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          | Mark Abernethy | 
         
        
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          Alan “Mac” McQueen:
            true-blue Australian intelligence agent, in Southeast Asia and Australia | 
         
       
         
        
          
            |  Robin Adair | 
           
          
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            Nicodemus Dunne:
              a fallen Bow Street Runner working as a running patterer, spreading
              the daily news by word of mouth, transported to 1828 Sydney, Australia,
              in the Curious Murder mysteries | 
           
         
         
        
          
            | Robert G. Barrett | 
           
          
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            Les Norton:
              nightclub bouncer in Sydney, Australia | 
           
         
           
          
            
              |  Lenny Bartulin | 
             
            
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              Jack Susko:
                used book dealer and amateur sleuth in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Jean Bedford | 
             
            
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              Anna Southwood:
                private enquiry agent in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Margaret Bevege | 
             
            
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              Elizabeth Ludowski:
                detective appointed to the Police Commissioner’s Special
                Assignment Squad, in Queensland, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Carmel Bird | 
             
            
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              Courtney Frome:
                sassy freelance journalist who investigates crimes, in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Kirsty Brooks | 
             
            
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              Cassidy Blair:
                29-year-old amateur sleuth, later private investigator, in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Lindy Cameron | 
             
            
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              Kit O’Malley:
                former police officer, now a private investigator in Melbourne,
                Australia | 
             
           
         
          
           
          
           
          
            
              | Alan Carter | 
             
            
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              Cato Kwong: Detective
                Senior Sergeant in Western Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Jon Cleary | 
             
            
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              Scobie Malone: a
                family-man and a police inspector, in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
           
          
            
              | Cathy Cole | 
             
            
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              Nicola Sharpe: tall,
                tough 29-year-old private investigator, in the Balmain area of
                Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Peter Corris | 
             
            
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              Richard Browning:
                private investigator with Hollywood ties, in Sydney, Australia | 
             
            
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              Ray Crawley:
                Federal Security Agency director in Sydney, Australia | 
             
            
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              Luke Dunlop:
                agent for the Witness Protection Agency in Australia | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Cliff Hardy: private
                investigator in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | S.H. Courtier | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Digger Haig: police
                inspector, in Australia | 
             
            
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              Ambrose Mahon:
                police inspector, later superintendent, in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
          
           
          
            
              | Emma Darcy | 
             
            
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              K.C. Gordon: successful
                romance novelist in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
         
          
            
              | Garry Disher | 
             
            
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              Hal Challis: Detective
                Inspector on the Peninsula south-east of Melbourne, Australia | 
             
            
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              Wyatt: a thief in Melbourne, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Peter Doyle | 
             
            
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              Billy Glasheen:
                a lurk merchant and milk bar cowboy, in post-WWII Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Pat Flower | 
             
            
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              Bert Swinton: intuitive
                detective inspector in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
         
          
           
          
            
              | Susan Geason | 
             
            
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              Syd Fish: former
                political press secretary, now a private investigator, in Sydney,
                Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Sulari Gentill | 
             
            
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              Rowland Sinclair: young artist and gentleman from a wealthy family, and reluctant amateur sleuth, in 1930s Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 
             
           
 
          
            
              | Leah Giarratano | 
             
            
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              Jill Jackson:
                police detective sergeant, and childhood rape victim, in Sydney,
                New South Wales, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Robert Gott | 
             
            
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              William Power:
                would-be private detective leading a troupe of incompetent Shakespearean
                actors during World War II, in Australia | 
             
           
         
          
            
              | Kerry Greenwood | 
             
            
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              Corinna
                  Chapman: former banker, now running a bakery, Earthly Delights,
                  in Melbourne, Australia | 
             
            
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              Phryne Fisher:
                in 1920s Melbourne, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Jarad Henry | 
             
            
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              Rubens McCauley:
                maverick detective in the Criminal Investigation Unit in St.
                Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Katherine Howell | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Ella Marconi,
                a police detective and a revolving cast of ambulance paramedics,
                in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Fergus Hume | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Samuel Gorby and
                Kilsip, police detectives, and Calton, a leading lawyer, in Melbourne,
                Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Adrian Hyland | 
             
