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  2. List of fictional detectives - Wikipedia

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    Fictional detectives are characters in detective fiction. These individuals have long been a staple of detective mystery crime fiction , particularly in detective novels and short stories . Much of early detective fiction was written during the " Golden Age of Detective Fiction " (1920s–1930s).

  3. List of detective fiction authors - Wikipedia

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    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

  4. List of fictional private investigators - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Crime fiction - Wikipedia

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    Sherlock Holmes (foreground) oversees the arrest of a criminal; this hero of crime fiction popularized the genre.. Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder. [1]

  7. List of postmodern novels - Wikipedia

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    The Savage Detectives (1998) by Roberto Bolaño [86] Motherless Brooklyn (1999) by Jonathan Lethem [11] The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999) by Salman Rushdie [87] The Intuitionist (1999) by Colson Whitehead [88] Sputnik Sweetheart (1999) by Haruki Murakami [89] A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999-2006) by Daniel Handler [90]

  8. List of male detective characters - Wikipedia

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    Detective Elliot Stabler, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Nigel Strangeways, by Cecil Day-Lewis; Professor John Stubbs, by Ruthven Todd; Detective Matthew Scudder, by Lawrence Block; Shuichi Saihara, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

  9. Golden Age of Detective Fiction - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an era of classic murder mystery novels of similar patterns and styles, predominantly in the 1920s and 1930s. The Golden Age proper is in practice usually taken to refer to a type of fiction which was predominant in the 1920s and 1930s but had been written since at least 1911 and is still being written.