|
| Douglas Adams |
| • |
Dirk Gently (alias
of Svlad Cjelli), a holistic detective who investigates based on the
fundamental interconnectedness of all things, in London, England, in
a comic, sci-fi mystery series |
| 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 |
| Campbell Armstrong (Campbell Black) |
| • |
Frank Pagan: detective from Special Branch, Scotland Yard, in London, England, combating international spies and terrorists |
| Jake Arnott |
| • |
Harry Starks: charismatic
homosexual gangster in 1960s London, England |
| Gordon Ashe (John Creasey) |
| • |
Patrick
Dawlish: works with British Intelligence and later, Scotland
Yard |
| Sam Baker |
| • |
Annie Anderson: tabloid
feature writer and fashion editor at Handbag Magazine, based in London,
England |
| H.C. Bailey |
| • |
Joshua Clunk:
Bible-spouting, hymn-singing lawyer, in London, England |
| • |
Reginald Fortune: surgeon
and medical consultant to Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| 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 |
| James Barnett |
| • |
Owen Smith: detective
chief superintendent at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Colin Bateman |
| • |
Jimmie Murphy: undercover police officer in London, England, |
| Josephine Bell |
| • |
Amy Tupper:
amateur sleuth in London, England |
| • |
Dr. David Wintringham,
Inspector Steven Mitchell of Scotland Yard, and barrister Claude
Warrington-Reeve, in 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 |
| S.J. Bolton |
| • |
Lacey Flint: a young detective constable in London, England |
| Ruth Brandon |
| • |
Reggie (Regina) Lee:
PhD art curator for the National Gallery in London, England |
| • |
Andrew Taggart: journalist
with New Politics, based in London, 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 |
| James Brownley |
| • |
Alison Glasby: crime
reporter, in 1970s 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 |
| Christopher Bush |
| • |
Ludovic Travers:
wealthy writer and amateur sleuth, later proprietor of the Broad
Street Detective Agency, along with Scotland Yard Superintendant
George Wharton and later Chief Inspector Jewle, 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 |
| Susanna Calkins |
| • |
Lucy Campion: young orphan working as a chambermaid in 1665 London, England |
| Kenneth Cameron (Gordon Kent) |
| • |
General Denton:
expatriate U.S. Civil War veteran and former frontier sheriff turned
novelist, in turn of the 20th century London, England |
| Mike Carey |
| • |
Felix Castor: free-lance
exorcist, in supernatural fantasy thrillers set in London, England |
| Carol K. Carr |
| • |
India Black, a young
madam running a brothel catering to gentlemen, in 1870s London, England |
| Jennifer Lee Carrell |
| • |
Kate Stanley:
an academic sleuth, directing Shakespeare at the rebuilt Globe Theatre
in London, England, and elsewhere |
| Jane Casey |
| • |
Maeve Kerrigan: ambitious
young detective constable, in London, England |
| Cassandra Chan |
| • |
Jack Gibbons: detective
sergeant at Scotland Yard, and Phillip Bethancourt his rich friend,
man-about-town from university days, in 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 |
| Paul Charles |
| • |
Christy Kennedy:
the Irish-born Detective Inspector of Camden CID in England |
| 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 |
| Mary Andrea Clarke |
| • |
Georgiana Grey:
young, independent gentlewoman, and a highwayman, the Crimson Cavalier,
in late 18th century 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 |
| Bob Cook |
| • |
Michael Wyman: 50-something
philosophy professor and MI-6 agent, based in 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 |
| Catherine Coulter & J.T. Ellison |
| • |
Nicholas Drummond: American-born chief inspector at Scotland Yard, London, England, in the Brit in the FBI series |
| David Craig (Bill James) |
| • |
Roy Rickman:
Home Officer Administrator in London, England |
| James Craig |
| • |
John Carlyle: inspector in the Metropolitan Police, 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 |
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| 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:
40-something British spy, based 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 |
| Anabel Donald |
| • |
Alex Tanner: freelance TV researcher and part-time private investigator, in London, England, in the Notting Hill mysteries |
| Charles Drummond (Kenneth Giles) |
| • |
Bob Reed:
a police sergeant under a disciplinary cloud, used for odd jobs by
Scotland Yard, in 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 |
| Lance Elliot (Keith McCarthy) |
| • |
Lance Elliot:
doctor in 1975 Thornton Heath, England |
| Loren D. Estleman |
| • |
Sherlock Holmes:
19th century consulting detective in London, England |
| Colin Falconer |
| • |
Madeleine Fox:
detective inspector in London, England |
