Literary detectives quiz, pt II

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Hint	Author	First name	Answer
Good-looking Scotland Yard chief inspector assisted by his aristocratic friend Melrose Plant	Martha Grimes	Richard	Jury
Medieval monk trying to track down a serial killer in an Italian abbey	Umberto Eco	William of	Baskerville
Police officer in ficticious Swedish town Kymlinge who bets on the existence of God.	Hakan Nesser	Gunnar	Barbarotti
Soviet, then Russian police officer solving mysteries in Gorky Park and elsewhere in spite of interfering Secret Services, ruling parties and oligarchs	Martin Cruz Smith	Arkady	Renko
Police psychologist portrayed by Morgan Freeman in two film adapations	James Patterson	Alex	Cross
Finnish police officer and lawyer who used to play the bass in a punkrock band	Leena Lehtolainen	Maria	Kallio
DEA agent who witnesses all the horrors of the Mexican drug war	Don Winslow	Art	Keller
Clever private investigator from New York, often gets involved in his cases through his father, Inspector Richard.	Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay/Manfred Bennington Lee)	Ellery	Queen
Catholic priest who solves mysteries through his deep understanding of human behavior	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	(Father)	Brown
LAPD detective specialising in serial killers, regularly breaking laws and cheating on his wife	James Ellroy	Lloyd	Hopkins
«Kommissär» (superintendent) in the Swiss capital Bern, gets heavily involved in his cases	Friedrich Dürrenmatt	Hans	Bärlach
Violent hard-boiled private eye in New York who doesn't hesitate to shoot, has a special relationship with his secretary Velda	Mickey Spillane	Mike	Hammer
Bright Swedish boy who exposes thieves, spies and murderers	Astrid Lindgren	Bill (Kalle)	Bergson (Blomqvist)
Inspector from Gothenburg in Western Sweden	Helene Tursten	Irene	Huss
Detective with somewhat contradictory personality traits investigating the chaotic and corrupt society of Athens	Petros Markaris	Costas	Haritos
Private detective in the L.A. area whose cases often start with the search of a missing person and end in tragedy	Ross Macdonald	Lew	Archer
«The Saint» takes from the evil and gives to their victims, famously portrayed by Roger Moore in a 1960s TV series	Leslie Charteris	Simon	Templar
Crime reporter in Denver and L.A. investigating his brother's suicide and tracking down serial killlers	Michael Connelly	Jack	McEvoy
Headstrong, alcoholic and brillant detective in Norway's capital Oslo	Jo Nesbø	Harry	Hole
Stockholm police inspector unhappy with his marriage and the injustice in society	Maj Sjöwall/Per Wahlöö	Martin	Beck

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