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	'''Donna Leon''' is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti starting with ''Death at La Fenice'' (1992).		'''Donna Leon''' is the American author of a series of crime novels set in Venice and featuring the fictional hero Commissario Guido Brunetti starting with ''Death at La Fenice'' (1992).
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		+	'''Ted Lewis''' - ''Jack's Return Home'' (1970) – was later retitled ''Get Carter'' after the success of the film of the same name.

	'''Jeff Lindsay''' is the pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich. He is best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan.		'''Jeff Lindsay''' is the pen name of Jeffry P. Freundlich. He is best known for his novels about sociopathic vigilante Dexter Morgan.

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 '''Alexander McCall Smith''' was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
-''No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency'' – is a series of novels set in Botswana and featuring the character Mma Precious Ramotswe. The series is named after the first novel.
+''No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency'' – is a series of novels set in Botswana and featuring the character Mma Precious Ramotswe. The series is named after the first novel.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]]</blockquote>'''Val McDermid''' is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring Dr. Tony Hill, a clinical psychologist who works as a profiler for the National Home Office and frequently Bradfield police. Adapted into the television series ''Wire in the Blood''.
 ''The Mermaids Singing'' (1995) – is the first novel featuring Tony Hill, who joins forces with Detective Inspector Carol Jordan.
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 ''The Godfather'' (1969) – tells the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City, headed by Vito Corleone, the Godfather. Adapted into a 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo.
-'''Thomas Pynchon''' – ''Inherent Vice'' (2009) is set in Los Angeles in 1970. Private investigator Doc Sportello’s ex-girlfriend shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Themes of drug culture and counterculture are prominently featured.
+'''Thomas Pynchon''' – ''Inherent Vice'' (2009) is set in Los Angeles in 1970. Private investigator Doc Sportello’s ex-girlfriend shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Themes of drug culture and counterculture are prominently featured.<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - USA|Novels - USA]] / [[Entertainment/Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]</blockquote>'''Ellery Queen''' is a pseudonym created by American crime fiction writers Frederic Dannay and Manfred Bennington Lee, and is the name of their main fictional character, a mystery writer in New York City who helps his police inspector father solve murder cases. The fictional Ellery Queen was the hero of more than 30 novels and several short story collections. The early novels had a page near the end called “Challenge to the Reader”, giving clues so that readers might solve each case before seeing the answer.
 ''The Roman Hat Mystery'' (1929) – is the first of the Ellery Queen mysteries.
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 '''JK Rowling''' writes crime fiction under the pen name Robert Galbraith.
-''The Cuckoo's Calling'' (2013) – is the first novel in the ''Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels. Strike is a disabled Afghan War veteran and struggling private investigator. The other novels in the series are ''The Silkworm'' (2014), ''Career of Evil'' (2015), ''Lethal White'' (2018), and ''Troubled Blood'' (2020).
+''The Cuckoo's Calling'' (2013) – is the first novel in the ''Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels. Strike is a disabled Afghan War veteran and struggling private investigator. The other novels in the series are ''The Silkworm'' (2014), ''Career of Evil'' (2015), ''Lethal White'' (2018), and ''Troubled Blood'' (2020).<blockquote>For other works by this author see: [[Entertainment/Novels - British Isles|Novels - British Isles]] / [[Entertainment/Literature - Childrens|Literature - Childrens]]</blockquote>'''Dorothy L'''(eigh) '''Sayers''' is best known for her mysteries set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. She has also translated Dante’s ''Divine Comedy''.
 Lord Peter Wimsey is a gentleman detective who solves crimes for his own amusement. He is assisted by his valet, Mervyn Butler; police detective Charles Parker; and mystery writer Harriet Vane, who becomes his wife.

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 '''Caroline Graham''' is best known as the writer of the ''Chief Inspector Barnaby'' series, dramatised for television as ''Midsomer Murders.''
-''The Killings at Badger's'' (1987) – is the first volume in Graham's ''Chief Inspector Barnaby'' series.
+''The Killings at Badger's Drift'' (1987) – is the first volume in Graham's ''Chief Inspector Barnaby'' series.
 '''Dashiell Hammett''' was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He devoted much of his life to left-wing activism and was blacklisted in 1953.

