I plan to read and review a case of each of the following detectives, many of
whom I am completely unfamiliar with, but who have been brought to my attention by “100 Greatest Literary Detectives” edited by Eric Sandberg.
- Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg
- Kogoro Akechi
- Lew Archer: The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald
- Bob Arctor: A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- Byomkesh Bakshi
- Inspector Hans Baerlach
- Brother William of Baskerville: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (translated by William Weaver)
- Martin Beck: The Laughing Policeman by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo (translated by Alan Blair)
- Hector Belascoaran Shayne
- Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte
- Inspector Tyador Borlu
- Lieutenant Boruvka
- Dame Beatrice Adela Lestrange Bradley: Dead Men’s Morris by Gladys Mitchell
- Simon Brenner
- Valeria Brinton (Woodville/Macallan)
- Father Brown: Podcast on the Best Father Brown Stories by G. K. Chesterton
- Inspector Bucket
- Brother Cadfael
- Inspector Cadin
- Albert Campion: Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
- Steve Carella: Killer’s Wedge by Ed McBain
- Thomas Carnacki, The Ghost-FInder
- Pepe Carvalho
- Mario Conde: Havana Red by Leonardo Padura (translated by Peter Bush)
- Sergeant Cuff
- Commander Adam Dalgliesh
- Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe
- Stephanie Delacour
- C. Auguste Dupin
- Inspector “Benedito” Espinosa
- Erast Petrovich Fandorin
- Professor Kate Fansler: Poetic Justice by Amanda Cross
- Dr. Gideon Fell: The Problem of the Wire Cage by John Dickson Carr
- Gervase Fen: The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
- Mrs. Gladden
- Inspector Alan Grant
- Cordelia Gray
- Detective Benny Griessel
- Ebenezer Gryce: The Leavenworth Case by Anna Katharine Green
- Bernie Gunther: Prague Fatale by Philip Kerr
- Mike Hammer
- Cliff Hardy
- Inspector Costas Haritos
- Timo Harjunpaa
- Tony Hill
- Harry Hole
- Sherlock Holmes
- Hong Jun
- Huo Sang
- Inspector Eitaro Imanishi
- Venus Johnson
- Kemal Kayankaya
- Kosuke Kindaichi: The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo (translated by Louise Heal Kawai)
- Lieutenant David Klein: White Jazz by James Ellroy
- Aunt Lalli
- Duca Lamberti
- Judith Lee: The Finchley Puzzle by Richard Marsh
- Lituma
- DI Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers
- Chief Inspector Jules Maigret: Maigret’s Doubts by Georges Simenon (translated by Shaun Whiteside)
- Philip Marlowe
- Miss Jane Marple: A Pocket Full of Rye by Agatha Christie
- Sharon McCone
- Travis McGee
- Kinsey Millhone
- Kiyoshi Mitarai: The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada (translated by Ross and Shika Mackenzie)
- Eberhard Mock
- Inspector Salvo Montalbano: The Terracotta Dog by Andrea Camilleri (translated by Stephen Sartarelli)
- Inspector Morse: Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
- Inspector Grazia Negro
- Thursday Next
- Don Isidro Parodi
- Joseph Peters
- Hercule Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
- Ellery Queen: The Siamese Twin Mystery by Ellery Queen
- Daniel Quinn: City of Glass by Paul Auster
- Quirke: Christine Falls by Benjamin Black
- Mma Precious Ramotswe
- Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins
- DI John Rebus
- Bernard Grimes Rhodenbarr: The Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block
- Commissario Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi
- Kay Scarpetta
- Sam Spade: The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- Spenser: The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
- Doc Sportello
- Nigel Strangeways
- Fahnderwachtmeister Jakob Studer
- Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson
- Teodor Szachi
- Philip Trent
- Camille Verhoeven
- Inspector Kurt Wallender
- Mei Wang
- V. I. Warshawski
- Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford
- Lord Peter Wimsey
- Nero Wolfe: Champagne for One by Nero Wolfe
- Lily Wu: The Waikiki Widow
- Detective Sergeant X: He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond
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