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Alison Temple ('Alison Wonderland') is a private detective who joins an all-female detective agency in London in two books by British novelist Helen Smith. Jane Tennison is a Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard played by Helen Mirren in the ITV Prime Suspect series, aired between 1991 and 2006.
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 ...
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 .
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. The author who created the team appears in parentheses. Detective Duos: Anabel and Looker – Author Bryant and John May – (Christopher Fowler)
Detective Chimp: John Broome and Carmine Infantino: Adventures of Rex the Wonder Dog #4 (July–August 1952) Emerson Cod: Bryan Fuller: Pushing Daisies (TV) (2007) Elvis Cole: Robert Crais: The Monkey's Raincoat (1987) The Continental Op: Dashiell Hammett: The Tenth Clew [5] (1924) Alexa Crowe: Claire Tonkin: My Life Is Murder (TV) (2019 ...
In an item from the Wisconsin Public Radio program, To the Best of Our Knowledge, the first novel "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, was a surprise hit [in Scotland], receiving two special Booker citations and a place on the Times Literary Supplement's International Books of the Year and the Millennium list." The UK success did not speed ...
Detective work was an opportunity for a more exciting, adventurous and varied career offering financial security and independence. A career with a purpose, open to women of all ages and ...
The Secret Seven written by Enid Blyton (four child detectives) Tim Donohue, British secret agent from the book The Constant Gardener by John le Carré; Tom Klay in Bryan Christy's 2021 novel In the Company of Killers; Wyman Ford, from books by Douglas Preston