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 '''Agatha Christie''' was born Agatha Miller in Torquay in 1890. She married Colonel Archibald Christie in 1914. Her second husband was archaeologist Max Mallowan. Christie is the best-selling fiction writer of all time; her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections having sold more than two billion copies. She also wrote the play ''The Mousetrap'', and six romantic novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. All except five of her books were published by the Collins Crime Club.
-Hercule Poirot is a Belgian detective who appears in 33 novels. Captain Arthur Hastings is Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories.
+Hercule Poirot is a Belgian detective who appears in 33 novels. Captain Arthur Hastings is Poirot's lifelong friend and appears in many cases. Japp is a Scotland Yard Inspector and appears in many of the stories.<blockquote>''The Mysterious Affair at Styles'' (1920) – debut novel featuring Hercule Poirot, who is settling in England as a refugee from World War I.
 ''The Murder of Roger Ackroyd'' (1926) – Poirot comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of Roger Ackroyd, a wealthy widower who is well known in his small village.
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 ''Five Little Pigs'' (1942) – Poirot is hired by Carla, the daughter of the deceased Caroline, to prove that Caroline did not kill her husband. Poirot identifies five people who had been with Caroline and her husband the day of the murder whom he dubs “the five little pigs”.
-''Curtain'' (1975) – final novel featuring Hercule Poirot.
+''Curtain'' (1975) – final novel featuring Hercule Poirot.</blockquote>Miss Marple appears in 12 novels. Jane Marple lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur consulting detective. Miss Marple’s first published appearance was in ''The Royal Magazine'' in 1927 with the first printing of the short story ''The Tuesday Night Club'' which later became the first chapter of ''The Thirteen Problems'' (1932).<blockquote>''The Murder at the Vicarage'' (1930) – is Miss Marple’s first appearance in a full-length novel.
 ''The Moving Finger'' (1942) – a brother and sister arrive in Lymstock in Devon and soon receive an anonymous letter accusing them of being lovers, not siblings. Title taken from Edward FitzGerald’s translation of ''The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam''.
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 ''The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side'' (1962) – is set in St. Mary Mead. The title is taken from the poem ''The Lady of Shalott'' by Tennyson. The novel was dedicated “To Margaret Rutherford in admiration” – Rutherford had played Miss Marple in the first film adaptations of the novels.
-''Sleeping Murder'' (1976) – last published novel and the final novel featuring Miss Marple. Published posthumously.
+''Sleeping Murder'' (1976) – last published novel and the final novel featuring Miss Marple. Published posthumously.</blockquote>Tommy and Tuppence are two fictional detectives who appear in four novels. Their full names are Thomas Beresford and Prudence Cowley.
 ''And Then There Were None'' (1939) – was originally published as ''Ten Little Niggers'' and in the US as ''Ten Little Indians''. The title refers to the last line of a rhyme. The guests on an isolated island realise that the nature of the deaths occurring in their group corresponds with the respective lines of the rhyme.
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 '''James Ellroy''' is a crime writer whose work was influenced by the murder of his mother in 1958 when he was 10 years old.
-The ''L.A. Quartet'' is a sequence of novels set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles –
+The ''L.A. Quartet'' is a sequence of novels set in the late 1940s through the late 1950s in Los Angeles – <blockquote>''The Black Dahlia'' (1987) – follows a brutal murder in 1947. The body of Elizabeth Short (known posthumously as the Black Dahlia) was discovered in a vacant lot. Officers Dwight "Bucky" Bleichert and Leland "Lee" Blanchard, partners and local celebrities from their boxing days, aid the investigation.
 ''The'' ''Big Nowhere'' (1988) – takes place in the early 1950s. Former LAPD detective Buzz Meeks, who now works as an enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen and a pimp for Howard Hughes, gets caught up in a communist investigation that has ties to a series of homosexual murders that are being investigated by a sheriff's deputy named Danny Upshaw.
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 ''L.A. Confidential'' (1990) – tells the story of a group of LAPD officers in the early 1950s, and the intersection of police corruption and Hollywood celebrity. The title refers to the scandal magazine ''Confidential''. Adapted into a 1997 film.
-''White Jazz'' (1992) – tells the story of Lieutenant David Klein, a veteran policeman in the LAPD's vice unit who moonlights as a hitman for organized crime.
+''White Jazz'' (1992) – tells the story of Lieutenant David Klein, a veteran policeman in the LAPD's vice unit who moonlights as a hitman for organized crime.</blockquote>''Underworld USA Trilogy'' is the name given to three novels that tell a story of political and legal corruption in the United States between 1958 and 1973. Each novel is written from the viewpoint of three separate characters, all of whom are policemen or ex-policemen – <blockquote>''American Tabloid'' (1995) – chronicles the events surrounding three rogue American law enforcement officers from 1958 through to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
 ''The Cold Six Thousand'' (2001) – is a sequel to ''American Tabloid'' and covers events from 1963 to 1968.
-''Blood’s a Rover'' (2009) – spans the years 1968 to 1973. Title taken from a poem by A. E. Housman.
+''Blood’s a Rover'' (2009) – spans the years 1968 to 1973. Title taken from a poem by A. E. Housman.</blockquote>'''Kenneth Fearing''' - ''The Big Clock'' (1946) is about a murderer attempting to cover-up his own crime, and has been filmed three times – ''The Big Clock'' (1948), ''Police Python 357'' (1976) and ''No Way Out'' (1987).
 '''Paul Féval''' - ''Jean Diable'' (1862) can claim to be the world's first modern novel of detective fiction. It was part of an 11-book series of crime novels known as ''Les Habits Noir'' (1844-1874).

