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| Paul Adam |
| • |
Mike McLean: freelance journalist in England |
| Jane (A.) Adams |
| • |
Naomi Blake: blind ex-policewoman
in the Midlands of England |
| • |
Ray Flowers: former police sergeant, private investigator, in England |
| • |
Rina Martin: retired actress, who played a private investigator in a television series, in Frantham, England |
| Peter Alding (Roderic Jeffries) |
| • |
Constable John
Kerr: and inspector Robert Fusil in the fictious seaside Fortrow,
England |
| Ted Allbeury |
| • |
Tad Anders: Polish-British
agent in England |
| Vivien Armstrong |
| • |
Judith Pullen: a detective sergeant, often assisted by her former chief inspector, Ralph Arnott, in England |
| Maureen Ash |
| • |
Bascot de Marins: Templar
Knight recovering from imprisonment in the holy lands, in the early
1200s, in England |
| Nancy Atherton |
| • |
Aunt Dimity: romantic
ghost in England |
| Kate Atkinson |
| • |
Jackson Brodie: ex-cop,
ex-husband, and private investigator, in the UK |
| Elizabeth Bailey |
| • |
Ottilia Fanshawe:
former companion to Dowager Lady Polbrook now married to Lord Francis
Fanshawe, in Regency England, in the Lady Fan mysteries |
| Stephanie Barron (Francine Mathews) |
| • |
Jane Austen:
famous author in England |
| Simon Beaufort with Beau Riffenburgh (Susanna Gregory) |
| • |
Sir Geoffrey Mappestone:
knight during the time of the Crusades |
| Francis Beeding |
| • |
Alistair Granby:
Colonel, later General, in the British Intelligence
Service in England and occasionally on the Continent |
| • |
George Martin:
police inspector in England |
| • |
Wilkins:
police inspector in England |
| George Bellairs |
| • |
Thomas Littlejohn:
police inspector, later Superintendent, mostly
in England |
| John Bingham |
| • |
John “Badger” Brock:
police superintendent in Melford, England |
| • |
Kenneth Ducane (also
called Vandoran), chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, in England |
| John Blackburn |
| • |
Bill Easterand and
Peggy Tey, agents for hire, based in England |
| • |
Charles Kirk: a
general, head of British Foreign Office Intelligence, mostly in England |
| J.M.C. Blair |
| • |
Merlin: scholar, doctor,
and advisor to King Arthur of legendary medieval Britain, in the
Merlin Investigations |
| Janie Bolitho |
| • |
Ian Roper: Detective
Chief Inspector, in Rickenham, England |
| Kyril Bonfiglioli |
| • |
Charlie Mortdecai:
dishonest art dealer who consorts with international crooks, and
his sidekick Jock Strapp, in England |
| Stephen Booth |
| • |
Detective Constable Ben
Cooper: trying to fill his
police sergeant father’s shoes, and new partner, Diane Fry,
recently transferred to Edendale’s force, in the Peak District
in England |
| Alan Bradley |
| • |
Flavia de Luce: an
11-year old sleuth and aspiring chemist in 1950, in the small village
of Bishop’s Lacey, England |
| Gyles Brandreth |
| • |
Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France |
| Simon Brett |
| • |
Blotto, the
Honourable Devereux Lyminster, and his sister Twinks, in 1920s England |
| • |
Melita Pargeter:
widow of a thief in England |
| • |
Charles Paris:
charming alcoholic actor in England |
| Leo Bruce |
| • |
Sergeant Beef: a beer-and-darts
loving common man in England |
| • |
Carolus Deene: ex-commando
turned schoolmaster in England |
| John Buchan |
| • |
Richard Hannay: an ordinary fellow caught up in extraordinary events
in England and Scotland |
| W.J. Burley |
| • |
Henry Pym: zoologist
cum amateur detective at Huntley-May Grammar School |
| • |
Charles Wycliffe: the
area CID superintendent in West Country, England |
| Miles Burton (John Rhode) |
| • |
Desmond Merrion:
military intelligence officer who becomes a private
detective, and Henry Arnold, a Scotland Yard inspector, in England |
| Dorothy Cannell |
| • |
Ellie Haskell,
an interior decorator, Ben Haskell, a writer and chef, and occasionally
Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners
of the Flowers Detection Agency |
| Joyce Cato (Faith Martin) |
| • |
Jenny Starling: traveling cook and caterer in England |
| Mary Challis (Sara Woods) |
| • |
Jeremy Locke:
attorney in England |
| Marion Chesney (M.C. Beaton) |
| • |
Captain Harry Cartwright:
wounded, bitter survivor of the Boer War, now a “fixer,” and
Lady Rose Summer, in Edwardian England |
| G.K. Chesterton |
| • |
Father Brown: gentle,
quiet little cleric in England |
| Alys Clare |
| • |
Abbess Helewise and Sir
Josse d’Acquin:
French knight, at
the Hawkenly Abbey in England during the 12th century |
| • |
Lassair: a 14-year-old
girl with special gifts training to be a healer in a Fenland village,
in 11th century England |
| Rory Clements |
| • |
John Shakespeare:
investigator and older brother of Will, in Elizabethan (1580s-1590s)
England |
| Michael Clynes (Paul Doherty) |
| • |
Sir Roger Shallot:
agent of Cardinal Wolsey in England |
| Judith Cook |
| • |
John Latymer: former
copper and literary tour guide for groups of American Tourists in
Great Britain |
| Natasha Cooper |
| • |
Trish Maguire: barrister specializing in child-abuse cases in
England |
| John Creasey |
| • |
Department
Z and tales of British counterespionage |
| Clare Curzon |
| • |
Mike Yeadings, a
police superintendent, and Angus Mott, a police sergeant, in Thames
Valley, England |
| Judith Cutler |
| • |
Lina Townend:
an orphan, and her mentor Griffith (Griff) Tripp, an antique dealer,
in England |
| • |
Josie Welford: new owner of the White Hart Pub in Kings Duncombe, a West Country village, and Nick Thomas, a Food Standards Agency inspector, in England |
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| Jeanne M. Dams |
| • |
Dorothy Martin:
American schoolteacher retired in England |
| Anna Dean |
| • |
Miss Dido Kent: 35-year-old
amateur sleuth, starting in 1805 Regency England |
| Hannah Dennison |
| • |
Vicky Hill: bumbling
investigative journalist in fictional Gipping-on-Plym, England |
| Mary Devlin |
| • |
Geoffrey Chaucer: poet
and detective in the late 1300s, in England |
| Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) |
| • |
Colonel March: head of Scotland Yard’s fictitious
Department D-3, the Department of Queer Complaints |
| • |
Sir
Henry Merrivale: holder of one of the oldest
baronetcies in England, physician, barrister, and head of military
intelligence for the war office in England |
| David Dickinson |
| • |
Lord Francis Powerscourt: ex-Indian army intelligence officer
and Irish peer, working as an investigator in the late Victorian
period, in England and elsewhere |
| Paul (P.C.) Doherty |
| • |
Hugh Corbett:
spy for King Edward I in England |
| • |
Matthew Jenkyn:
15th century soldier and double agent spy, in England |
| Ruth Downie |
| • |
Gaius Petreius Ruso: recently divorced Roman army physician,
in second century Roman Britain |
| Margaret Duffy |
| • |
Ingrid Langley:
a novelist and British Agent, and Patrick Gillard, a British army
major |
| Ann Dukthas (Paul Doherty) |
| • |
Nicholas Segalla:
time-traveling scholar in England |
| Dorothy Dunnett |
| • |
Johnson Johnson: British agent and yachtsman on the “Dolly” |
| Marjorie Eccles |
| • |
Gil Mayo: police
detective in Midlands, England |
| Ruth Dudley Edwards |
| • |
Robert Amiss: retired civil servant in England |
| Clive Egleton |
| • |
Peter Ashton: secret agent in the British SIS |
| • |
Dave Garnett: resistance fighter in Soviet-occupied Britain |
| Anthony Eglin |
| • |
Lawrence Kingston:
retired botany professor in England, in the English Garden mysteries |
| Kathy Lynn Emerson |
| • |
Susanna Appleton:
herbalist noblewoman in Elizabethan England |
| Margaret Erskine |
| • |
Septimus Finch:
large, bland detective inspector, later Chief Inspector, in England |
| Liz Evans |
| • |
Grace Smith: private
investigator in Seatoun, England |
| Martin Fallon (Jack Higgins) |
