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This quiz has been taken 82 times
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Hint	Author	First name	Answer	% Correct
Belgian, not French!	Agatha Christie	Hercule	Poirot	100%
Elementary: The master of deduction	Arthur Conan Doyle	Sherlock	Holmes	98%
Kind old lady with interest in knitting, gardening and murder	Agatha Christie	Jane	Marple	84%
Tough but romantic Californian private investigator	Raymond Chandler	Philip	Marlowe	76%
Hard-boiled PI portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon"	Dashiell Hammett	Sam	Spade	69%
Commissaire in Paris, often with great understanding for his suspects	Georges Simenon	Jules	Maigret	65%
Increasingly depressive inspector in southern Sweden	Henning Mankell	Kurt	Wallander	55%
Headstrong LAPD detective	Michael Connelly	Hieronymus "Harry"	Bosch	53%
Skinny, tattoed hacker assisting Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist	Stieg Larsson	Lisbeth	Salander	53%
Music loving Detective Inspector in Edinburgh	Ian Rankin	John	Rebus	41%
Forensic anthropologist working in Montreal and Charlotte, NC	Kathy Reichs	Temperance	Brennan	35%
Commissario in Sicily named in homage of the above	Andrea Camilleri	Salvo	Montalbano	31%
The first of his kind, investigating "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"	Edgar Allan Poe	C. Auguste	Dupin	29%
Commissario in Venice facing both crime and nepotism in the upper class	Donna Leon	Guido	Brunetti	18%
Nihilist PI who often gets knocked out before solving murders in 15 arrondissements of Paris	Léo Malet	Nestor	Burma	18%
Mildly autistic Paris commissaire who never solves murders through logic but intuition	Fred Vargas	Jean-Baptiste	Adamsberg	12%
Book burning Private Eye in Barcelona with gastronomic passion	Manuel Vázquez Montalbán	Pepe	Carvalho	10%
Feminist, anti-capitalist and alcoholic inspector then PI in Hamburg	Doris Gercke	Bella	Block	8%
Solves delicate mysteries in the last days of the Roman Republic	John Maddox Roberts	Decius	Caecilius Metellus	8%
Former police officer in Berlin who has to investigate very, very cautiously during the Nazi era	Philip Kerr	Bernhard "Bernie"	Gunther	8%