|
| Bruce Alexander |
| • |
Sir John Fielding: blind magistrate and founder of the first police
force in London, England |
| Tasha Alexander |
| • |
Lady Emily Ashton: young and recently widowed, in Victorian London, England |
| Margery Allingham |
| • |
Albert Campion:
suave sleuth with noble blood, in London, England |
| William Ardin |
| • |
Charles Ramsay:
Chelsea antiques dealer in London, England |
| Gordon Ashe (John Creasey) |
| • |
Patrick
Dawlish: works with British Intelligence and later, Scotland
Yard |
| T.F. Banks |
| • |
Henry Morton, in Regency London, England, in the Memoirs
of a Bow Street Runner series: |
| Robert Barnard |
| • |
Charlie Peace:
young black Scotland Yard detective first in London
and then in Leeds, England |
| • |
Perry Trethowan: Scotland Yard inspector in London, England |
| Trevor Barnes |
| • |
Blanche Hampton: detective superintendent at Scotland Yard, in
London, England |
| Colin Bateman |
| • |
Jimmie Murphy: undercover police officer in London, England, |
| C.C. Benison |
| • |
Jane Bee: housemaid
at Buckingham Palace in London, England |
| Anthony Berkeley |
| • |
Roger Sheringham: writer and obnoxious sleuth, in London, England |
| Mark Billingham |
| • |
Tom Thorne: middle aged detective inspector in London, England |
| Victoria Blake |
| • |
Samantha (Sam) Falconer:
world judo champion turned private investigator at the Gentle Way
investigation agency in London, working in Oxford, England |
| Emily Brightwell |
| • |
Inspector
Witherspoon: a policeman, and Mrs. Jeffries,
his housekeeper, in London, England, in the Victorian
mysteries |
| Tony Broadbent |
| • |
Jethro: cat burglar recruited by MI5, in post-WWII London, England |
| Fiona Buckley |
| • |
Ursula Blanchard:
Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth I , in London, England |
| Thomas Burke |
| • |
Quong Lee: elderly
Chinatown philosopher in London, England |
| Roger Busby |
| • |
Leric: detective
inspector for Scotland Yard in London, England |
| • |
Tony Rowley: detective
inspector for Scotland Yard in London, England |
| Gwendoline Butler |
| • |
John Coffin:
a police inspector rising through the ranks to Commissioner, and
his wife, Stella Pinero, an actress, in south London, England |
| • |
William Winter: police inspector, later superintendent, in south
London, England |
| Kate Charles |
| • |
Callie Anson:
newly ordained Anglican cleric, her boyfriend Mark
Lombardi, a police officer, and DI Neville Stewart, in London, England |
| • |
Lucy Kingsley:
artist, and David Middleton-Brown, a solicitor,
in London, England, and the Church of England, in the
Book of Psalms mysteries |
| Douglas Clark |
| • |
George Masters, a Scotland Yard DCI and later Chief Superintendent,
and Bill Green, a Detective Inspector and later DCI, in London, England |
| Anna Clarke |
| • |
Paula Glenning:
professor and writer, in London, England |
| Liza Cody |
| • |
Anna Lee: private investigator
in London, England |
| • |
Eva Wylie: wrestler and
security guard, in London, England |
| Martina Cole |
| • |
Patrick Kelly who has underworld connections, and Kate Burrows,
a detective inspector, in the East End of London, England |
| • |
Maura Ryan: who joins the family “firm” and becomes the young queen of the criminal underworld, in the East End of London, England |
| Judith Cook |
| • |
Simon Forman: physician-astrologer
in Elizabethan London, England |
| Natasha Cooper |
| • |
Willow King: romance
novelist in London, England |
| Rick Copp |
| • |
Jarrod Jarvis: former child-star and gay amateur sleuth, in Los Angeles, California, and London, England |
| David Craig (Bill James) |
| • |
Roy Rickman:
Home Officer Administrator in London, England |
| Freeman Wills Crofts |
| • |
Joseph French:
inspector at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Deborah Crombie |
| • |
Duncan Kincaid:
Scotland Yard superintendent, and Gemma James,
a sergeant, in London, England |
| Lillian De La Torre |
| • |
Dr. Sam Johnson:
real-life 18th-century lexicographer and sage, in London, England |