| Richard Falkirk (Derek Lambert) |
| • |
Edmund Blackstone: Bow Street runner in early 19th-century London, England |
| Quinn Fawcett (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett) |
| • |
Mycroft
Holmes: Sherlock’s older brother, in London, England |
| Gordon Ferris |
| • |
Danny McRae: former spy turned private investigator who suffers from memory problems due to war injuries, in post-WWII 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 |
| Nicci French |
| • |
Frieda Klein: psychotherapist
in London, England |
| Mark Frost |
| • |
Arthur Conan Doyle:
doctor, author, and student of the paranormal, in late 19th century
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 |
| Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) |
| • |
Cormoran Strike: private detective, and his secretary/assistant Robin Ellacott, in London, England |
| 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 |
| Kenneth Giles |
| • |
Harry James: detective
sergeant, later inspector at Scotland Yard, based in London, England |
| E.X. Giroux |
| • |
Robert (Robby) Forsyth:
retired barrister, and Abigail (Sandy)
Sanderson, his crisply efficient secretary, in London, England |
| Philip Gooden |
| • |
Thomas Ansell:
London attorney who travels to British cathedral towns during the
Victorian era |
| • |
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 |
| Tracy Grant |
| • |
Charles Fraser: idealistic
MP and former intelligence agent, and his wife Mélanie, a
war refugee, in Regency 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 |
| Adam Hall |
| • |
Bishop: author
of books about personality under stress and an observer of other
people’s problems, and his Oxford-educated assistant, Vera
Gorringe, based in London, England |
| Patricia Hall |
| • |
Kate O’Donnell:
aspiring photographer in 1960s 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 |
| June Hampson |
| • |
Daisy Lane, caught up in gangster life starting in 1960s London and Gosport, 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 |
| Peg Herring |
| • |
Elizabeth Tudor, and her friend Simon Maldon, amateur sleuths during the reign of her father Henry VIII, in London, England, in the Simon & Elizabeth mysteries |
| 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 |
| Anne Hocking |
| • |
William Austen: chief
inspector, later Superintendent, at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Sydney Hosier |
| • |
Mrs. Hudson: housekeeper
for the other sleuth of Baker Street, in London, England |
| Lis Howell |
| • |
Kate Wilkinson: television
producer based in London, England |
| Fergus Hume |
| • |
Octavius Fanks: detective
at Scotland Yard, in London, England |
| Graham Ison |
| • |
Harry Brock:
a world-weary detective chief inspector, and Dave Poole, a scruffy
detective sergeant, in London, England |
| • |
Tommy Fox: Detective
Chief Superintendent, and the raffish, cockney head of the Flying
Squad, in London, England |
| • |
John Gaffney: Detective
Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch, and
Harry Tipper, a detective chief inspector, in London, England |
| • |
Ernest Hardcastle:
divisional detective inspector, head of CID for the Whitehall Division
of the Metropolitan Police, during World War I, in London, England |
| Lee Jackson |
| • |
Sarah Tanner: proprietor
of the Dining and Coffee Rooms and amateur sleuth, in 1850s London,
England |
| • |
Decimus Webb: Scotland
Yard inspector in 1870s 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 |
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| Julie Kaewert |
| • |
Alex Plumtree: publisher
in London, England, in the Booklover mysteries |
| M.R.C. Kasasian |
| • |
Sidney Grice: London’s most famous personal detective, and his goddaughter and ward, March Middleton, in 1880s London, England, in the Gower Street Detective series |
| Dan Kavanagh |
| • |
Nick Duffy: bisexual ex-cop turned private investigator, in London,
England |
| Jessie Keane |
| • |
Annie Bailey, later Annie Carter, on the streets of London, a gangster’s moll, and more, in early 1970s London, England |
| M.E. Kemp |
| • |
Hetty Henry, a twice-widowed and wealthy young Puritan, and Increase “Creasy” Cotton, a young minister, based in 1690s Boston, Massachusetts |
| 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 |
| Michael Kurland |
| • |
Professor
Moriarty: the Napoleon of Crime and nemesis of Sherlock Holmes,
in 1890s 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 |
| Clare Langley-Hawthorne |
| • |
Ursula Marlowe:
Oxford-educated heiress, suffragette, and aspiring journalist in
Edwardian London, England |
| Janet Laurence |
| • |
Canaletto: Italian painter in 18th century London, England |
| David Lawrence |
| • |
Stella Mooney:
Detective Sergeant in London, England |
| Paul Lawrence |
| • |
Harry Lytle: member
of the intelligence service of King Charles II, starting in 1664