            
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              Emily Tempest:
                part white and part aborigine, who returns to the Austrialia
                outback | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Dorothy Johnston | 
             
            
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              Sandra Mahoney:
                government clerk, later a computer security consultant, in Canberra,
                Australia | 
             
           
          
           
          
          
            | Gabrielle Lord | 
           
          
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            Gemma Lincoln:
              private investigator specializing in insurance traces, in Sydney,
              Australia | 
           
          
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            Jack McCain:
              ex-crime scene detective and forensic scientist,
              in Sydney, Australia | 
           
         
           
          
            
              | Barry Maitland | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Harry Belltree: homicide detective in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 
             
           
 
        
         
        
          
            | Andrew Masterson | 
           
          
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            Joe Panther:
                drug dealer, killer, messiah, and private investigator, in Melbourne,
                Australia  | 
           
         
         
        
         
        
          
            | Geoffrey McGeachin | 
           
          
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            Charlie Berlin:
              ex-bomber pilot and POW in World War II, rejoining the police force
              in 1947 Victoria, Australia | 
           
          
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            Alby Murdoch:
              Australian secret agent and international photographer | 
           
         
         
        
         
          
            
              | Claire McNab | 
             
            
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              Carol Ashton:
                lesbian detective inspector in Sydney, Australia  | 
             
            
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              Denise Cleever:
                an agent for the Australian Security Intelligence Organization
                in Australia | 
             
            
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              Kylie Kendall:
                lesbian manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia, who
                inherits 51% of her father's private detective agency in Los
                Angeles, California | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Carolyn Morwood | 
             
            
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              Marlo Shaw:
                professional female cricketer and amateur sleuth, in Melbourne,
                Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Tara Moss | 
             
            
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              Makedde Vanderwall:
                part-time Canadian model and forensic psychology student, in
                Sydney, Australia (and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) | 
             
           
        
            
              | Alex Palmer | 
             
            
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              Paul Harrigan:
                detective inspector in the New South Wales Police Force, later
                a private security consultant, and his partner Grace Riordan,
                a detective constable, later an undercover intelligence agent,
                in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
         
        
          
            | Leigh Redhead | 
           
          
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            Simone Kirsch:
              who stripdances as “Vivien Leigh,” a private investigator
              in Melbourne, Australia | 
           
         
         
          
            
              | Matthew Reilly | 
             
            
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              Jack West, Jr.:
                adventurer from the Australian Outback | 
             
           
         
          
            
              | Kel Robertson | 
             
            
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              Bradman (Brad) Chen:
                5th-generation Chinese-Australian ex-rugby star and inspector
                with the Australian Federal Police, in Canberra, Australia | 
             
           
         
          
            
              | Jennifer Rowe | 
             
            
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              Verity “Birdie” Birdwood:
                TV researcher in Australia | 
             
            
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              Holly Love: a reluctant and accidental private investigator working at Gorgon Office Supplies, in the Blue Mountains of Australia | 
             
            
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              Tessa Vance:
                senior detective in Sydney, Australia | 
             
           
         
          
            
              | Caroline Shaw | 
             
            
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              Lenny Aaron:
                ex-cop female private investigator and cat finder, who is obsessed
                with Japan, in Melbourne, Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Steve J. Spears | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Stella Pentangeli,
                detective to the stars and producer of a web-zine, the Pentangeli
                Papers, and Investigator Ng of the homicide squad, somewhere
                in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Peter Temple | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Jack Irish: lawyer
                and gambler, turned debt collector and people finder, in Melbourne,
                Australia | 
             
           
           
          
           
          
           
          
            
              | Dave Warner | 
             
            
              |   • | 
              Andrew “Lizard” Zirk:
                former rock star turned private investigator, based in Australia | 
             
           
           
          
            
              | Felicity Young | 
             
            
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              Stevie Hooper: a mother and a detective sergeant in the Sex Crimes unit, in Perth, Western Australia | 
             
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