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Agatha Christie (1890–1976) was an English crime novelist, short-story writer and playwright. Her reputation rests on 66 detective novels and 15 short-story collections that have sold over two billion copies, an amount surpassed only by the Bible and the works of William Shakespeare. [ 1 ] She is also the most translated individual author in ...
Inspector Rebus – created by Ian Rankin. Dave Robicheaux – created by James Lee Burke. Inspector Simon Serrailler – created by Susan Hill. Detective Inspector Luke Thanet – created by Dorothy Simpson. Thomson and Thompson – from The Adventures of Tintin, created by Hergé. Dick Tracy – created by Chester Gould.
Ann Cleeves (1954–) Barbara Cleverly. Michael Collins (1924–2005), pseudonym of Dennis Lynds. Michael Connelly (1956–) Patricia Cornwell (1956–) Robert Crais (1953–) Bill Crider (1941–2018) Edmund Crispin (1921–1978) Amanda Cross (1926–2003), pseudonym of Carolyn Gold Heilbrun.
Cormoran Strike. Cormoran Strike is a series of crime fiction novels written by British author J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The story chronicles the cases of the fictional British private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. Seven novels have so far been published in a planned series of ten. [1]
Includes: Featuring Lord Peter Wimsey: The Image in the Mirror, The Incredible Elopement of Lord Peter Wimsey, The Queen's Square, The Necklace of Pearls. Featuring Montague Egg: The Poisoned Dow '08, Sleuths on the Scent, Murder in the Morning, One Too Many, Murder at Pentecost, Maher-Shalal-Hashbaz.
Ian Rankin at the Edinburgh International Book Festival The Inspector Rebus books are a series of detective novels by the Scottish author Sir Ian Rankin. The novels, centred on Detective Inspector John Rebus, are mostly based in and around Edinburgh. They are considered an important contribution to ' Tartan Noir '. Overview Genre and Literary Influences The Rebus novel series began in 1987 ...
Traditionally, the canon of Sherlock Holmes consists of the 56 short stories and four novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. [1] In this context, the term "canon" is an attempt to distinguish between Doyle's original works and subsequent works by other authors using the same characters. Usually capitalized by fans of the Sherlockian game as ...
Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes examines a suspect's boots in an illustration to the 1891 story "The Boscombe Valley Mystery". Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective —whether professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.