| • |
Paul Chavasse:
globe-trotting spy for Britain in the 1960s |
| Jasper Fforde |
| • |
Thursday Next:
agent of the Special Operations Network, Literary Division, in Great
Britain a funny sci-fi, alternate history series |
| Ian Fleming |
| • |
James Bond: master spy for Great Britain |
| Raymond Flynn |
| • |
Robert Graham: detective
inspector in Eddathorpe, England |
| Colin Forbes |
| • |
Tweed: British Secret Service second in command, and agents Paula
Grey and Bob Newman |
| Dick Francis |
| • |
Kit Fielding:
jockey in England |
| • |
Sid Halley:
injured steeplechase jockey turned private eye in England |
| Ariana Franklin |
| • |
Adelia:
(Vesuvia Adelia Rachel Ortese Aguilar of Salerno), a “doctor for the dead” working for King Henry II in 12th century England |
| Anthea Fraser |
| • |
Rona Parish: biographer
and amateur sleuth, in England |
| Reg Gadney |
| • |
Alan Rosslyn: private
investigator in England and elsewhere in Europe |
| John Gardner |
| • |
James Bond:
master spy for Great Britain (Ian Fleming series continued) |
| • |
Herbie Kruger:
senior staffer in British Intelligence |
| • |
Boysie Oakes:
squeamish government assassin in England |
| Jonathan Gash |
| • |
Clare Burtonall:
hospital physician in England |
| • |
Lovejoy:
antiques expert and forger in East Anglia, England |
| Philip Gooden |
| • |
Thomas Ansell:
London attorney who travels to British cathedral towns during the
Victorian era |
| Dolores Gordon-Smith |
| • |
Jack Haldean:
former Royal Flying Corps pilot and mystery writer, in early 1920s
England |
| Caroline Graham |
| • |
Tom Barnaby: chief
inspector in England |
| Lesley Grant-Adamson |
| • |
Jim Rush:
American on the run from British police in England |
| Malcolm Gray (Ian Stuart) |
| • |
Alan Craig: ex-Scotland
Yard detective, now a private enquiry agent, in England |
| Christine Green |
| • |
Kate Kinsella:
nurse and medical examiner in England |
| • |
Connor O’Neill:
chief inspector, and Fran Wilson, detective sergeant, in Fowchester,
England |
| Lucretia Walsh Grindle |
| • |
H.W. Ross: detective
superintendent in England |
| Sophie Hannah |
| • |
Simon Waterhouse:
detective constable, and Charlie Zailer, a detective sergeant, in
rural England |
| Tony Hays |
| • |
Malgwyn ap Cuneglas:
one-armed soldier and counselor to Arthur, in 5th century Britain |
| Georgette Heyer |
| • |
Superintendent Hannasyde:
police superintendent, and Inspector Hemingway, Hannasyde’s
subordinate in England |
| Patricia Highsmith |
| • |
Tom Ripley:
charming forger and psychopath in England |
| John Buxton Hilton |
| • |
Thomas Brunt:
CID inspector in the hill country of Northern England |
| Teri Holbrook |
| • |
Gale Grayson: American
expatriate historian in England |
| Hazel Holt |
| • |
Sheila Malory: writer of literary criticism in Taviscombe, England |
| Lis Howell |
| • |
Suzy Spencer: a working
mother and part-time television producer, in the village of Tarnfield
in the north of England, in the Norbridge Chronicles |
| Alan Hunter |
| • |
George Gently: police
inspector, later Chief Superintendent, based in East Anglia, England |
| Bill James |
| • |
Simon Abelard: mixed
race intelligence officer in Great Britain |
| • |
Colin Harpur, detective
chief superintendent, and Desmond Iles assistant chief constable
in an English seaport |
| • |
Kerry Lake:
detective in England |
| Dean James |
| • |
Simon Kirby-Jones: gay American writer who became a vampire in
Houston, now living in Snupperton Mumsley, a small village in England |
| Selwyn Jepson |
| • |
Eve Gill: young sleuth frequently dealing with problems caused
by her liquor-smuggling father, in England |
| Jennifer Jordan |
| • |
Barry Vaughan:
history lecturer and spoofy crime writer, and Dee
Vaughan, an office temp wife, in Woodfield, England |
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| H.R.F. Keating (written as Evelyn Hervey) |
| • |
Martens, Harriet:
