely Disappears; The Claverton Mystery; The Clock in the Hatbox; Clutch of Constables; Colonel Gore's Second Case; Come Away, Death (novel) Common Sense Is All You Need; A Connoisseur's Case; Constable Guard Thyself; Cordelia Gray; The Corpse in the Car; The Counsellor (novel) Cover Her Face; Crime at ...

  6. Detective fiction - Wikipedia

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    Detective fiction aimed at young male readers emerged as a distinct and highly popular subgenre in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, particularly in British and American boys' weekly magazines. While school stories remained the dominant form of boys' fiction, detective narratives claimed a strong second place in popularity from the 1890s ...

  7. Peter Lovesey - Wikipedia

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    Peter Harmer Lovesey (born 10 September 1936), also known by his pen name Peter Lear, is a British writer of historical and contemporary detective novels and short stories. His best-known series characters are Sergeant Cribb, a Victorian-era police detective based in London, and Peter Diamond, a modern-day police detective in Bath. He is also ...

  8. Gentleman detective - Wikipedia

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    The gentleman detective is a type of fictional character. He (or she) has long been a staple of crime fiction, particularly in detective novels and short stories set in the United Kingdom in the Golden Age. While not necessarily aristocracy, the heroes of these adventures are often members of the British gentry or gentlemen by conduct.

  9. John Creasey - Wikipedia

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    John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 – 9 June 1973) [1] was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms.