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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (1939 film) (690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Trouble Shooter (1939). The film stars Bonita Granville as teenage amateur detective Nancy Drew, Frankie Thomas as her boyfriend, and John Litel as her

Dian Belmont (872 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character, associated with the golden age Sandman, a socialite and amateur detective, she assisted Sandman on most of his adventures as his aide and confidant

The Big Foot (162 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on his noisy motorbike and tries to find a connection. Hampered by amateur detective Gordon Cardew, aided and admired by lawyer Jim Ferraby and the beautiful

Irish Luck (1939 film) (126 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

adventure film directed by Howard Bretherton. The film is also known as Amateur Detective in the United Kingdom. Frankie Darro as Buzzy O'Brien Dick Purcell

Whistling in Brooklyn (194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the third and last film starring Skelton as radio personality and amateur detective Wally "The Fox" Benton, following Whistling in the Dark and Whistling

Edward Bonney (1,732 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mississippi Valley and the Far West. Bonney was a bounty hunter and amateur detective who in 1845 posed as a counterfeiter, ironically having been arrested

Sir Henry Merrivale (486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sir Henry Merrivale is a fictional amateur detective created by "Carter Dickson", a pen name of John Dickson Carr (1906–1977). Also known as "the Old

Saloon Bar (597 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the same name by Frank Harvey in which Harker had also starred. An amateur detective tries to clear an innocent man of a crime before the date of his execution

Inge Brück (273 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Molly Mill [de] in which she played the title role, a cleaning lady/amateur detective, which was a ratings hit and regularly drew audiences of over 20 million

Jessica Fletcher (2,164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fletcher is a best-selling author of mystery novels, an English teacher, amateur detective, criminology professor, and congresswoman. In 2004, Fletcher was listed

Gareth Penn (1,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Penn (born January 1, 1941) is an American true crime author and amateur detective known for being among the first non-journalists to write about the

Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019 film) (1,612 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, stars Sophia Lillis in the role of amateur detective Nancy Drew, as she investigates a haunted house. It also stars Zoe

A Murder at the End of the World (2,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Marling and Zal Batmanglij for FX on Hulu. It stars Emma Corrin as an amateur detective who attempts to solve a murder at an isolated Arctic retreat in Iceland

Murder, She Wrote (4,927 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

series focuses on the life of Jessica Fletcher, a mystery writer and amateur detective, who becomes involved in solving murders that take place in the fictional

Murder at the ABA (898 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

American writer Isaac Asimov, following the adventures of a writer and amateur detective named Darius Just, whom Asimov modeled on his friend Harlan Ellison

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (2,444 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Television for ABC. Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy starred as amateur detective brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, while Pamela Sue Martin

Manhunter (Paul Kirk) (3,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

to as Manhunter within the DC Universe. Originally a plainclothes amateur detective character, Kirk was called "manhunter" only in the title of his stories

List of female detective characters (15,453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for use in her Adams stories. Portia Constance Adams is a Canadian amateur detective who mysteriously inherits the 221B Baker Street townhouse in 1930

The Lady in Question (1999 film) (385 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

As in the previous film Murder in a Small Town, Wilder plays the amateur detective Larry "Cash" Carter. It was broadcast by A&E on December 12, 1999

Shaggy Rogers (4,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

one of the main characters in the Scooby-Doo franchise. He is an amateur detective, and the long-time best friend of his lovable dog, Scooby-Doo. Shaggy

Salute the Toff (novel) (92 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Creasey. It is the sixth in his long-running featuring the gentleman amateur detective The Toff. In 1952 it was made into a British film of the same title

Banditti of the Prairie (2,628 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

George Davenport, the namesake of Davenport, Iowa. Edward Bonney, an amateur detective who hunted down and brought to justice the killers, wrote of his exploits

Scooby-Doo (character) (4,346 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Hanna-Barbera. He is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. He features

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (2,994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the US under the title The Mirror Crack'd. The story features amateur detective Miss Marple solving a mystery in St. Mary Mead. Jane Marple falls

The Toff Goes to Market (96 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Creasey. It was the eighth in his long-running featuring the gentleman amateur detective The Toff. It was one of a number of novels produced in the era that

Andrew Johnson (actor) (116 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Johnson moved to Hollywood, where he achieved minor roles in the amateur detective series Murder She Wrote and later in the ITV drama, Inspector Morse

Trent's Last Case (novel) (1,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

fact the first work in which its central character, the artist and amateur detective Philip Trent, appears: he subsequently reappeared in the novel Trent's

Gervase Fen (764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gervase Fen is a fictional amateur detective and Oxford Professor of English Language and Literature created by Edmund Crispin. Fen appears in nine novels

Arnold Schuster (716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(February 21, 1928 – March 8, 1952) was an American clothing salesman and amateur detective known for his involvement in the capture of bank robber Willie "The

Cozy mystery (1,820 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

well have long-standing social relationships with, each other. The amateur detective is usually a gregarious, well-liked individual who is able to get

Death at the Opera (160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was the fifth novel in her series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It was published in the United States under the alternative

Detective (1,908 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

governed by a code of conduct. A citizen detective, also known as an amateur detective, is an individual who devotes his or her time and expertise to aid

Death and the Maiden (novel) (112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

twentieth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Near Winchester in Hampshire, a water nymph is reported

Nancy Drew: Tomb of the Lost Queen (603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during a fierce sandstorm and sent to the hospital to recover. As an amateur detective, Nancy attempts to discover who attacked Professor Boyle as well as

Grant Michaels (160 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the 1990s, centering on Stan Kraychik, a gay hairdresser turned amateur detective. All six novels were shortlisted Lambda Literary Award finalists in

A Beautiful Blue Death (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

novel in a series of mysteries featuring Victorian gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox. The novel, set in 1865 London, follows Charles Lenox

Jack Moyles (453 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1973) was an American actor best known for starring as cafe owner/amateur detective Rocky Jordan in the CBS radio serials A Man Named Jordan and The Adventures

Father Brown (3,862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Father Brown is a fictional Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. He is featured in 53 short stories by English author G. K. Chesterton, published

The September Society (234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Victorian era. It is the second novel in a series featuring gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox, and the first of two books Finch has written about

Say It with Flowers (novel) (111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Two Bohemians set out to find Roman era remains in the

The Devil's Elbow (118 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fourth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The novel takes its name from a geographical feature

Barbara Neely (1,484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

protagonist Blanche White, a middle-aged mother, domestic worker and amateur detective. The Mystery Writers of America named her their 2020 Grand Master

Watson's Choice (97 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eight in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The wealthy Sir Bohun Chantrey hosts a party to celebrate

Come Away, Death (novel) (167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

eighth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Although the plot revolves around Greek Mythology, the

Mehmet Murat Somer (694 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hop-Çiki-Yaya series set in Istanbul and featuring an unnamed transvestite amateur detective. Somer was born in Ankara but moved to Istanbul in 1982, after graduating

The Dancing Druids (124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

twenty-first in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs. Bradley. The title refers to a group of prehistoric stones whose

Merlin's Furlong (108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entry in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Three seemingly unconnected deaths in and near the rural

It's a Crime, Mr. Collins (382 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Richard Denning, whom listeners had heard from 1952 to 1954 as amateur detective Jerry North in the radio version of Mr. and Mrs. North. Kramer had

Sophia Bennett (590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

series of adult mysteries featuring Queen Elizabeth II as a secret amateur detective, assisted by a fictional assistant private secretary of Nigerian heritage

Philo Vance (3,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Philo Vance is a fictional amateur detective originally featured in 12 crime novels by S. S. Van Dine in the 1920s and 1930s. During that time, Vance

Come Away, Death (novel) (167 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

eighth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Although the plot revolves around Greek Mythology, the

Nancy Drew: Alibi in Ashes (962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the culprit. Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. Nancy

The Saltmarsh Murders (120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fourth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It has been highly acclaimed as a part of the Golden

Faintley Speaking (111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seventh in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. An overhead phone conversation from a Miss Faintley draws

The Rising of the Moon (novel) (165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

eighteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It has been described as one of the best of Mitchell's

Elizabeth Daly (491 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character, Henry Gamadge, was a bookish author, bibliophile, and amateur detective. A writer of light verse and prose for Life, Puck, and Scribner's

Printer's Error (149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

tenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. A small publishers agrees to print an anti-Semitic work

Manorama Six Feet Under (1,506 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

lead roles. The film released on 21 September 2007. It follows an amateur detective in a small sleepy town from Rajasthan who finds himself caught in

Death of a Delft Blue (139 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. While attending a conference in the Netherlands, Mrs

Groaning Spinney (143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

third in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It was later republished under the title of Murder in

Robert Ancelin (600 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christian-Jaque (short film) as the amateur detective 1933 : L'Empreinte sanglante by Jean Mamy (short film) as the amateur detective 1933 : Deux blondes by Jean

Tom Brown's Body (164 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

second in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The title refers to both the novel Tom Brown's School

Alice Arisugawa (923 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Masahide Uehara (上原正英, Uehara Masahide, born April 26, 1959), mainly known by his pseudonym Alice Arisugawa (有栖川有栖, Arisugawa Arisu), is a Japanese mystery

When Last I Died (149 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

thirteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. In a review in The Observer, Maurice Richardson described

The Case of the Gilded Fly (897 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

debut novel, the book contains the first appearance of eccentric amateur detective Gervase Fen, Professor of English Language and Literature at the University

The Croaking Raven (163 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The title is taken from a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet

The Great Merlini (400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

detective created by Clayton Rawson. He is a professional magician and amateur detective, who appears in four locked room or impossible crime novels written

Brazen Tongue (96 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eleventh in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. During the early months of the Second World War in the

Bodies in a Bookshop (130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Campbell. It was one of several novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs. In a bookshop in a bohemian quarter just off

The Worsted Viper (143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fifteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Bradley was one of a number of investigators active during

Adders on the Heath (83 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The fierce rivalry between two running clubs appears

My Father Sleeps (120 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seventeenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It is set in the Western Highlands of Scotland. While

Laurels are Poison (231 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fourteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It was Mitchell's own favourite among her novels and

Hangman's Curfew (119 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

twelfth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. While in Northumberland on a walking holiday a friend

The Nodding Canaries (127 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The title refers to the tradition of keeping canaries

The Longer Bodies (123 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

third in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. In order to see which her relatives deserves to inherit

My Bones Will Keep (100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. While accompanying her friend Dame Beatrice Bradley to

The Twenty-Third Man (141 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Dame Beatrice Bradley is on holiday in the Canary Islands

The Body in the Library (3,344 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

at seven shillings and sixpence. The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple. The novel concerns the murders of two girls of outwardly

Magic Island (radio series) (573 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

first presented in 1935. He also produced "Si and Elmer", a hayseed amateur detective serial, while there in 1932. He was with San Diego station KBD just

St Peter's Finger (195 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ninth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Mrs Bradley is called in to investigate a suspicious

The Long Shadow (Gilbert novel) (132 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Malleson. It is the seventh of ten novels in a series featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation

Dead Men's Morris (146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seventh in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It was the first to be published by Michael Joseph who

Spotted Hemlock (174 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It has been considered one of Mitchell's best novels

The Death Cap (126 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Campbell. It was one of several novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs. After a young woman belonging to a Bohemian

The Man Who Grew Tomatoes (137 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. When Hugh Camber inherits a Norfolk country estate following

Isaac Adamson (235 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

series of mystery novels set in Japan and featuring journalist and amateur detective Billy Chaka. After graduating from Rocky Mountain High School in Fort

Murder in Crown Passage (243 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Miles Burton. It is the sixteenth in a series of books featuring the amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. Street was

An Old Lady Dies (142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Malleson. It is the ninth of ten novels in a series featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation

Murder of a Chemist (178 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It is the fourteenth in a series of books featuring the Golden Age amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. Josiah Elvidge

Death at Four Corners (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Beatrice Malleson. It is the third novel in a series featuring her amateur detective Scott Egerton. A man in clerical clothing is found shot dead near

The Body on the Beam (163 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Malleson. It is the sixth of ten novels in a series featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation

The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop (176 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

second in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It further established the reputation of the quick-witted

Death for Madame (161 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Campbell. It was one of several novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs. It takes the form of a closed circle of suspects

Lament for Leto (156 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

featuring Mitchell's best known character, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It is a loose sequel to the 1937 novel Come Away, Death

The Devil at Saxon Wall (228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sixth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. It was the first of a number of her books to feature

The Murder of Mrs. Davenport (150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

writer Lucy Beatrice Malleson. It was the second novel featuring her amateur detective Scott Egerton. Shortly before his marriage to a wealthy woman, Sir

Here Comes a Chopper (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

nineteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The title references a line in the nursery rhyme Oranges

The Night of the Fog (134 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Malleson. It is the fifth of ten novels in a series featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton, a precursor to her better known creation

Gert Nygårdshaug (469 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

particular known for the series of crime novels featuring the gastronomer amateur detective Fredric Drum. Nygårdshaug's writing enjoys a diverse background from

Twelve Horses and the Hangman's Noose (184 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

books featuring Mitchell's best known creation, the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. A review in The Spectator noted that the "maddening thing

The Adventures of Leonidas Witherall (261 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Boston suburb. Witherall, who resembled William Shakespeare, is an amateur detective and the accomplished author of the "popular Lieutenant Hazeltine stories

Sunset Over Soho (232 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sixteenth in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. Bradley was one of a number of investigators active during

The Prophet Murders (741 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the author’s Hop-Çiki-Yaya series about an unnamed transvestite amateur detective in Istanbul. Somer wrote “The Prophet Murders” along with two other

Swing Low, Swing Death (173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Campbell. It was the last of seven novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs. Todd planned to continue the series, with five

The Crozier Pharaohs (143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and last in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. The series stretched back to the debut novel Speedy Death

The Mystery of the Open Window (187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Beatrice Malleson. It is the fourth novel in a series featuring her amateur detective, the politician Scott Egerton. Unlike the rest of the series it was

The Tragedy at Freyne (153 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Malleson, her first novel under the pseudonym. It introduced the amateur detective Scott Egerton, who was her principal character until the creation

The Man Who Was Too Clever (146 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Malleson. It is the tenth and last in a series of novels featuring her amateur detective and politician Scott Egerton. The following year she introduced a

Johnny Fletcher (729 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

character created by Frank Gruber. Fletcher is a con-man and reluctant amateur detective. The character was the protagonist of several mystery novels published

Unholy Dying (159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

It was the first in a series of novels featuring the botanist and amateur detective Professor John Stubbs. It has been republished in 1985 and 2019 by

Claude Izner (187 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Legris is a bookseller in late 19th-century Paris who is also an amateur detective. The books were originally bestsellers in France, and are now published

Clifton Robbins (1,399 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for his series featuring Clay Harrison, a London barrister turned amateur detective, and his clerk Henry. He worked for the International Labour Organization

The Echoing Strangers (439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entry in her long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley. In a review in The Observer Maurice Richardson felt it

Missiamma (2,558 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aandipettai. As Balu and Mary fall in love, Gopal's nephew Raju (an amateur detective) learns that Mary is Gopal's missing elder daughter Mahalakshmi; she

Adventures of Kitty O'Day (217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

but with another actress playing a heroine with a different name. Amateur detective Kitty O'Day and her boyfriend are employed in a hotel. After the owner

Buried for Pleasure (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Crispin, the sixth in his series featuring the Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. As with the rest of the Fen novels, a complex Golden

Death at the Club (279 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Miles Burton. It is the fifteenth in a series of books featuring the amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. It was published

Death at Low Tide (219 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is the seventeenth in a series of books featuring the Golden Age amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. A review in

Karen Irving (200 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jewish single mother of a militant teen vegetarian, and reluctant amateur detective. Pluto Rising (1999), the first in the series, was nominated for the

Death in the Tunnel (445 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Miles Burton. It is the thirteenth in a series of books featuring the amateur detective Desmond Merrion and Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard. It was published

Murder on the Campus (300 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

enlists the help of C. Edson Hawley, respected college professor and amateur detective. Charles Starrett as Bill Bartlett Shirley Grey as Lillian Voyne J

Narabedla Ltd. (286 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

will be for aliens, on alien planets. The main character does some amateur detective work. He begins to suspect that the President of the mysterious Narabedla

Marshall Jevons (401 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

respectively. It was Breit's notion to write a mystery novel in which an amateur detective uses economic theory to solve crimes. Elzinga was enthusiastic about

The Legendary Ranger (446 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kong audiences were used to. Yuan Zhen-xia is a top class surgeon, amateur detective and martial artist with an insatiable curiosity and the moral code

The Affair at the Semiramis Hotel (786 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the events described in At the Villa Rose. Ricardo, the dilettante amateur detective, is sitting at his breakfast table in Grosvenor Square when he is

Historical mystery (2,212 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Melville Davisson Post story "The Angel of the Lord", which features amateur detective Uncle Abner in pre-American Civil War West Virginia. Barry Zeman of

Bonneyville Mills, Indiana (124 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Township, Elkhart County, Indiana. Edward Bonney, the bounty hunter and amateur detective, from Hittsboro, Essex County, New York, founded Bonneyville, Indiana

Montague Egg (876 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Montague Egg is a fictional amateur detective, who appears in eleven short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. Unlike Sayers's better-known creation, Lord Peter

Warren Dunford (262 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

novels centred on Mitchell Draper, a gay aspiring screenwriter and amateur detective plunged into unusual criminal investigations in the film industries

Chantecoq (film) (920 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Claude Mérelle, Gaston Michel and Julien Clément. It is about an amateur detective unmasking a group of German spies in France on the eve of World War

Agatha (given name) (1,824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Ronan in the 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel, Agatha Raisin, an amateur detective in the 2016 TV series based on a series of mystery novels by M.C.

Nancy Drew: Trail of the Twister (387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with a broken leg. P.G. Krolmeister, the funder of the team, sends amateur detective Nancy Drew to join the team undercover as an intern to find out who

The Thirteen Problems (9,298 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The thirteen stories feature the amateur detective Miss Marple, her nephew Raymond West, and her friend Sir Henry Clithering

Nancy Drew: The Silent Spy (533 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sleeper cell and expose the truth. Nancy Drew – She is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States and

Catherine Blake (882 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

features in Tracy Chevalier's novel Burning Bright (2007). She is an amateur detective in short stories by Keith Heller. Jack Shepherd's stage play In Lambeth

Nancy Drew: The Shattered Medallion (589 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to do with it. Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) – Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Roberta Gellis (649 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fantasies, space opera, and a mystery featuring Lucrezia Borgia as an amateur detective. Her pseudonyms included Max Daniels, Priscilla Hamilton, and Leah

The Rasp (364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reveals the murderer. Anthony Gethryn is an early example of the amateur detective, the idea of which was soon to become popular in detective fiction

List of fictional detectives (2,587 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

detectives generally fit one of four archetypes:[according to whom?] The amateur detective (Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Lord Peter Wimsey); From outside the

Nancy Drew: Labyrinth of Lies (690 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

behind the scenes? Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Ying Ye 3 Jia 1 (494 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Joe Chen, Jerry Huang and Jason Hsu. It follows the adventure of an amateur detective group in high school. It aired on TTV/SETTV from July 29 to November

Nancy Drew: The Deadly Device (774 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

up with her. Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Whodunit (2,150 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Last Case (1914) by E. C. Bentley (1875–1956). Trent, a very able amateur detective, investigates the murder of Sigsbee Manderson. He finds many important

Keith Miles (1,619 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

under his own name, featured Alan Saxon, a professional golfer-turned-amateur detective. After four books, Miles's publisher did not wish to continue the

Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice (614 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the ringleader of the crimes. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy (663 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

before the threats turn deadly. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: The Haunting of Castle Malloy (616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

groom and save this wedding. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness (620 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Darkness! Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Siri Sampadalu (728 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Madhu, the son of Bhujangam. Garataiah's son AK Mar / Anand Kumar, an amateur detective, is their fellow. Destiny makes Prasad the bestie of Madhu & Anand

Katy Kurtzman (324 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the NBC pilot Allison Sydney Harrison with Ted Danson, playing an amateur detective. She played Nettie in episode 21 (The Scavengers) of How the West

Feature Comics (526 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(June 1942) to #72 (June 1943). Stunt Man Stetson: a story about an amateur detective in Hollywood was the lead from #140 until #144. Koolman, Mike; Amash

The Greek Coffin Mystery (545 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Queen of the New York City Police Force's Homicide Squad and his amateur detective son Ellery are called in, Ellery narrows down the possible location

Tabard (1,388 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the Peace of Versailles from the steps of St James's Palace. The amateur detective Philip Trent is able to point out that it in fact bears the post-1837

Nancy Drew: Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon (677 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jake Hurley's disappearance. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

The Silent Passenger (419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and return him to England by the next ferry. Fortunately for Ryder, amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey (Peter Haddon), who already suspected Windermere

Mrs Bradley (726 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

she is a consultant for the Home Office, and she also acts as an amateur detective. Mrs Bradley lives in the village of Wandles Parva, located in the

The Man They Couldn't Arrest (136 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

made by Gainsborough Pictures at Islington Studios in London. An amateur detective goes on the trail of a gang of violent criminals. Hugh Wakefield as

Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island (710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Deception Island's hidden secrets. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Lupin (Philippine TV series) (489 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

century, Lupin is a gentleman thief, a master of disguise, and an amateur detective. While operating on the wrong side of the law, he is still a force

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel (1,016 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from the game's official site. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

The Judas Window (413 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

for the murder of Hume, and he is being defended by barrister and amateur detective Sir Henry Merrivale. We learn that Hume has set the actions of the

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1913 film) (214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Emile Chautard and Maurice Tourneur and starring Marcel Simon as the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. It was the first film adaptation of the 1908

The Case of the Constant Suicides (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sealed and inaccessible rooms. Gideon Fell – medical doctor and amateur detective, protagonist Dr. Alan Campbell (M.A. Oxon, Ph.D. Harvard) – professor

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull (853 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

falls into the wrong hands. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Old Clock (764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

chases, and plenty of adventure. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: Danger by Design (692 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the shadows of her studio? Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Trent's Last Case (1929 film) (253 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Film Company. A leading financier is found dead at his home, leading amateur detective Philip Trent to investigate the case. Raymond Griffith as Philip Trent

Nancy Drew: The Captive Curse (824 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

next victim. Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) – Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

The Saint in New York (film) (981 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and recruit Simon Templar (Louis Hayward), the "Saint", a British amateur detective with a reputation for dealing with criminals outside the law. The