detective superintendent in Greater Birchester, England |
| Susan B. Kelly |
| • |
Alison Hope: software
designer, and Nick Trevellyan, a detective inspector, in Hop Valley,
England |
| • |
Gregory Summers:
police superintendent in the Thames Valley, England |
| Sarah Kemp (Michael Butterworth) |
| • |
Dr. Tina
May: television celebrity pathologist and amateur sleuth, in
England |
| Bernard Knight |
| • |
Richard Pryor:
a pathologist, and Angela Bray, a biologist, running a private forensic
practice in 1950s Britain, in the Forensic Mystery series |
| Ronald A. Knox |
| • |
Miles Bredon: insurance
investigator for the Indescribable Insurance Company, in England |
| Sarah Lacey (Kay Mitchell) |
| • |
Leah Hunter: 25-year-old
tax inspector, in England |
| Hilary Landon (George Bellairs) |
| • |
Timothy Dewer:
police inspector in England |
| Janet Laurence |
| • |
Darina Lisle: caterer-chef
and food writer in West Country, England |
| Roy Lewis (b.1933) |
| • |
John Crow: police inspector
in England |
| • |
Eric Ward: policeman
turned solicitor in England |
| Gillian Linscott |
| • |
Nell Bray:
British suffragette |
| Catherine Lloyd |
| • |
Robert Kurland: army major wounded at Waterloo, and his childhood friend and housekeeper, Lucy Harrington, the rector’s daughter, in Kurland St. Mary, in Regency England |
| Phillip MacDonald |
| • |
Anthony Ruthven Gethryn:
sleuth and sometime intelligence officer,
son of an English squire and a Spanish actress |
| Donald MacKenzie |
| • |
John Raven: tough
Scotland Yard detective inspector, later an unlicensed private investigator
living on a houseboat, mostly in England |
| G.M. Malliet |
| • |
Max Tudor: former MI-5
agent, now vicar at St. Edwold’s in the idyllic village of
Nether Monkslip, England |
| Ngaio Marsh |
| • |
Roderick Alleyn:
second son of a baronet and police inspector in London, England and
elsewhere |
| Edward Marston |
| • |
Ralph Delchard,
a soldier, and Gervase Bret, a lawyer, in 11th century England, in
the Domesday Series |
| Andrew Martin |
| • |
Jim Stringer: railroad worker and amateur sleuth in the early 1900s, in England |
| Keith McCarthy |
| • |
Dr. John Eisenmenger:
former forensic pathologist in charge of St. Benjamin’s Museum
of Anatomy and Pathology, and Helena Flemming, a solicitor, in England |
| Iain McDowall |
| • |
Frank Jacobsen: detective
chief inspector, and detective sergeant Ian Kerr, in Crowby, in the
Midlands of England |
| Andy McNab |
| • |
Nick Stone: SAS (special forces) agent, for England |
| James Melville |
| • |
Ben Lazenby: British
Council official in England |
| Jennie Melville (Gwendoline Butler) |
| • |
Charmian Daniels:
police detective in Deerham Hills, England |
| Kay Mitchell |
| • |
John Morrissey: chief
inspector and family man in Malminster, England |
| Aly Monroe |
| • |
Peter Cotton: British
economic warfare agent in the mid to late 1940s |
| Philippa Morgan (Philip Gooden) |
| • |
Geoffrey Chaucer:
acting as an agent for Edward III in the late 1300s in England and
on the continent |
| Charles O’Brien |
| • |
Anne Cartier:
ex-vaudeville actress, then a tutor for deaf children, in England
and France on the eve of the French Revolution |
| Roger Ormerod |
| • |
Philipa Lowe:
amateur sleuth, and Oliver Simpson, a Detective Inspector, in England |
| • |
David Mallin
and sometimes George Coe, private detectives in England |
| • |
Richard Patton:
retired Detective Inspector in England |
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| Emma Page |
| • |
Kelsey: detective inspector,
later chief inspector, and detective Lambert, in a village somewhere
in England |
| Robin Paige (Susan Wittig Albert) |
| • |
Kathryn
Ardleigh: American author who moves to
Victorian Dedham, England, and Sir Charles Sheridan, a landed peer
and amateur scientist |
| Frank Parish (Roger Erskine Longrigg) |
| • |
Don Mallett:
thief and poacher in Medwell Fratorum, England |
| S.J. Parris |
