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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 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 .
This is a list of detective fiction writers. Many of these authors may also overlap with authors of crime fiction , mystery fiction , or thriller fiction . A–C
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 .
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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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 .
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 ...