in London, England |
| John Lawton |
| • |
Frederick Troy: police
sergeant and later Chief Inspector, from the late 1940s to the 1960s,
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 |
| Kevin Lewis |
| • |
Stacey Collins: single
mother, detective inspector who grew up in the slums of 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 |
| Joan Lock |
| • |
Ernest Best: detective sergeant, later inspector, starting in 1870s 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 |
| Susan Elia MacNeal |
| • |
Maggie Hope: spy for MI-5 in 1940s London, England |
| Adrian Magson |
| • |
Riley Gavin: freelance
journalist, and Frank Palmer, an ex-military policeman and private
investigator, 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 |
| Hannah March (Tim Wilson) |
| • |
Robert Fairfax:
private tutor in the 1760s in and around London, England |
| J.J. Marric (John Creasey) |
| • |
George Gideon:
Commander of Scotland Yard’s Criminal
Investigation Department |
| 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 |
| • |
Inspector Harvey
Marmion and Sergeant Joe Keedy: metropolitan police in 1915
London, England |
| • |
Christopher Redmayne,
an architect, and Jonathan Bale, a constable in 1600s London, England |
| Lew Matthews |
| • |
Horatio T. Parker:
crime reporter for the weekly Explorer, in Hampstead, England |
| Philip McCutchan |
| • |
Simon Shard: Detective Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, in London,
England |
| James McGee |
| • |
Matthew Hawkwood: former English army officer, now a Bow Street Runner, in early 19th century London |
| Rafe McGregor |
| • |
Alec Marshall: British
army major making inquiries into the will of Cecil Rhodes, at the
time of Edward VII’s coronation, in 1902 London, England |
| Jenn McKinlay |
| • |
Scarlett Parker: moving from Florida to London to run Mims’s Whims, a ladies’ hat shop, with her British cousin Vivian Tremont, in the Hat Shop mysteries |
| M.R.D. Meek |
| • |
Lennox Kemp: disbarred
solicitor working as a detective, in London England |
| D.E. Meredith |
| • |
Adolphus Hatton: professor
and forensic scientist advising the police, and his trusty assistant,
Albert Roumande, in late 1850s London, England |
| John Milne |
| • |
Jimmy Jenner: pensioned-off
cop with a wooden leg in the Stoke Newington section of London, England |
| James Mitchell |
| • |
Ron Hoggett: private
investigator with expertise at finding lost things, based in London,
England |
| Anne Morgellyn |
| • |
Louise Moon: mortuary
technician at Charity’s (Charitable Hospital
of St. Roche Without the Walls) mortuary, in London, England |
| Fidelis Morgan |
| • |
Lady Ashby de la Zouche,
Countess of Clapham, a 60-something former mistress of the deceased
Charles II, fallen on hard times, and her former maid Alpiew, around
1700 in London, England |
| R.N. Morris |
| • |
Silas “Quick-fire” Quinn: Detective Inspector in charge of the Special Crimes Unit of Scotland Yard, beginning in 1914, by R.N. Morris |
| 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 |
| Amy Myers |
| • |
Auguste Didier: master
chef in Victorian London, England |
| • |
Tom Wasp: chimney
sweep in Victorian times in the East End of London, England |
| Janet Neel |
| • |
John McLeish, DCI, and Francesca
Wilson a civil servant turned housewife,
in London, England |
| G.F. Newman |
| • |
Terry Sneed: unscrupulous
Scotland Yard inspector, based in London, England |
| Peter O’Donnell |
| • |
Modesty Blaise: gorgeous crime fighter for British Intelligence,
in London, England |
| Baroness Orczy |
| • |
Bill Owen, the Old Man in the Corner, an armchair detective who sits in a restaurant playing with string, and relates the solution of crimes to Polly Burton, a young journalist, in London, England |
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| Laurence Payne |
| • |
Sam Birkett: amusing detective inspector at Scotland Yard, and his assistant, Sergeant Saunders, in London, England |
| • |
Mark Savage: former stunt man and movie star turned private investigator after a car crash, based in London, England |
| • |
John Tibbett: petty thief turned reluctant spy and hero, in London, England |
| Caro Peacock (Gillian Linscott) |
| • |
Liberty Lane:
young woman sleuth in 1830s London, England |
| Andrea Penrose |
| • |
Lady Arianna Hadley:
posing as a French chef in an aristocratic household in 1813 London,
England |
| Andrew Pepper |
| • |
Pyke: beginning as
a Bow Street Runner in 1829-1940s 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 |
| John Pilkington |
| • |
Thomas Finbow:
master falconer in late 16th century London and Berkshire, England |
| Sarah Pinborough |
| • |
Dr. Thomas Bond: physician assisting the police investigating brutal serial killings, in 1880s London, England |
| Jeremy Potter |
| • |
Sergeant Hiscock (later
inspector) of the CID, in London, England |
