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