In the Next Room (478 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

murdered with poison. Eventually, Godfrey, assuming the role of an amateur detective, clears up the mystery. Jack Mulhall as James Godfrey Alice Day as

Kogorō (106 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

ambassador Fictional characters: Kogoro Akechi (明智小五郎), fictional amateur detective created by Edogawa Rampo Kogoro Mouri (毛利小五郎), fictional private

Nancy Drew: The Creature of Kapu Cave (724 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

team up to solve the mystery. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

The Fisherman's Granddaughter (369 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Peggy's Camping Party The Wooing of Miles Standish Nature Fakirs The Amateur Detective The Red Man's Way Chinese Slave Smuggling The Spring Gun Nathan Hale

Eille Norwood (745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

other roles, he toured in 1909 as Raffles in a stage version of the amateur detective. He made his film debut in 1911. He directed the successful production

Nancy Drew: Ransom of the Seven Ships (830 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

treasure before time runs out? Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: The Final Scene (962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

is demolished in three days. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Montague (503 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Johnny Test) the mouse, a cartoon character Montague Egg, a fictional amateur detective Dr. John Montague, one of the main characters in Gothic horror novel

Hot Snow (The Avengers) (1,045 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

finally caught in the next episode. Keel decides he enjoys playing amateur detective and decides to form a duo with Steed. Ian Hendry as Dr. David H. Keel

Nancy Drew: Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake (889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

amid rumors of buried gold. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective who was asked by a friend of her father's to help solve a case in

Nancy Drew: Secret of the Scarlet Hand (951 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Beech Hill from financial ruin. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: The Secret of Shadow Ranch (873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

befall whoever sets eyes on it. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: Shadow at the Water's Edge (940 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

haunting the inn. Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) – Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Nancy Drew: Ghost of Thornton Hall (1,129 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

family secrets? Nancy Drew (Lani Minella) - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Busman's Honeymoon (film) (524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Robert Newton and Seymour Hicks as Mervyn Bunter. Newly married amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, mystery writer Harriet Vane, are looking

The Adventure of the Wrong Santa Claus (94 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Christmas presents. Amateur detective Octavius decides to catch him and recover the stolen things. Barry O'Moore - Octavius, the Amateur Detective Julian Reed

Busman's Honeymoon (film) (524 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Robert Newton and Seymour Hicks as Mervyn Bunter. Newly married amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife, mystery writer Harriet Vane, are looking

Girl detective (genre) (861 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1909. But the earliest published version of a girl sought out as an amateur detective appears in the story collection The Golden Slipper and Other Problems

Strong Poison (1,217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

victim in Whose Body? Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, aristocrat and amateur detective Harriet Vane – protagonist, author of detective fiction Philip Boyes

Naked (book) (490 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

television shows such as The Fugitive, and David undertakes some amateur detective work. Dix Hill David volunteers at the Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh

Paul Temple Returns (451 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

leaving a calling card signed "The Marquess". Aspiring novelist and amateur detective Paul Temple and his wife Steve are called in to investigate. An ancient

The Grey Glove (574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Australian silent film based on a newspaper serial by E. V. Timms. An amateur detective, John Courtney, tries to catch a mysterious criminal who always leaves

Mandrake (disambiguation) (358 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

character from the Bartimaeus Trilogy Paolo Mandrake, the lawyer and amateur detective who is the protagonist of stories by Rubem Fonseca, and basis for

Equinox (1992 film) (374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and owed a large sum of inheritance money. Sonya decides to play amateur detective and track them down. It all leads to a confrontation between the surprised

Noose for a Lady (431 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner. The plot concerns an amateur detective Simon Gale (Price) who races against time to clear the name of his

SOKO Kitzbühel (323 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

rich and powerful, common in the resort town. Kofler's father is an amateur detective who often joins the investigations. Produced primarily for a German

The Hollow Needle (520 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lupin is opposed this time by Isidore Beautrelet, a young but gifted amateur detective, who is still in high school but who is poised to give Arsène Lupin

Charlotte Elkins (414 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

realized a novice pro golfer would make an interesting protagonist in an amateur detective novel and Lee Ofsted was born. A Wicked Slice was published in 1989

Albany (London) (1,658 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World (1912), and Roger Sheringham, the amateur detective in the works of Anthony Berkeley Cox who first appeared in The Layton

Nancy Drew: Treasure in the Royal Tower (956 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

way into the Queen's tower. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Pigeon English (419 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

live in Ghana, though they hope to move in the future. He becomes an amateur detective and tries to solve the murder of a boy who was murdered outside of

Nancy Drew: Curse of Blackmoor Manor (1,170 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hidden away for generations. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Postern of Fate (1,652 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

positive in his review: "Now in their seventies, the Beresfords, that amateur detective couple of hers whom some of us found too sprightly for comfort, have

Enter the Drag Dragon (389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

martial arts, comedy", the film centres on Crunch, a drag queen and amateur detective in Ottawa who is drawn into a strange criminal underworld of construction

Gideon Fell (653 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Fictional English amateur detective

Recurring characters in the Hercule Poirot stories (950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

perfect filing system. She once worked for the government agent-turned-amateur detective and philanthropist, Mr (James) Parker Pyne. Whether this was during

Robert H. Birch (895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Cavalry. Robert Birch claimed to have been born in New York, but amateur detective, Edward Bonney alleged, that Birch's father, John "Old Coon" Birch

Jack Vance (5,895 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'locked-room' murder mystery featuring a strong-willed young woman as the amateur detective. Bird Isle, a mystery set at a hotel on an island off the California

Suffrajitsu: Mrs. Pankhurst's Amazons (1,005 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Mrs. Pankhurst's getaway driver and chauffeuse. Judith Lee: an amateur detective and expert lip-reader of Anglo-Chinese descent (adapted from the early

20th-century French literature (2,733 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"locked-room puzzle" -- The Mystery of the Yellow Room, featuring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille (1908) -- and the immensely popular The Phantom

Not So Long Ago (536 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Peggy's Camping Party The Wooing of Miles Standish Nature Fakirs The Amateur Detective The Red Man's Way Chinese Slave Smuggling The Spring Gun Nathan Hale

Missamma (4,510 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

deteriorate due to mismanagement by Gopalam's nephew A. K. Raju, an amateur detective. This is exacerbated by Panthulu, an ayurvedic doctor and teacher

The Mandarin Mystery (196 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ellery Queen. Eddie Quillan as Ellery Queen, a mystery writer and amateur detective Charlotte Henry as Josephine Temple Rita La Roy as Martha Kirk Wade

The Monster (1925 film) (1,450 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Johnny has just graduated from crime school, receiving a diploma as an amateur detective. Amos and Johnny both work at the general store in Danburg. They are

Locked-room mystery (2,063 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

from May 1973 through January 2008. Hoch's protagonist is a gifted amateur detective who uses pure brainpower to solve his cases. The French writer Paul

1906 (novel) (1,616 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

murder. After his death, his son Hunter, a Stanford graduate and amateur detective, steps up to accept his father's mission. Hunter's brother Christian

The Wychford Poisoning Case (1,159 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Collins Sons & Co. It is the second published novel to feature the amateur detective Roger Sheringham, by profession a successful novelist. Like the first

Have His Carcase (1,030 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

term habeas corpus. Lord Peter Wimsey: protagonist, aristocratic amateur detective Miss Harriet Vane: protagonist, detective novelist with whom Wimsey

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (990 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that Robert is now courting Ann. Lord Peter Wimsey – aristocratic amateur detective; Bellona Club member Detective-Inspector Charles Parker – Wimsey's