| E.R. Punshon |
| • |
Inspector Carter and
Sergeant Bell, a tortoise and hare team of Scotland Yard detectives,
in London, England |
| • |
Bobby Owen, an Oxford
graduate, starting as a police constable, later a detective sergeant
then Commander of Scotland Yard, mostly in London, England |
| R.T. Raichev |
| • |
Antonia Darcy: librarian
at the Military and Naval Club, and grandmother, along with Major
Hugh Payne, in London, England |
| Claire Rayner |
| • |
Dr. George Barnabas:
forensic and general pathologist at Royal Eastern Hospital, in London,
England |
| Jon Redfern |
| • |
Inspector Owen Endersby, of the recently formed London Detective Police, in early 1840s London, England |
| Michael Ridpath |
| • |
Alex Calder: former RAF fighter pilot, now a City bond trader based
in London, England |
| Stella Rimington |
| • |
Liz Carlyle: an
agent in MI-5 Joint Counter-Terrorist Group, 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 Robertson |
| • |
Reggie and Nigel
Heath: solicitors with office space on Baker Street in London,
England, who receive letters written to Sherlock Holmes |
| Madeleine E. Robins |
| • |
Sarah Tolerance: freelance agent of inquiry in Regency London, England |
| Michael Robotham |
| • |
Joseph O’Loughlin,
a psychologist, and Vincent Ruiz, a detective inspector, in London,
England |
| Anne Rutherford |
| • |
Suzanne Thornton: former kept woman, organizing a troupe of actors at the Globe, in 1660s London, England, in the Restoration mysteries |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
| • |
Lord Peter
Wimsey: pianist, book collector, and criminologist in London,
England |
| Francis Selwyn (Donald Thomas) |
| • |
William Verity:
detective sergeant mostly in mid-19th century London, England |
| William Shaw |
| • |
Cathal Breen: detective sergeant, and WPC Helen Tozer, of the Metropolitan Police, in the late ’60s music scene, in London, England |
| Lloyd Shepherd |
| • |
Charles Horton: Thames River Police Chief, and John Harriott, a River Police magistrate, in 1810s London, England |
| Lynn Shepherd |
| • |
Charles Maddox: former Metropolitan police officer now working privately as a thief taker (detective) in 1850s London, England |
| Stav Sherez |
| • |
Jack Carrigan, a detective inspector, and Geneva Miller, a detective sergeant, in London, England |
| John Sherwood |
| • |
Celia Grant: botanist
and horticulturist in London, England |
| George Sims |
| • |
Ed Buchanan: member
of the police Special Branch, 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 |
| Kelli Stanley |
| • |
Arcturus: the Roman
governor’s doctor and investigator, in 83 AD Londinium, Britain |
| Linda Stratmann |
| • |
Frances Doughty, the young daughter of a pharmacist, and an amateur sleuth (later professional detective), in Victorian 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 |
| Martin Sylvester |
| • |
William Warner:
wine merchant and amateur sleuth, based in London, England |
| Josephine Tey |
| • |
Alan Grant:
Scotland Yard Inspector in London, England |
| Donald Thomas |
| • |
Alfred Swain: detective
inspector at Scotland Yard in late 19th century England |
| • |
Sonny Tarrant: gangster in 1930s-1940s 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 |
| Miles Tripp |
| • |
John Samson: private
investigator in London, England |
| Peter Turnbull |
| • |
Harry Vicary:
detective inspector and recovering alcoholic, 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 |
| Peter Van Greenaway |
| • |
Francis Cherry:
Scotland Yard inspector, in London, England |
| Piers Venmore-Rowland |
| • |
Rafi Khan:
a London fund manager, and detective inspector Kate Adams of the
City’s economic crime unit |
| Dan Waddell |
| • |
Nigel Barnes: genealogist
working with Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster, 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 |
| Jeri Westerson |
| • |
Crispin Guest: disgraced
knight reduced to living by his wits on the mean streets of 1384
London, England |
| Peter Whalley |
| • |
Harry Sommers: former
bouncer and con man, now a private investigator, based in London,
England |
| David Williams |
| • |
Mark Treasure:
merchant banker in London, England |
| Laura Wilson |
| • |
Ted Stratton: detective
inspector in 1940s London, England |
| Jacqueline Winspear |
| • |
Maisie Dobbs:
psychologist and investigator based in 1920s and
1930s London, England |
| Elizabeth Woodcraft |
| • |
Frankie Richmond:
30-something lesbian barrister specializing in family law, in London,
England |
| Wayne Worcester |
| • |
Sherlock Holmes:
detective in London, England, from the journals
of Dr. Watson |
| Felicity Young |
| • |
Dody McCleland: doctor in turn of the 20th century Edwardian London, England |
| P.B. Yuill |
| • |
James Hazell:
tough private investigator in the East End of London, England |
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