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 Fictional Detectives and their Creators

Detective fiction junkie or just-so reader, anyone deserves to know these master crime solvers. But who created them in the first place?

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 Detective Creator
29.
Albert Campion
 
 
AnswerMargery Allingham
28.
Precious Ramotswe
 
 
AnswerAlexander McCall Smith
27.
Sherlock Holmes
 
 
AnswerArthur Conan Doyle
26.
Tom Barnaby
 
 
AnswerCaroline Graham
25.
Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple
 
 
AnswerAgatha Christie
24.
Mike Hammer
 
 
AnswerMickey Spillane
23.
Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins
 
 
AnswerWalter Mosley
22.
Roderick Alleyn
 
 
AnswerNgaio Marsh
21.
Gravedigger Jones, Coffin Ed Johnson
 
 
AnswerChester Himes
20.
Perry Mason
 
 
AnswerErle Stanley Gardner
19.
Nero Wolfe
 
 
AnswerRex Stout
18.
Sam Spade
 
 
AnswerDashiell Hammett
17.
Lord Peter Wimsey
 
 
AnswerDorothy Sayers
16.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta
 
 
AnswerPatricia Cornwell
15.
Sid Halley
 
 
AnswerDick Francis
14.
Inspector Ghote
 
 
AnswerH. R. F. Keating
13.
Inspector Maigret
 
 
AnswerGeorges Simenon
12.
Philip Marlowe
 
 
AnswerRaymond Chandler
11.
Father Brown
 
 
AnswerG. K. Chesterton
10.
Bulldog Drummond
 
 
AnswerSapper (Herman Cyril McNeile)
9.
Sam Spade
 
 
AnswerDashiell Hammett
8.
Inspector Wexford
 
 
AnswerRuth Rendell
7.
V. I. Warshawski
 
 
AnswerSara Paretsky
6.
Auguste Dupin
 
 
AnswerEdgar Allan Poe
5.
Kate Fansler
 
 
AnswerAmanda Cross (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun)
4.
Kinsey Millhone
 
 
AnswerSue Grafton
3.
Travis McGee
 
 
AnswerJohn D. MacDonald
2.
Doctor Gideon Fell
 
 
AnswerJohn Dickson Carr
1.
Adam Dalgliesh
 
 
AnswerP. D. James
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