Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. William Godwin’s – Caleb Williams – 1794

Chapter 2. Edgar Allan Poe’s – Dupin – 1841

Chapter 3. Wilkie Collins’s – Franklin Blake – 1868

Chapter 4. Robert Louis Stevenson’s – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – 1886

Chapter 5. Arthur Conan Doyle’s – Sherlock Holmes – 1889

Chapter 6. Oscar Wilde’s – Dorian Gray – 1890

Chapter 7. Henry James’s – Governess – 1898

Chapter 8. John Buchan’s – Richard Hannay – 1915

Chapter 9. G. K. Chesterton’s – Father Brown – 1910

Chapter 10. Agatha Christie’s – Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple – 1920

Chapter 11. Leslie Charteris’s – The Saint – 1928

Chapter 12. Dorothy L. Sayers’s – Lord Peter Wimsey – 1923

Chapter 13. Arthur Upfield’s – Napoleon ‘Bony’ Bonaparte – 1929

Chapter 14. Dashiell Hammett’s – Sam Spade – 1931

Chapter 15. Ngaio Marsh’s – Roderick Alleyn – 1934

Chapter 16. Rex Stout’s – Nero Wolfe – 1934

Chapter 17. Graham Greene’s – Pinkie Brown – 1938

Chapter 18. Raymond Chandler’s – Philip Marlowe – 1939

Chapter 19. Ross Macdonald’s – Lew Archer – 1946

Chapter 20. Ian Fleming’s – James Bond – 1953

Chapter 21. Patricia Highsmith’s – Tom Ripley – 1955

Chapter 22. Richard Stark’s – Parker – 1959

Chapter 23. P. D. James’s – Adam Dalgliesh – 1962

Chapter 24. John Le Carré’s – George Smiley – 1963

Chapter 25. Ruth Rendell’s – Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford –1964

Chapter 26. John D. MacDonald’s – Travis McGee – 1964

Chapter 27. Reginald Hill’s –Dalziel and Pascoe – 1970

Chapter 28. Frederick Forsyth’s – Jackal – 1971

Chapter 29. Colin Dexter’s – Inspector Morse – 1975

Chapter 30. Ken Follett’s – Godliman and Bloggs – 1978

Chapter 31. Umberto Eco’s – Adso of Melk – 1980

Chapter 32. Robert Ludlum’s – Jason Bourne – 1980

Chapter 33. Martin Cruz Smith’s – Arkady Renko – 1981

Chapter 34. Sarah Paretsky’s – V. I Warshawski – 1982

Chapter 35. Colin Forbes – Tweed – 1982

Chapter 36. Carl Hiaasen’s – Florida – 1986

Chapter 37. Ian Rankin’s – John Rebus – 1987

Chapter 38. James Lee Burke’s – Dave Robicheaux – 1987

Chapter 39. Robert Crais’s – Elvis Cole – 1987

Chapter 40. James Ellroy’s – Los Angeles – 1987

Chapter 41. Michael Dibdin’s – Aurelio Zen – 1988

Chapter 42. John Grisham’s – ‘The Lawyers’ – 1989

Chapter 43. Walter Mosley’s – Fearless Jones and Easy Rawlins – 1990

Chapter 44. Patricia Cornwall’s – Kay Scarpetta – 1990

Chapter 45. Lynda La Plante’s – D. C. I. Jane Tennison – 1991

Chapter 46. Michael Connelly’s – Hieronymous ‘Harry’ Bosch – 1992

Chapter 47. Donna Leon’s – Commissario Brunetti – 1992

Chapter 48. Henning Mankell’s – Kurt Wallander – 1993

Chapter 49. Quintin Jardine’s – D. S. Bob Skinner – 1993

Chapter 50. Barry Maitland’s – D. C. I. Brock and D. S. Kolla – 1994

Chapter 51. Val McDermid’s – Dr Tony Hill – 1995

Chapter 52. Janet Evanovich’s – Stephanie Plum – 1995

Chapter 53. Linda Fairstein’s – Alexandra Cooper – 1996

Chapter 54. David Baldacci’s – ‘The Washingtonians’ – 1996

Chapter 55. Edmund Bohan’s – Inspector Patrick O’Rorke – 1996

Chapter 56. Peter Temple’s – Jack Irish – 1996

Chapter 57. Lee Child’s – Jack Reacher – 1997

Chapter 58. Kathy Reichs’s – Temperance Brennan – 1997

Chapter 59. Boris Akunin’s – Erast Fandorin –1998

Chapter 60. Mo Hayder’s – D. I. Jack Cafferey and D. S. Flea Marley – 2000

Chapter 61. Dan Brown’s – Robert Langdon – 2000

Chapter 62. Tess Gerritsen’s – Detective Jane Rizzoli – 2001

Chapter 63. Mark Billingham’s – D. I. Tom Thorne – 2001

Chapter 64. Adrian McKinty’s – Michael Forsythe – 2003

Chapter 65. Peter James’s – Detective Superintendent Roy Grace – 2005

Chapter 66. Stieg Larsson’s – Lisbeth Salander – 2005

Chapter 67. Jo Nesbo’s – Harry Hole – 2005

Chapter 68. Stuart MacBride’s – D. I. Logan McRae – 2005

Chapter 69. John Banville (a. k. a. Benjamin Black’s) – Quirke – 2006

Chapter 70. Paul Cleave’s – D. I. Bill Landry and Theodore Tate – 2006

Chapter 71. Vanda Symon’s – D. C. Samantha Shephard – 2007

Chapter 72. Denise Mina’s – D. S. Alex Morrow – 2009

Chapter 73. Robert Galbraith’s (a. k. a. J. K. Rowling’s) – Cormoran Strike – 2013

Chapter 74. Gregg Hurwitz’s – Orphan X – 2016

Chapter 75. Jane Harper’s – Aaron Falk – 2017

Conclusion