| Len Deighton |
| • |
Harry Palmer:
lazy cynical British agent in London, England |
| • |
Bernard Samson:
middle-aged British spy in London, England |
| August Derleth |
| • |
Solar Pons: acknowledged imitation of Sherlock Holmes |
| Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) |
| • |
Colonel
March: head of Scotland Yard’s fictitious Department
D-3, the Department of Queer Complaints |
| Peter Dickinson |
| • |
James Pibble: Scotland
Yard Superintendent, later a private investigator, in London, England |
| Paul Doherty |
| • |
Brother Athelstan, a Dominican monk, and John Cranston, a coroner,
in 14th century London, England |
| • |
Mathilde of
Westminster: physician and former lady-in-waiting,
in the court of Edward II, in 14th century, London, England |
| Stella Duffy |
| • |
Saz Martin: lesbian
private investigator in London, England |
| Sarah Dunant |
| • |
Hannah Wolfe: private
investigator in London, England |
| Francis Durbridge |
| • |
Paul Temple:
crime writer turned private investigator, in London, England |
| Loren D. Estleman |
| • |
Sherlock Holmes:
19th century consulting detective in London, England |
| Quinn Fawcett (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett) |
| • |
Mycroft
Holmes: Sherlock’s older brother, in London, England |
| E.X. Ferrars |
| • |
Virginia Freer:
a physiotherapist, and Felix Freer, a thief, in London,
England |
| Charles Finch |
| • |
Charles Lenox: gentleman
sleuth, in 1860s London, England |
| Robert L. Fish |
| • |
Schlock Homes:
of 211B Bagel Street, a Sherlockian pastiche with a Yiddish perspective,
in London, England |
| Ian Fleming |
| • |
James Bond: master
spy in London, England |
| Antonia Fraser |
| • |
Jemima Shore: investigative
television journalist in London, England |
| Frances Fyfield |
| • |
Sarah Fortune:
lawyer in a prestigious British firm, in London, England |
| • |
Helen West:
Crown Prosecutor in London, England |
| Diana Gabaldon |
| • |
Lord John Grey:
soldier and gentleman, in mid-18th century London, England, and elsewhere |
| Elizabeth George |
| • |
Thomas Lynley:
Scotland Yard inspector, Sergeant Barbara Havers,
forensic pathologist Simon Allcourt-St. James, his wife Deborah,
and lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England |
| Anthony Gilbert |
| • |
Arthur G. Crook: fat, beer-drinking Cockney barrister in London,
England |
| E.X. Giroux |
| • |
Robert (Robby) Forsyth:
retired barrister, and Abigail (Sandy)
Sanderson, his crisply efficient secretary, in London, England |
| Philip Gooden |
| • |
Nick Revill: actor
in Shakespearean times
in London, England |
| Bruce Graeme |
| • |
William Stevens, a Scotland Yard inspector in London, England,
and Pierre Allain, an agent in the Sûreté in Paris,
France |
| Ann Granger |
| • |
Lizzie Martin: companion to a wealthy widow slum landlord, in 1860s London, England |
| • |
Fran Varady: an out-of-work actress turned private investigator,
in London, England |
| Pip Granger |
| • |
Rosie Featherby: child
raised by her Aunt Maggie and Uncle Bert running a Soho cafe in early
1950s London, England |
| Lesley Grant-Adamson |
| • |
Laura Flynn:
private investigator in London, England |
| • |
Rain Morgan:
newspaper reporter in London, England |
| John Gray |
| • |
Edmund Whitty: correspondent
for a Victorian tabloid in London, England |
| Susanna Gregory |
| • |
Thomas Chaloner: reluctant spy for the Secretary in London, England |
| Leonard Gribble |
| • |
Anthony Slade: Superindendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Martha Grimes |
| • |
Richard Jury:
Scotland Yard investigator based in London, England |
| Robert Lee Hall |
| • |
Benjamin Franklin:
18th-century American inventor, in London, England |
| Barbara Hambly |
| • |
James Asher:
professor and one-time spy in London, England |
| Paul Harding |
| • |
Brother Athelstan:
a Dominican monk, and John Cranston, a coroner,
in 14th century London, England |
| Ray Harrison |
| • |
Joseph Bragg, a down-to-earth
detective sergeant, and James Morton, an upper-crust constable, in
