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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 ...
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 .
The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association. [1] [2] Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America published a similar list titled The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. [3] [4] Many titles can be found in both lists. [3]
A mystery film is a genre of film revolving around the solution to a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of a protagonist to solve the mystery by means of clues, investigation, and deduction. This is a list of mystery films by decade.
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 ...
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 .