Compromising Positions (415 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

number of possibilities. Suarez is determined to solve the case before amateur detective Judith beats him to it. Susan Sarandon as Judith Singer Raul Julia

List of Case Closed characters (12,745 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Aoyama. The series takes place in modern-day Japan and follows an amateur detective Jimmy Kudo (Japanese name: Shinichi Kudo) who solves cases in an episodic

Thrones, Dominations (1,875 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

relationship with her own husband. Lord Peter Wimsey – Aristocratic amateur detective in his mid-forties. The younger son of a duke, his wealth comes largely

Susan Moody (475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

creative writing courses in England, France, Australia, and Denmark. Amateur detective Penny is a beautiful 6-ft black photographer, daughter of a UN Ambassador

Peterkin (surname) (230 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

satyr in Scrambled Eggs, a 1939 film Eric Peterkin, the half-Chinese amateur detective in the novel A Gentleman's Murder by Christopher Huang, 2018 Surname

Nancy Drew Dossier: Resorting to Danger (1,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

run across the screen. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an eighteen-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Allan Pinkerton (3,214 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jones Brown (under the pseudonym David Frome), were about Welsh-born amateur detective Evan Pinkerton and may have been inspired by the slang term. Pinkerton

The Purloined Letter (2,168 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and newspapers. The unnamed narrator is with the famous Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin when they are joined by G—, prefect of the Paris

Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion (1,404 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

reservations for her bed and breakfast. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Murder Must Advertise (1,412 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

walks home. Lord Peter Wimsey, 42, alias Death Bredon, aristocratic amateur detective Chief Inspector Charles Parker, Wimsey's friend, married to his sister

Night in New Orleans (516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bill's prime suspect. Both report to Dan Odell, their chief. Ethel, an amateur detective, investigates on her own while her husband's under suspicion. The

Speedy Death (112 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1998 television series The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. Psychoanalyst and amateur detective Mrs Bradley investigates the case of a famous explorer who has died

R. W. R. McDonald (911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

babysitting Uncle Pike and his boyfriend Devon, who together form a secret amateur detective club "The Nancys" to try and solve Tippy's teacher's murder in her

Zamindar (1966 film) (603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and they fall in love. Next, Saroja's maternal uncle Hanumanthu, an amateur detective, considers it a fact and introduces Seshu as Zamindar to family members

Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger (1,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

issue released on April 3, 1999. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

Zamindar (1966 film) (603 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

and they fall in love. Next, Saroja's maternal uncle Hanumanthu, an amateur detective, considers it a fact and introduces Seshu as Zamindar to family members

Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (1917 film) (800 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

threatens to expose him, but he laughs at her. George Bedford (Perry), an amateur detective, declares that he will find the thief responsible for the Melrose

Busman's Honeymoon (1,551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

neighbour's garden. Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, an aristocratic amateur detective Harriet Vane, Lady Peter Wimsey – protagonist, a mystery writer, wife

Ellery Queen (6,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

retired from the stage due to deafness and is now often consulted as an amateur detective. The novels also feature Inspector Thumm (initially as a member of

Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill (1,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the events of the next game. Nancy Drew - Nancy is an 18-year-old amateur detective from the fictional town of River Heights in the United States. She

John Lyons (actor) (541 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

2015 and 2016, Lyons toured the UK in a stage adaptation of the BBC amateur detective series, Father Brown. He is, also, a regular performer in Pantomime

Provaci ancora prof! (1,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

teacher that often finds herself involved in some crimes. Camilla, an amateur detective, collaborates with policemen to resolve these cases and in the meantime

Montefiore Cemetery (843 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rebbe Arnold Schuster (1927–1952), Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective Aryeh Leib Schochet (1845–1928), rabbi Sholom Secunda (1894–1974)

Chantabbai (1,069 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

acquired a cult status over the years. Panduranga "Pandu" Rao is an amateur detective employed at Universal Detective Agency in Visakhapatnam, which is

Alison Gordon (481 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mystery novels focusing on Kate Henry, a female sports reporter and amateur detective investigating murders in the professional baseball world. Gordon died

To the Nines (novel) (995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

weeks, peaking at number 2. Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter and amateur detective, who with a combination of luck and intuition usually gets the job

Ricco Ross (360 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Hidden in the Woods Ricco 2015 Story of Eva Detective Grind A Gifted Amateur Detective Savino Short Batgirl Rises The Riddler Short Family Times Jasmine's

Gaudy Night (1,448 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a mystery writer Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, an aristocratic amateur detective Letitia Martin – Dean of Shrewsbury College Helen de Vine – new Research

The Seven Dials Mystery (2,341 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Chimneys. Lady Eileen "Bundle" Brent: his daughter and a sometime amateur detective. Superintendent Battle: from Scotland Yard. Alfred: former footman

Curzoner Kalom (251 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

this pen which was lost later from the zamindar's family. Papu, an amateur detective, and her boyfriend Tutu decide to find the pen from a hidden place

Mary McCarthy (screenwriter) (299 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

1936 comedy starring Irene Dunne. Curley (1947) Sister Kenny (1946) Amateur Detective (1939) Life Returns (1935) "Irish Mary McCarthy Does Unpredictable

Denial (novel) (285 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

novel has two mysteries. Lew, a process server and an occasional amateur detective, is investigating two separate cases. The first involves a nursing

Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett (551 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

(1881) Cassandra (1884) Pharisees Unveiled: The Adventures of an Amateur Detective (1889) New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future (1889) A Young Stowaway

Gaston Leroux (2,083 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1907; English title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room), starring the amateur detective Joseph Rouletabille. Leroux's contribution to French detective fiction

Graf Yoster (394 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

before entering the count's employ. Graf Yoster was very much an amateur detective in the tradition of Dorothy Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey. His cases were

At Bertram's Hotel (2,188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not let her get away with the murder. Miss Marple: older woman and amateur detective who resides in St Mary Mead; here she is on holiday in London. Mr

Sam Benady (770 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

seven novels set in 18th and 19th century Gibraltar featuring the amateur detective Giovanni Bresciano, co-authored with Mary Chiappe. His latest project

Miss Marple (3,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

woman) In-universe information Gender Female Title Miss Occupation Amateur detective Family Raymond West (nephew) David West (great-nephew) Lionel West

Lego Scooby-Doo (2,988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

city. Scooby-Doo: He is a male Great Dane and lifelong companion of amateur detective Shaggy Rogers, with whom he shares many personality traits. He features

Anthony Gethryn (357 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

MacDonald's murder mysteries, written between 1924 and 1959. He is an amateur detective who works closely with the police to pursue criminals. In Macdonald's

Counterfeit United States currency (1,693 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Indiana, who escaped to Nauvoo, Illinois, was a bounty hunter and amateur detective, posed as a counterfeiter, to apprehend the murderers of Colonel George

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (747 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides

Just Off Broadway (1924 film) (329 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

between Jean and Stephen, who is not a crook but is a millionaire amateur detective. John Gilbert as Stephen Moore Marian Nixon as Jean Lawrence Trilby

Robert P. Kerr (339 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Guest of Honor (1925) [Director] The Wrestler (1925) [Director] The Amateur Detective (1925) [Director] Honeymoon, Ltd. (1925) [Director]... aka "The Honeymoon

The Fleet Street Murders (387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the third novel in the Charles Lenox series. While gentleman and amateur detective Charles Lenox is celebrating his engagement to his best friend and

Sandman (Wesley Dodds) (3,574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

retcon. The visions haunt Dodds, who uses his keen intellect and amateur detective skills to properly interpret them. He is also a talented chemist and

Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere (7,036 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and apparently hits Pillingshot. Pillingshot finds the path of an amateur detective to be a difficult one, until one morning he is suddenly jaunty. Scott

Anthony Berkeley Cox (1,032 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

published anonymously in 1925. It introduced Roger Sheringham, the amateur detective who features in many of the author's novels including the classic

Little Dorrit (TV series) (2,254 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

responsible for the Dorrits' misfortunes and asks rent collector and amateur detective, Mr. Pancks, to investigate. Chivery proposes to Amy, who declines

Willie Sutton (1,873 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by Arnold Schuster, a 24-year-old Brooklyn clothing salesman and amateur detective. Schuster later appeared on television and described how he had assisted

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America it was released on Star+. The series follows Darby Hart, an amateur detective who gets invited by a reclusive billionaire to a retreat at a remote

Marisha Pessl (928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

appeared to be a high-school tale spatchcocked on to the story of an amateur detective is seen to be a ground-laying exercise of immense skill." Pessl's

Monsieur Lecoq (novel) (2,892 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

success with L’Affaire Lerouge, serialised in 1865, which featured the amateur detective, Tabaret, who recurs in his later novels. Gaboriau then went on to

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Spiritual Journey." She also wrote three cozy mystery novels featuring amateur detective Francesca Bibbo. These are Death in the Choir, Death of a Liturgist

As Simple as Snow (416 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

unanswered questions. Determined to find Anna, the narrator turns amateur detective in order to piece together the elements of the preceding months. Soon

Tom Conway (3,133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

three popular "B" movies as The Falcon, eligible man-about-town and amateur detective, constantly being accused of crimes and using his wits to trap the

Unnatural Death (novel) (1,474 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

total solar eclipse. Lord Peter Wimsey – protagonist, aristocratic amateur detective Detective-Inspector Charles Parker – Wimsey's friend Mervyn Bunter

Gene Wilder (5,556 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

cowritten by Wilder, in which he played a theater director turned amateur detective. Three years later, Wilder guest-starred on two episodes of NBC's

Ned (Pushing Daisies) (1,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Fuller Portrayed by Lee Pace Field Cate (young Ned) In-universe information Nickname The Pie Maker Gender Male Occupation Pie maker, amateur detective

Santa Claus in film (2,915 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In this film, a bogus Santa steals all the Christmas presents and amateur detective Octavius (played by Herbert Yost) tries to recover them. The most

Ellery Queen (TV series) (950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

set on New Year's Eve of 1946) the show revolved around author and amateur detective Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton), a bachelor who lives with his widowed father

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set in the 1930s about Rowland Sinclair, the gentleman artist-cum-amateur-detective. The first in the series, A Few Right Thinking Men was shortlisted

Chapter 1: Homme Fatale (1,837 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

America it was released on Star+. The series follows Darby Hart, an amateur detective who gets invited by a reclusive billionaire to a retreat at a remote

Ellery Queen (TV series) (950 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

set on New Year's Eve of 1946) the show revolved around author and amateur detective Ellery Queen (Jim Hutton), a bachelor who lives with his widowed father

1927 in literature (3,400 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

house Victor Gollancz Ltd. December – Agatha Christie's fictional amateur detective Miss Marple makes a first appearance in "The Tuesday Night Club",

Mary Daheim (734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

personal favorite, mysteries. The "Bed & Breakfast" series featuring amateur detective Judith McMonigle (later Flynn) was published beginning in 1991. The

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(1907) The Wooing of Miles Standish (1907) Nature Fakirs (1907) The Amateur Detective (1907) The Red Man's Way (1907) Chinese Slave Smuggling (1907) The

Diana Rigg (5,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

an Emmy, as well as the PBS production Moll Flanders, and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in The Mrs Bradley Mysteries. In this BBC series, first

Al Roker (3,994 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

beginning in 2009 that feature Billy Blessing, a celebrity chef turned amateur detective. The second book in the series, The Midnight Show Murders (2010),

Tetsuya Ayukawa (529 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

he launched another mystery series, in which the protagonist is an amateur detective who is also a bartender in the Ginza district of Tokyo. In 1990, the

Misa Yamamura (2,347 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

novels cast with Momiji Yamamura. Her most enduring character was amateur detective Catherine Turner, the Japanophilic daughter of a fictional Vice President

A Stranger in Mayfair (181 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

fourth novel in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Lenox, gentleman amateur detective, has recently married and has been elected to Parliament. Although

While the Patient Slept (novel) (311 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

second of the seven Eberhart books featuring nurse Sarah Keate as an amateur detective. Regarding other characters, historian Rick Cypert cites effete antagonist

Kottan ermittelt (999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(Florian Böhm). Later on, Kottan's mother (Gusti Wolf), a passionate amateur detective, moves in with them, building an ever-deepening alliance with her

The Moonstone (3,564 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

She idolizes Godfrey Ablewhite Franklin Blake is an adventurer and amateur detective. He is also a cousin and suitor of Rachel. It is established that

Blowup (4,313 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

park contain evidence of a murder. As Thomas persists in his role as amateur detective, his quest leads him initially to question his technical mastery over

James Sallis (1,351 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

crime writing Lew Griffin series Lew Griffin is an African-American amateur detective, functioning alcoholic, sometime teacher and novelist. In The Long-Legged

Francis Duncan (writer) (551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

a former tobacconist and lover of romance novels who dabbles in amateur detective work, have now been reprinted. The Hand of Justice (1936) The League

The Immaterial Murder Case (173 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

body turns up in one of the artworks, Wilson calls in his cousin the amateur detective Teak Woode who proves to be rather incompetent when compared to the

Tintin (character) (5,611 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

created the character Joseph Rouletabille, a young journalist and amateur detective. Marcel Priollet [fr] wrote a series of adventures in 1910 titled

Nell Hudson (1,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Laughland. In 2016, Hudson was featured in a series one episode of Sky1's amateur detective series Agatha Raisin, based upon the book series by MC Beaton. Hudson

Dorothy L. Sayers (13,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Sayers's series of detective novels, Whose Body?, featured her amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey. She had begun writing it before joining Benson's

Jim Hutton (2,862 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Period of Adjustment, but agreed to do it for the role of fictional amateur detective Ellery Queen in the 1975 made-for-television movie and 1975–1976 television

Dalrymple (name) (865 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

of NBC in the sitcom Seinfeld The Honourable Daisy Dalrymple, an amateur detective in the book series by author Carola Dunn Burgundy Dalrymple, a fictional

John Lutz (mystery writer) (576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

crime caper, police procedural, espionage, historical, futuristic, amateur detective, thriller; virtually every mystery sub-genre. He was the author of

A Death in the Small Hours (218 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Lenox, gentleman and former amateur detective, is now a prominent Member of the House of Commons. When selected

Donald Bain (writer) (590 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. Tender Loving Care – byline: Joni Moura & Jackie

Jane (given name) (2,408 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Miss Marple (first name Jane), an amateur detective created by Agatha Christie Jane Porter, the sweetheart of Tarzan Jayne

The New Bob Cummings Show (550 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In addition to his activities as a charter pilot, Carson was an amateur detective, a fact which provided the basis for the plots of most of the episodes

Émile Gaboriau (1,111 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

translations of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, this work introduced an amateur detective and a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero

The Glass Key (2,671 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

depart, not enemies but no longer friends. Ned Beaumont — gambler and amateur detective who finds Taylor Henry's body Paul Madvig — crooked political boss

Imagination Theatre (3,972 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Darnborough Investigates (2005–2015, 3 episodes, starring David Natale as amateur detective Freddie Darnborough and Gary Schwartz as his valet Cecil), Phoenix

