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Miss Marple
fictional character appearing in Agatha Christie's crime novels
Arsène Lupin
fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created by French writer Maurice Leblanc
Tintin
fictional character by Belgian cartoonist Hergé
C. Auguste Dupin
fictional French crime-solver created by Edgar Allan Poe
Scooby-Doo
animated television character
Father Brown
fictional priest-detective created by British writer G.K. Chesterton
Shinichi Kudo
fictional character and protagonist in Detective Conan
Ellery Queen
writer of detective fiction (joint pseudonym)
Shaggy Rogers
fictional character in Scooby-Doo
Velma Dinkley
fictional character from Scooby-Doo
Nancy Drew
fictional character in a juvenile mystery series created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate publisher under the collective pseudonym Carolyn Keene
The Hardy Boys
fictional detectives and book series
Fred Jones
fictional character in the American television animated series Scooby-Doo
Daphne Blake
fictional character on Scooby-Doo
Diagnosis: Murder
American action-mystery-comedy-medical crime drama television series (1993-2001)
Jack Reacher
fictional character
Scrappy-Doo
Scrappy-Doo is a fictional character in the Scooby-Doo franchise. A Great Dane puppy and the nephew of the titular character, he was created by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1979 and appeared in various incarnations of the franchise. Lennie Weinrib provided his voice for one season in 1979, and from 1980 on it was performed by Don Messick (who also voiced Scooby). In the first live-action theatrical film, video games and commercials, he was voiced by Scott Innes (with some additional performance by Rowan Atkinson).
The Three Investigators
novel series by Robert Arthur Jr.
Quincy, M.E.
American mystery medical drama TV series (1976–1983)
Granny
character from Looney Tunes cartoon
Kaito Kuroba
fictional character
Father Dowling Mysteries
American television series
Lord Peter Wimsey
fictional character in novels and stories written by Dorothy Sayers
Dipper Pines
fictional character from Gravity Falls
The Five Find-Outers
novel series by Enid Blyton
Simon Templar
fictional character known as The Saint
Herbert Yost
American actor (1879–1945)
Jonathan Creek
Television series
Phoenix Wright
fictional defense attorney from the Ace Attorney series
Bill Bergson
fictional character created by Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren
Richard Castle
fictional character in the television series Castle
Chloe Sullivan
fictional character from Smallville
Miles Edgeworth
fictional character from the Ace Attorney series
Cadfael
Brother Cadfael is the main fictional character in a series of historical murder mysteries written between 1977 and 1994 by the linguist-scholar Edith Pargeter under the name Ellis Peters. The character of Cadfael himself is a Welsh Benedictine monk living at the Abbey Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in Shrewsbury, western England, in the first half of the 12th century. The stories are set between about 1135 and about 1145, during "The Anarchy", the destructive contest for the crown of England between King Stephen and his cousin Empress Maud.
Rosemary & Thyme
television series
Doc Savage
fictional character
Q2527546
fictional English amateur detective
The Secret Seven
series of children's novels written by Enid Blyton
Clifton
Franco-Belgian comics series
Sally Bollywood: Super Detective
French–Australian animated television show
Kōsuke Kindaichi
fictional Japanese detective created by Seishi Yokomizo
Bored to Death
American comedy television series
Feluda
Feluda is a fictional detective and private investigator created by Indian director,writer and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray. Feluda (birth name: Pradosh Chandra Mitter) resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh in 1965, under the editorialship of Ray and Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was "Feludar Goendagiri". Feluda is one of the most impactful and renowned Bengali characters of all time.
William of Baskerville
character in the novel The Name of the Rose
Bobby Jasoos
2014 film by Samar Shaikh
Sir Henry Merrivale
fictional character
Paul Temple
character
Jessica Fletcher
fictional character from the American television series Murder, She Wrote
The Sisters Grimm
book series by Michael Buckley
Philo Vance
fictional detective
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries
television film series
Joseph Rouletabille
fictional character
Travis McGee
fictional character, created by American mystery writer John D. MacDonald
Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen
fictional detective
The Old Man in the Corner
book by Emma Orczy