2. Inspector Linley is
a British detective
created by the
American author
Elizabeth George.
Linley himself is a
round character
with weaknesses.
His relationship
with Lady Helen
Clyde evolves
through the novels.

3. Kinsey Millhone is a
Private detective.
American author Sue
Grafton created the
detective character
Kinsey Millhone. She
appears in the alphabet
series: “A Is for Alibi”,
“B Is for Burglar” etc.
She lives in an
apartment in Santa
Teresa, California.

4. Philip Marlowe is a private
investigator created by
American author Raymond
Chandler. He appeared for
the first time in “The Big
Sleep”, in 1939. Other well-
known titles are “The Lady
in the Lake” and “The Long
Goodbye”. He is also called
the most handsome
detective character. He is
also the shadow of Sam
Spade is detective world.

5. Dashiell Hammett
invented private
detective Sam Spade.
He only appears in
one novel and three
short stories, but
remains important as
the first example of a
detective in the hard-
boiled genre. He is the
only detective
character who is dead.

6. Detective Chief-Inspector
Roderick Alleyn is a
British detective who
appears in thirty-two
novels by New Zealand
writer Ngaio Marsh. It
started with “A Man Lay
Dead” in 1934, when a
murder game ends with a
real murder. He works for
Scotland Yard, where he
eventually reaches the
rank of Chief
Superintendent.

7. Commissaire Jules Maigret
is the 2nd non English
fictional detective
character. Georges
Simenon was the creator
of the character. Georges
Simenon was a Belgian
and Maigret himself is
French and works in Paris.
He holds a quantity record
by appearing in seventy-
five novels and twenty-
nine short stories.

8. British author Dorothy
L. Sayers created Lord
Peter Wimsey. He is the
archetypal man
detective. Solving crimes
is a hobby for him. These
novels are still worth
reading, because they
are simply good
literature with a broad
perspective on British
society in that era.

9. Hercule Poirot appears
for the first time in
Agatha Christie’s “The
Mysterious Affair at
Styles”, published in 1920.
He is a retired Belgian
police officer who came
to England during World
War I as a refugee.
Hercule Poirot is one of
the most famous fictional
characters of all time.

10. The full name of Feluda is Prodosh
Chandra Mitra, who uses the
name Pradosh C. Mitter in his
visiting card. He is mainly a
fictional private
investigator starring in a series of
Bengali novels and short stories
written by the
famous Indian Bengali
film director and writer Satyajit
Ray. Feluda first made his
appearance in a Bengali children’s
magazine called Sandesh in 1965.
His first adventure was Feludar
Goendagiri.

11. Arthur Conan Doyle created
Sherlock Holmes the character.
Sherlock Holmes is the detective
who solves mysteries by logical
reasoning. He appears in only four
novels, of which “A Study in
Scarlet” (1887) was the first, and
“The Hound of the Baskervilles”
(1902) the most famous. The other
two are” The Red-Headed League”
and “The Adventure of the Blue
Carbuncle”. He uses cocaine, and
never gets romantically involved
with beautiful women.