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 ''Michael Bennett'' is a series of novels starting with ''Step on a Crack'' (2007) that follows an Irish American New York City detective, as he solves terrifying crimes and raises his ten adopted children.
-'''Sara Paretsky''' is best known for her novels featuring V. I. Warshawski (Victoria Iphigenia, known as ‘Vic’), a fictional private investigator from Chicago. The first in the series was ''Indemnity Only'' (1982). The second book ''Deadlock'' (1984) was adapted as the film ''V. I. Warshawski'', with Kathleen Turner in the title role.
+'''Sara Paretsky''' is best known for her novels featuring V. I. Warshawski (Victoria Iphigenia, known as ‘Vic’), a fictional private investigator from Chicago. The first in the series was ''Indemnity Only'' (1982). The second book, ''Deadlock'' (1984) was adapted as the film ''V. I. Warshawski'', with Kathleen Turner in the title role.
 '''Robert B'''(rown) '''Parker''' is the author of a series of 40 novels about Spenser, a private investigator in Boston. He has also written ''Perchance to Dream,'' an authorized sequel to ''The Big Sleep'' by Raymond Chandler, and the Jesse Stone series about a Los Angeles police officer who moves to a small New England town.
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 '''Rex Stout''' was the author of 33 novels about the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin. Nero Wolfe is an eccentric armchair New York detective who was born in Montenegro.
-''Fer-de-Lance'' (1934) – is the first Nero Wolfe detective novel.
+''Fer-de-Lance'' (1934) – is the first Nero Wolfe novel.
-''A Family Affair'' (1975) – is the last Nero Wolfe detective novel.
+''A Family Affair'' (1975) – is the last Nero Wolfe novel.
 '''Josephine Tey''' was the pen name of Elizabeth MacKintosh.

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 '''Marion Chesney''' wrote romance novels under five different pen names, and wrote the Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth mystery series under the pen name M. C. Beaton.
-Hamish Macbeth is a police officer in Lochdubh, in the Scottish Highlands. Subject of 34 novels, all beginning ‘Death of a ‘. Adapted into a television series starring Robert Carlyle
+Hamish Macbeth is a police officer in Lochdubh, in the Scottish Highlands. Subject of 34 novels, all beginning ‘Death of a ‘. Adapted into a television series starring Robert Carlyle.
 ''Death of a Gossip'' (1985) – first Hamish Macbeth mystery novel.
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 Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson’”
-Holmes says ‘The Game is Afoot’ at the beginning of ''The Adventure of the Abbey Grange''.
+Holmes says "The Game is Afoot" at the beginning of ''The Adventure of the Abbey Grange''.
 Dr. John H. Watson is Holmes' best friend, assistant, and shares Holmes’ rooms in Baker Street. He is married to Mary Morstan.
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 '''Dashiell Hammett''' was an American author of hard-boiled detective novels and short stories. He devoted much of his life to left-wing activism and was blacklisted in 1953.
-''Red Harvest'' (1929) – debut novel. Narrated by The Continental Op, a private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office. Set in Personville (known as "Poisonville" to the locals), the novel is loosely based on the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labor dispute that escalated after a mining company fired upon its own miners who were on strike. Described by author André Gide as "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror."
+''Red Harvest'' (1929) – debut novel. Narrated by The Continental Op, a private investigator employed as an operative of the Continental Detective Agency's San Francisco office. Set in Personville (known as "Poisonville" to the locals), the novel is loosely based on the Anaconda Road massacre, a 1920 labour dispute that escalated after a mining company fired upon its own miners who were on strike. Described by author André Gide as "a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism, and horror."
 ''The Maltese Falcon'' (1930) – follows Sam Spade, a San Francisco private detective, and his dealings with three adventurers, all of whom are competing to obtain a jewel-encrusted statuette (the Maltese Falcon). Adapted into a 1941 John Huston film starring Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade.
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 ''The Private Patient'' (2008) – last novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series.
-Cordelia Gray is the protagonist of ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'' (1972) and of ''The Skull Beneath the Skin'' (1982). She who works as a private detective in London, having inherited the detective agency Pryde.
+Cordelia Gray is the protagonist of ''An Unsuitable Job for a Woman'' (1972) and of ''The Skull Beneath the Skin'' (1982). She works as a private detective in London, having inherited the detective agency Pryde.
 ''Death Comes to Pemberley'' (2011) – continues Jane Austen's ''Pride and Prejudice'' with a murder mystery.
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 '''Alexander McCall Smith''' was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
-''No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency'' – is a series of novels set in Botswana and featuring the character Mma Precious Ramotswe. The series is named after the first novel.
+''No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency'' – is a series of novels set in Botswana and featuring the character Mma Precious Ramotswe. The series is named after the first novel.
 '''Val McDermid''' is a Scottish crime writer, best known for a series of suspense novels starring Dr. Tony Hill, a clinical psychologist who works as a profiler for the National Home Office and frequently Bradfield police. Adapted into the television series ''Wire in the Blood''.