Melrose Plant (488 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of Mischief Created by Martha Grimes Portrayed by Götz Schubert In-universe information Gender Male Occupation Amateur detective Nationality British

List of Arthur characters (10,487 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

He has asthma, is obsessed with aliens, loves telling jokes, is an amateur detective, practices gardening, and plays the tuba. He is an only child whose

A Murder Is Announced (3,710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

A Murder Is Announced. Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster and amateur detective. Inspector Dermot Craddock, lead detective on the case. Sir Henry

1930 in literature (4,090 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Murder at the Vicarage, the first full-length novel to feature her amateur detective Miss Marple, appears in the U.K. in the Collins Crime Club series

The Writer with No Hands (710 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

subsequent manhunt remained unsuccessful until July 1998 when an amateur detective located fragments of DeVore's car next to the California Aqueduct

Joachim Fuchsberger (1,964 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1959 film Der Frosch mit der Maske (The Frog with the Mask) playing amateur detective Richard Gordon. More than 3.2 million visitors saw the movie in the

Lambik (1,194 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sprietatoom ("The Tiny Atom") (1946) where he introduces himself as an amateur detective and part-time plumber. In later stories Lambik sometimes performs

How to Make a Monster (1958 film) (1,377 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

his 1958 Lincoln convertible. Next day, studio guard Monahan, an amateur detective, stops in at the make-up room. He shows Pete and Rivero, Pete's make-up

Shelton Williams (688 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In February 2018, Williams published "Covey Jencks," a fictional amateur detective novel based in Odessa. "Covey and JayJay Get Educated" and "The Chinese

Carland Cross (TV series) (884 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

teenager is angry and feisty, he is considered a promising young amateur detective with a heart of gold. His essential function in the series is to seek

Adrian Hyland (275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Melbourne University. In the first novel, Diamond Dove, she is an amateur detective, but by the second, Gunshot Road, she is employed as an Aboriginal

Police procedural (10,067 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and, to get around thorny legal problems, Creasey gave West an "amateur detective" friend who was able to perform the extra-procedural acts that West

Something's Afoot (1,606 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Grande Dame" Colonel Gillweather – "The old army man" Miss Tweed – "The tweedy, elderly amateur detective" Geoffrey – "The juvenile; the uninvited guest"

Oh! Those Bells (810 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

— and must match wits with both a snooping Mrs. Stansfield and an amateur detective to keep them from discovering the chimpanzee. 8 "The Wallet" April 26

Flâneur (3,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

flâneur as the essential figure of the modern urban spectator, an amateur detective and investigator of the city. More than this, his flâneur was a sign

A Burial at Sea (228 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in the Charles Lenox series. Charles Lenox, gentleman and former amateur detective, is now a Member of Parliament, and his wife is expecting their first

Susan Dunlap (598 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Northern California. Her series feature radically different heroines (amateur detective, police officer and licensed private detective) from three different

Counterfeit money (5,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Indiana who escaped to Nauvoo, Illinois, was a bounty hunter and amateur detective who posed as a counterfeiter to apprehend the murderers of Colonel

Mervyn Bunter (2,155 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1987) In-universe information Gender Male Occupation Valet Assistant amateur detective, Former WWI NCO Family Meredith Bunter (brother) Six other siblings

The Lottery of Life (877 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

York, Terence O'Halloran, who leaves a life of crime to become an amateur detective. His nemesis is the anti-Semitic depiction of counterfeiter Mordie

Lord Peter Wimsey (5,387 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

name Peter Death Bredon Wimsey Gender Male Occupation Aristocrat, amateur detective, army officer Family Mortimer Wimsey, 15th Duke of Denver (father)

Cai Ming (actress) (352 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article

Biography of Sister Ma 马大姐新传 Sister Ma 2008 清明上河 guest Guo Da The Amateur Detective 业余侦探 Yang Xia Get Knocked Up 好孕来临 Dandan's mother 2009 Superman: Sister

Tōru Nakane (957 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Shintōhō Eiga studio, where he was cast as a tabloid editor who plays amateur detective to catch a serial killer slasher. Later that same year, in November

Magic Kaito (3,702 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Metropolitan Police's Superintendent-General. Renowned across Europe as an amateur detective, he takes an interest in capturing Kaito Kid and resettles in Japan

Catwoman (11,065 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

streetwalkers in a mask, bustier, and fishnets and occasionally works with amateur detective Bruce Wayne. The Joker attacks and paralyzes her, much like he does

Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (4,824 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Times commented "Just when you thought that all variations of the amateur-detective genre had been explored, along comes Miss Phryne Fisher, who sashays

The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1,370 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

force if necessary. Joseph Rouletabille – the young journalist and amateur detective, protagonist Jean Sainclair – Rouletabille's friend and lawyer, the

Robert Donston Stephenson (1,242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

story to George Marsh, an ironmongery salesman professing to be an amateur detective. George Marsh, on his side, found Stephenson to be the more suspicious

William James Royce (889 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Murder, She Wrote starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher. Theatre William Royce's first full-length play as

Fredric Drum (480 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Michelin-starred restaurant in Oslo named Kasserollen, a cryptographer, and an amateur detective with a strong sense of curiosity. His adventures frequently take place

Herbert Yost (4,722 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in 1914, when he starred in a dozen comedy shorts portraying the "amateur detective" Octavius. Characterized as a wealthy young man and a "gentle and

The Saint (Simon Templar) (6,475 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Saint Sebastian Tombs Sugarman Treacle Gender Male Occupation Thief, amateur detective, occasional British intelligence agent, occasional police agent, lawyer

George Somes Layard (676 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Horseman: Pierre Lombart's Engraving, Charles or Cromwell? (1922) An Amateur Detective (1925) Catalogue Raisonné of Engraved British Portraits from altered

Borough Park, Brooklyn (5,999 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Saxon (1936–2020), film actor Arnold Schuster, clothing salesman and amateur detective, involved in the capture of bank robber Willie "The Actor" Sutton

Clarissa Watson (537 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gainsborough Brown, the first in a series of five mystery novels following amateur detective Persis Willum. Of her protagonist, Watson reportedly stated, "The

Death in Berlin (574 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lottie's nine years old friend, a naughty and clever boy who plays amateur detective - and is quite good at it. Mademoiselle Beljame - The cold and efficient

Partners in Crime (British TV series) (1,673 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Tommy and Tuppence Beresford. Walliams liked the idea of a married amateur detective duo bickering over a dead body. Agatha Christie wrote stories featuring

Marco Malvaldi (1,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mystery with the renowned Romagna gastronomist Pellegrino Artusi as the amateur detective in 19th century Italy, was awarded the Isola d’Elba Award and the

1973 in comics (4,884 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

artist (Know-It-All Jake, Superstitious Sam, Willie Hawkshaw the Amateur Detective, Mrs. Economy), dies at age 101. November 25: Rex Maxon, American

Aunty Lee's Delights (883 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Aunty" as she wants to be called, is an elderly Peranakan widow and amateur detective. Instead of retiring with her dead husband's wealth, she opens Aunty

The Fatal Equilibrium (792 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

respectively. It was Breit's notion to write a mystery novel in which an amateur detective uses economic theory to solve crimes. Elzinga was enthusiastic about

Omar Yussef (962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

appearance The Fourth Assassin Created by Matt Rees In-universe information Gender Male Occupation Teacher, Amateur detective Nationality Palestinian

Mr. Mystery (911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Alvin and Tony are infatuated by her. Alan Soh: Alvin's father and an amateur detective who was killed by the Snake. The latest book in the Mr. Mystery series

Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion (2,543 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

puzzles were "varied" and relatively easy; if the player is not an "amateur detective", they could "reject this case". The magazine criticized "the imprecise

Chaos Terminal (221 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Mallory Viridian, now settled in on space station Eternity as an amateur detective, is faced with a new major mystery when more visitors from her native

Heaven's Memo Pad (2,389 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Committee", with Ayaka Shinozaki. He is also persuaded to join NEET, an amateur detective agency filled with unemployed slackers who take on and solve cases

Lev Raphael (689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mystery novels centred on Nick Hoffman, an English professor and amateur detective investigating murders in the academic world. In addition to publishing

Murder in the Cathedral (2020 film) (471 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

production began in 2009. The short takes place in Victorian London, with amateur detective Gloria Scott (originally a character from one of Arthur Conan Doyle's

Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen (2,110 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Futrelle Portrayed by Douglas Wilmer Paul Rhys Tony Gardner In-universe information Gender Male Occupation Scientist, Amateur Detective Nationality American

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (1,654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the first book left off, with Pippa "Pip" Fitz-Amobi hailed as an amateur detective online after creating a podcast called A Good Girl's Guide To Murder

Nancy Drew (14,190 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

of contradictory ideas about femininity. Nancy Drew is a fictional amateur detective. She is originally depicted as a blonde-haired and blue-eyed 16-year-old

Attack on the Pin-Up Boys (4,232 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as Kibum, a student of Neulparan High School, the narrator and an amateur detective Choi Si-won of Super Junior as Siwon, the president of the student

Death in a Tenured Position (934 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Kate Fansler. Kate is a successful and independent professor and amateur detective. Kate can be found as the main character in other books by Heilbrun

List of Batman: The Animated Series episodes (551 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Paur Sam Graham and Chris Hubbell September 30, 1992 (1992-09-30) Amateur detective Sherman Grant and his friend Roberta find themselves coming to Batman's

Sylvanian Families (1987 TV series) (680 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

October 2, 1987 (1987-10-02) The Bear Facts: 7-year-old Charlie is an amateur detective who wishes that he had something to investigate. In the Sylvanian

Even Murderers Take Holidays and Other Mysteries (503 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Constable Petrella Somebody, page 18 — Detective Sergeant Petrella Amateur Detective, page 25 — Detective Sergeant Petrella Counter Attack, page 35 — Detective

Jeeves (12,035 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Belgravia and the New Zealand company Jeeves Tours. The fictional amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey and his valet Mervyn Bunter, created by Dorothy

Anton Korn (1,938 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Designed in 1924 by Korn. Has oak timbers from old Oriental Hotel. An amateur detective sorted out that this was Korn's own home and posted that, and the

Frank Thornton (Savoyard) (1,716 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

this production, but was less well reviewed in his next role, as an amateur detective in the farce A Mare's Nest, of which The Era wrote, "he made it rather

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (7,457 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"Brother Kwame". Igloo Hankins (voiced by Brian Hooks) is a mall cop and amateur detective. In the reboot, he quit being a mall cop to become a shady lawyer

Trefusis family (887 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

(1894–1972), English writer and socialite Fictional Miss Emily Trefusis, amateur detective in The Sittaford Mystery by Agatha Christie Professor Donald Trefusis

Badaud (1,180 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

triumphant. It can concentrate on observation; the result is the amateur detective. Or it can stagnate in the gaper; then the flâneur has turned into

Jack the Ripper suspects (12,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Stephenson's strange manner and interest in the crimes resulted in an amateur detective reporting him to Scotland Yard on Christmas Eve, 1888. Two days later

Richard Castle (7,267 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nickname Rick, Castle Gender Male Occupation Best-selling author Amateur detective/police consultant Private investigator Family Martha Rodgers (mother)

The Honjin Murders (1,638 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Ginzo, the uncle of the murdered bride, calls in Kosuke Kindaichi, an amateur detective. A number of clues point to the Three-fingered man as the murderer

Rupert Croft-Cooke (2,581 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

history master at the fictional Queen's School, Newminster, as an amateur detective. Case for Three Detectives (1936) ISBN 0-89733-033-1: An example of

Detective (TV series) (903 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Houston 1.5 The Judas Window Carter Dickson Sir Henry Merrivale, amateur detective David Horne 1.6 Dishonoured Bones John Trench Martin Cotterill, archeologist

Buzz Watson (1,769 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

possible suspect for the Bill Jones he's looking for. Due to some amateur detective work, Rusty is able to get Buzz Bill's fingerprints, enabling him

Nero Wolfe (18,516 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

trilogy can be freely downloaded. Loren D. Estleman created the rotund amateur detective Claudius Lyon, who is so obsessed with Nero Wolfe's style of life

Titanic in popular culture (13,486 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jacques Futrelle, who perished in the disaster, takes the role of amateur detective in solving a murder aboard Titanic shortly before her fatal collision

List of Murder, She Wrote characters (2,364 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Frank, after Grady's Uncle. Jessica Fletcher – A mystery writer and amateur detective, she is the protagonist and central character of the series. Fletcher

Billy Butcher (5,963 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

likely due to Billy's awareness of Hughie's intuition and skill as an amateur detective. While Butcher seems at times callous with how he deals with his team

Victor & Hugo: Bunglers in Crime (1,659 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on, and hold up, the Orient Express (during which the well-known amateur detective, Achilles Marrot, accused them of a jewel robbery that they did not

List of Viz comic strips (26,821 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

have to go to school anyway. Jack Black and his dog Silver – a young amateur detective staying with his Aunt Meg on an eternal school holiday. Often gets

A Charles Paris Mystery (785 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

entangled in various crimes, and finds himself unwillingly in the role of amateur detective. Bill Nighy describes Paris as "an actor sleuth, who drinks too much

Librarians in popular culture (8,484 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

represented in novels are in the detective fiction genre, frequently as an amateur detective and protagonist. Although the stereotype of the librarian as a "passive

Sherlock Holmes pastiches (12,656 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

logically worked conclusions that are proved abysmally wrong by an amateur detective with an extremely keen sense of smell which he employs in solving

List of Maverick episodes (988 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

it out. Maverick finds himself forced to intermittently become an amateur detective over a period of months. Written by DeVallon Scott and directed by

Nancy Drew: Midnight in Salem (531 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

longtime voice actor Lani Minella. Nancy Drew (Brittany Cox) - An amateur detective who visits Salem, Massachusetts in order to uncover the mystery behind

List of children of clergy (8,013 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Grantchester with a leading figure of a Anglican clergyman turned amateur detective. John A. Sanford – American Jungian analyst, writer and Episcopal

List of characters in the Jean le Flambeur series (4,992 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Lupin novel, The Hollow Needle) is a student of architecture and an amateur detective. He is only ten Martian years old when he attracts unwelcome fame

List of fictional actors (12,217 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Horne Richard Mace (Geoffrey Matthews), an eccentric 1880s actor and amateur detective in a series of radio plays by Eric Saward (later adapted into the

List of Thanhouser Company films (3,286 words) [view diff] case mismatch in snippet view article find links to article

Center of the Web The Reator of "Hunger” Naidra, the Dream Woman The Amateur Detective The Reader of Minds In The Conservatory The Barrier of Flames Shadows

John Haslette Vahey (10,557 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

hinges on a murder mystery, and the efforts of the police and an amateur detective to solve it, set against a frenetic car chase. A reviewer commented:

List of Knockout (British comics) stories (3,594 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

June 1940 Artist: Hugh McNeill Despite his bumbling inadequacies, an amateur detective always solves crimes. Cartoon strip. Published: 13 April 1957 to 14