1890s London, England |
| Cynthia Harrod-Eagles |
| • |
Bill Slider:
police inspector at Shpherd’s Bush CID, in London, England |
| Simon Hawke |
| • |
Will Shakespeare,
a young writer, and Tuck Smythe, an aspiring actor, the Elizabethan
era’s answer to Holmes and Watson, in London,
England |
| Mo Hayder |
| • |
Jack Caffery: troubled
police detective in London, England |
| Tim Heald |
| • |
Simon Bogner: special
investigator with the Board of Trade, in London, England |
| Veronica Heley |
| • |
Bea Abbot: recently widowed and trying to retire from the Abbot Agency, which specialized in cases where clients wanted to avoid police involvement, in London, England |
| • |
Ellie Quicke: 50-ish widow and amateur sleuth, in the suburbs
of London, England |
| Keith Heller |
| • |
George Man: 18th
century parish watchman in London, England |
| Lauren Henderson |
| • |
Sam Jones: sculptor
in Camden Town, London, England |
| Jack Higgins (originally written as Harry Patterson) |
| • |
Nick Miller:
sergeant detective at Central Division, in London, England |
| John Buxton Hilton |
| • |
Simon Kenworthy:
hard-working detective inspector, later superintendent, with Scotland
Yard, in London, England |
| Sydney Hosier |
| • |
Mrs. Hudson: housekeeper
for the other sleuth of Baker Street, in London, England |
| P.D. James |
| • |
Adam Dalgliesh:
critically acclaimed poet and Scotland Yard commander,
in London, England |
| • |
Cordelia Gray:
fledgling private investigator in London, England |
| Quintin Jardine |
| • |
Oz Blackstone:
private investigator in London, England |
| Julie Kaewert |
| • |
Alex Plumtree: publisher
in London, England, in the Booklover mysteries |
| Dan Kavanagh |
| • |
Nick Duffy: bisexual ex-cop turned private investigator, in London,
England |
| Michael Kenyon |
| • |
Henry Peckover:
police inspector and the Scotland Yard Cockney poet, in London, England |
| Peter King |
| • |
Goodwin Harper: food
consultant in London, England |
| • |
Ned Parker: hansom
cab driver in 1870s London, England |
| Roberta Kray |
| • |
Gangland
novels in London, England |
| Lynda La Plante |
| • |
Jane Tennison: detective
chief inspector in London, England |
| • |
Anna Travis: rookie
detective, in London, England |
| Deryn Lake |
| • |
John Rawlings: apothecary
and associate of John Fielding, mostly in 18th-century London, England |
| Janet Laurence |
| • |
Canaletto: Italian painter in 18th century London, England |
| David Lawrence |
| • |
Stella Mooney:
Detective Sergeant in London, England |
| Stephen Leather |
| • |
Dan “Spider” Shepherd:
former SAS trooper turned undercover cop, based in London, England |
| John Le Carre |
| • |
George Smiley:
British Intelligence agent and scholar, based in
London, England |
| Irene Lin-Chandler |
| • |
Holly-Jean Ho: bisexual Anglo-Chinese computer fraud consultant
and private investigator, in London, England |
| Gillian Linscott |
| • |
Birdie Linnet: ex-cop fitness trainer in London, England |
| David Liss |
| • |
Benjamin Weaver: Jewish
ex-pugilist hired by gentry to pursue debtors and thieves, in 18th
Century London, England |
| E.C.R. Lorac (Carol Carnac) |
| • |
Robert MacDonald: London Scot, Inspector and later Superintendent,
in England |
| Gavin Lyall |
| • |
Harry Maxim: Special
Services major, assigned to 10 Downing Street in London, England |
| Marianne MacDonald |
| • |
Dido Hoare:
bookseller in London, England |
| Barry Maitland |
| • |
Kathy Kolla,
a young Scotland Yard detective, and David Brock, her mentor, in
London, England |
| John Malcolm |
| • |
Tim Simpson: financial
consultant turned art investment specialist in London, England |
| Ngaio Marsh |
| • |
Roderick Alleyn: second son of a baronet and police inspector in
London, England |
| Edward Marston |
| • |
Nicholas Bracewell:
stage manager for Elizabethan acting company in London, England |
| • |
Robert Colbeck:
former attorney now serving as an inspector in the fledging Scotland
Yard in 1851 London, England |
| • |
Christopher Redmayne,
