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| Albert Campion (amateur detective) |
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Margery Allingham | |
| Hamish Macbeth |
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M. C. Beaton | |
| The Wombles |
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Elizabeth Beresford | |
| Charlie Chan |
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Earl D. Biggers | |
| Paddington Bear |
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Michael Bond | |
| Destry, Dr. Kildare |
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Max Brand | |
| Tarzan |
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Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| Philip Marlowe |
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Raymond Chandler | |
| The Saint (Simon Templar) |
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Leslie Charteris | |
| Father Brown |
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G. K. Chesterton | |
| Jack Reacher – played by Tom Cruise in two films (2012 and 2016) |
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Lee Child | |
| Superintendent Battle, Inspector Japp (they appear in five and seven novels respectively) |
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Agatha Christie | |
| Jack Ryan (played in films by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford twice, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine) |
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Tom Clancy | |
| Artemis Fowl (12–year–old master criminal) |
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Eoin Colfer | |
| Sergeant Cuff (one of the first detectives in English fiction) |
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Wilkie Collins | |
| Sherlock Holmes |
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch (veteran LAPD homicide detective) |
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Michael Connelly | |
| Hannah Massey, Maggie Rowan, Tilly Trotter |
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Catherine Cookson | |
| Richard Sharpe (played on TV by Sean Bean) |
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Bernard Cornwell | |
| Kay Scarpetta (Italian American pathologist) |
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Patricia Cornwell | |
| William Brown ('Just William') |
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Richmal Crompton | |
| Doctor Finlay |
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A. J. Cronin | |
| Dirk Pitt (marine engineer, government agent and adventurer) |
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Clive Cussler | |
| Marcus Didius Falco (detective of ancient Rome) |
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Lindsey Davis | |
| Harry Palmer, Bernard Sampson (spies) |
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Len Deighton | |
| Inspector Morse |
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Colin Dexter | |
| Svengali |
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George du Maurier | |
| Paul Temple |
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Francis Durbridge | |
| Horatio Hornblower |
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C. S. Forrester | |
| Sid Halley (jockey turned private detective) |
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Dick Francis | |
| Jemima Shaw (detective) |
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Antonia Fraser | |
| Van der Valk |
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Nicholas Freeling | |
| Perry Mason |
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Erle Stanley Gardner | |
| Theodore Boone – 13–year–old son of two lawyers, who dreams of following in their footsteps and is often approached by his classmates to solve their issues |
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John Grisham | |
| Hannibal Lecter |
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Thomas Harris | |
| The Cisco Kid (a somewhat different character from the one that became famous on TV and in films) |
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O. Henry | |
| Tom Ripley (amoral anti–hero – "the talented Mr. Ripley") |
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Patricia Highsmith | |
| Detectives Andy Dalziel and Peter Pascoe |
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Reginald Hill | |
| A. J. Raffles (gentleman burglar, played on TV by Anthony Valentine) |
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E. W. Hornung | |
| Alex Rider (14–year–old MI6 agent) |
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Anthony Horowitz | |
| Tom Brown (schoolboy and Oxford student, 1857 and 1861) |
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Thomas Hughes | |
| Quasimodo, the Hunchback of Notre Dame |
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Victor Hugo | |
| Adam Dalgleish, Cordelia Grey (detectives) |
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P. D. James | |
| Biggles |
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Captain W. E. Johns | |
| Erik the Viking (book 1983, film - with a completely different plot - 1989) |
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Terry Jones | |
| Alex Delaware (child psychologist – US author, first appeared 1985) |
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Jonathan Kellerman | |
| Lassie (English–born US novelist, 1897–1943) |
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Eric Knight | |
| George Smiley |
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John le Carre | |
| Dr. Dolittle |
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Hugh Lofting | |
| Jason Bourne (later taken up by Eric van Lustbader) – played in films by Matt Damon |
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Robert Ludlum | |
| Inspector Alleyn |
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Ngaio Marsh | |
| Rumpole of the Bailey |
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John Mortimer (author 1923–2009) | |
| Hopalong Cassidy (author 1883–1956) |
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Clarence Mulford | |
| Reginald Perrin |
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David Nobbs | |
| Alex Cross, African–American psychologist and former FBI agent – played in two films by Morgan Freeman (author born in upstate New York, 1947) |
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James Patterson |
| Brother Cadfael, Inspector Felse |
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Ellis Peters | |
| C. Auguste Dupin (detective) |
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Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Gargantua and Pantagruel (in a series of five 16th century novels –giants, father and son respectively) |
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Francois Rabelais | |
| Inspector Rebus |
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Ian Rankin | |
| Inspector Wexford |
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Ruth Rendell | |
| Billy Bunter |
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Frank Richards | |
| Fu Manchu |
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Sax Rohmer | |
| Harry Potter |
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J. K. Rowling | |
| Sky Masterson, Nathan Detroit, Nicely Nicely Johnson |
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Damon Runyan | |
| Matthew Shardlake (hunchbacked lawyer in the reign of Henry VIII) |
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C. J. Sansom | |
| Lord Peter Wimsey |
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Dorothy L. Sayers | |
| Inspector Maigret |
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Georges Simenon | |
| Frankenstein and his monster |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | |
| Mrs. Malaprop |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan | |
| Horrid Henry |
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Francesca Simon | |
| Lewis Eliot: narrator and hero of a series of novels by |
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C. P. Snow | |
| Alf Garnett |
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Johnny Speight | |
| Mike Hammer |
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Mickey Spillane | |
| Mrs. Miniver (originally for a column in The Times 1937, published in book form 1940, filmed in 1942 starring Greer Garson and Walter Pigeon) |
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Jan Struther | |
| John Jorrocks (grocer and sportsman) |
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R. S. Surtees | |
| Walter Mitty |
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James Thurber | |
| Worzel Gummidge |
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Barbara Euphan Todd | |
| Adrian Mole |
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Sue Townsend | |
| Mary Poppins |
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P. L. Travers | |
| Billy Liar |
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Keith Waterhouse | |
| P.C. George Dixon (of Dock Green) |
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Ted Willis | |
| Tracy Beaker, Mark Spark, Freddy's Teddy (children's author) |
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Jacqueline Wilson | |
| Jeeves & Wooster |
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P. G. Wodehouse | |
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