| • |
Giordano Bruno: monk,
philosopher, and astronomer on the run from the Roman Inquisition,
serving as an agent for Queen Elizabeth I, in late 16th century England |
| Sharon Kay Penman |
| • |
Justin de Quincy:
bastard son of a bishop in 12th century England |
| Andrew Puckett |
| • |
Tom Jones: health investigator for the Home Office, and sometimes Jo Farewell, a nursing sister at Latchvale Hospital, in England |
| Philip Purser |
| • |
Colin Panton: working
in television in England |
| Sheila Radley |
| • |
Douglas Quantrill,
a detective chief inspector, and Hilary Lloyd, a police sergeant,
in East Anglia, England |
| Robert Richardson |
| • |
Augustus Maltravers:
journalist turned playwright and novelist, in fictional Vercaster,
England |
| Michael Ridpath |
| • |
Non-series security trading and technological suspense set in England |
| Barrie Roberts |
| • |
Chris Tyroll: off-beat anarchist lawyer who will defend anyone, in the West Midlands of England |
| Roberta Rogow |
| • |
Rev. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle team up in 1880s Victorian England |
| Betty Rowlands |
| • |
Sukey Reynolds: police
photographer and crime scene investigator, in England |
| Priscilla Royal |
| • |
Eleanor: Prioress
of Tyndal in 11th century East Anglia, England |
| Fay Sampson |
| • |
Suzie Fewings: genealogist
discovering interesting secrets in her family history, in England |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
| • |
Montague Egg: unassuming wine salesman, in England |
| Dorothy Simpson |
| • |
Luke Thanet: police
inspector in Sturrenden, England |
| Joanna Campbell Slan |
| • |
Jane Eyre, and her husband Edward Rochester, as amateur sleuths in 1850s England, in the Jane Eyre Chronicles |
| Shelley Smith |
| • |
Jacob Chaos: police
inspector in England |
| Sally Spencer (Alan Rustage) |
| • |
Charlie Woodend:
detective chief inspector in a village in England |
| • |
Monika Paniatowski:
detective chief inspector, Charlie Woodend’s protégé and
successor, in a village in England |
| Elizabeth Speller |
| • |
Laurence Bartram: World War I veteran and young widower in 1920s England |
| Susannah Stacey |
| • |
Robert
Bone:
widowed British police inspector |
| Neville Steed |
| • |
Johnny Black: private
detective in 1930s England |
| Rosemary Stevens |
| • |
Beau Brummell:
the arbiter of fashion in the Regency era of Great Britain |
| Simone St. James |
| • |
Non-series historical ghost stories set in 1920s England |
| Andrew Taylor |
| • |
William
Dougal: post-grad student and security firm employee in England |
| • |
Lydmouth
series: featuring an ensemble cast, including Richard Thornhill,
a detective inspector, and Jill Francis, a journalist, in Lydmouth,
England, in the 1950s |
| Peter Tonkin |
| • |
Tom Musgrave,
the Master of Defense, a sleuth in 1590s Elizabethan England |
| M.J. Trow |
| • |
Peter Maxwell:
widowed teacher and golden-hearted cynic in England |
| Nicola Upson |
| • |
Josephine Tey: the
mystery writer in 1930s Britain |
| Jo Walton |
| • |
Peter Carmichael: Scotland
Yard inspector, in an alternative history starting in 1949 Britain,
where WWII ended with a truce in 1941 |
| Stella Whitelaw |
| • |
Jordan Lacey:
ex-cop, start-up private investigator, in Latching, England |
| Charlie Williams |
| • |
Royston Blake:
head doorman at Hopper’s Wine Bar & Bistro, in the town
of Mangel, in the West Country of England |
| Derek Wilson |
| • |
George Keene: spy
in William Pitt’s intelligence service during
England's war with France in the 1790s |
| Pauline Glen Winslow |
| • |
Merle Capricorn:
former vaudeville magician turned police superintendent in England |
| Keith Wright |
| • |
David Stark: police
inspector in England |
| Patricia Wynn |
| • |
Gideon St. Mars:
viscount who becomes the highwayman Blue Satan,
and his friend Mrs. Kean, in early 18th century England |
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