an architect, and Jonathan Bale, a constable in 1600s London, England |
| Philip McCutchan |
| • |
Simon Shard: Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, in London,
England |
| M.R.D. Meek |
| • |
Lennox Kemp: disbarred
solicitor working as a detective, in London England |
| John Milne |
| • |
Jimmy Jenner: pensioned-off
cop with a wooden leg in the Stoke Newington section of London, England |
| Anne Morgellyn |
| • |
Louise Moon: mortuary
technician at Charity’s (Charitable Hospital
of St. Roche Without the Walls) mortuary, in London, England |
| Arthur Morrison |
| • |
Martin Hewitt:
solicitor's clerk in turn-of-the-century London, England |
| John Mortimer |
| • |
Horace Rumpole:
an elderly "junior" barrister in London, England |
| Patricia Moyes |
| • |
Henry Tibbett:
Scotland Yard Inspector in London, England |
| Janet Neel |
| • |
John McLeish, DCI, and Francesca
Wilson a civil servant turned housewife,
in London, England |
| Peter O’Donnell |
| • |
Modesty Blaise: gorgeous crime fighter for British Intelligence,
in London, England |
| Audrey Peterson |
| • |
Claire Camden:
California English professor in London, England |
| • |
Jane Winfield:
British journalist and music writer, in London,
England |
| Mike Phillips |
| • |
Sam Dean: Jamaica-born
black journalist in London, England |
| Deanna Raybourn |
| • |
Lady Julia Grey:
recently widowed, in 1880s London, England |
| Michael Ridpath |
| • |
Alex Calder: former RAF fighter pilot, now a City bond trader based
in London, England |
| David Roberts |
| • |
Lord Edward Corinth,
a jaded English aristocrat, and Verity Browne, a leftist journalist,
between the wars in 1930s London, England |
| Michael Robotham |
| • |
Joseph O’Loughlin,
a psychologist, and Vincent Ruiz, a detective inspector, in London,
England |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
| • |
Lord Peter
Wimsey: pianist, book collector, and criminologist in London,
England |
| John Sherwood |
| • |
Celia Grant: botanist
and horticulturist in London, England |
| Gillian Slovo |
| • |
Kate Baeier: Portuguese
journalist turned private investigator, in London, England |
| Cynthia Smith |
| • |
Emma Rhodes: private problem-resolver for the rich, in London,
England |
| Ian Stuart |
| • |
David Grierson: bank
inspector, in London England |
| • |
Graham Lorimer: investigator
for the Home Office concerning infringements on British interests
overseas |
| Thomas Swan |
| • |
Jack Oxby: Scotland
Yard art forgery investigator in London, England |
| Josephine Tey |
| • |
Alan Grant:
Scotland Yard Inspector in London, England |
| Graham Thomas |
| • |
Erskine Powell:
Detective-Chief Superintendent of New Scotland Yard,
in London, England |
| Will Thomas |
| • |
Cyrus Barker, a
private detective, and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, an ex-student
and ex-thief, in Victorian London, England |
| Mark Timlin |
| • |
Nick Sharman: hard-living
ex-cop private eye in London, England |
| Charles Todd |
| • |
Ian Rutledge: shell-shocked
World War I veteran returning to his job at Scotland Yard, in London,
England |
| Malcolm Torrie (Gladys Mitchell) |
| • |
Timothy Herring:
running a society for Preservation of Buildings of Historic Interest,
in London, England |
| Michael Underwood |
| • |
Nick Atwell:
police sergeant at Scotland Yard, and detective constable Clare Reynolds, in London, England |
| • |
Rosa Epton:
solicitor in London, England |
| • |
Simon Manton:
police inspector, later superintendent, in London, England |
| Patricia Wentworth |
| • |
Ernest Lamb: police inspector in London, England |
| • |
Miss Maud
Silver: retired governess and teacher who
becomes a professional private detective, in London, England |
| David Williams |
| • |
Mark Treasure:
merchant banker in London, England |
| Jacqueline Winspear |
| • |
Maisie Dobbs:
psychologist and investigator based in 1920s and
1930s London, England |
| Wayne Worcester |
| • |
Sherlock Holmes:
detective in London, England, from the journals
of Dr. Watson |
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