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  2. Locked-room mystery - Wikipedia

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    Hoch's protagonist is a gifted amateur detective who uses pure brainpower to solve his cases. The French writer Paul Halter, who wrote over 30 novels, almost exclusively in the locked-room genre, has been described as the natural successor to John Dickson Carr. [6]

  3. The Case of Miss Elliott - Wikipedia

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    The Old Man's cases include a wide range of sensational and complex detective puzzles: murder ("The Tremarn Case"), blackmail ("The Murder of Miss Pebmarsh"), perfect alibis ("The Case of Miss Elliott"), and thefts ("The Affair at the Novelty Theatre").

  4. Kogoro Akechi - Wikipedia

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    One of the characters, Detective Kogoro Mori is a persistent and courageous yet highly flawed and lecherous private detective—almost a parody of Kogoro Akechi. He has his cases solved for him by the youthful main character, Conan Edogawa. The name of young Conan's elementary school detective club is the "Detective Boys".

  5. Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. III - Wikipedia

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    The case takes place on 11 April 1890. Oswald Mason was murdered in his home by an intruder. At the request of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who is concerned that it might have had something to do with Oswald's work at Her Majesty's Treasury, Scotland Yard's Inspector Gregson recruits Holmes and Watson to investigate Mason's death.

  6. List of Case Closed volumes (61–80) - Wikipedia

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    The Case Closed manga, known in Japan as Detective Conan (名探偵コナン, Meitantei Conan), is written by Gosho Aoyama and serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday since January 19, 1994. [1] Since Case Closed ' s premiere, over 1,000 chapters have been released in Japan, making it the 25th longest running ...

  7. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee - Wikipedia

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    "Cases of Judge Dee"), also known as Di Gong An or Dee Goong An, is an 18th-century Chinese gong'an detective novel by an anonymous author, "Buti zhuanren" (Chinese: 不题撰人). It is loosely based on the stories of Di Renjie ( Wade-Giles Ti Jen-chieh), a county magistrate and statesman of the Tang court, who lived roughly 630–700.

  8. DNA is solving cold cases everywhere. One true-crime writer ...

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    Edward Humes, author of 'The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder,' discusses the implications of forensic genealogy. DNA is solving cold cases everywhere. One ...

  9. Armchair detective - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Marian Phipps, a character appearing from 1937 in stories by Phyllis Bentley, is a detective novelist who begins solving cases that a policeman friend relates to her. [3] More recent examples include L Lawliet from Death Note (2004), who reads case files to find unsolved crimes, which he then investigates.