Editing Detective fiction (section)

==Detective debuts and swan songs==
Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story. Here is a list of a few [[wikt:debut|debut]] stories and final appearances.
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{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Detective
! Author
! Debut
! Final appearance
|-
| [[Misir Ali]]
| [[Humayun Ahmed]]
| ''Devi'' || ''Jakhan Namibe Andhar''
|-
| [[Roderick Alleyn]]
| [[Ngaio Marsh]]
| ''[[A Man Lay Dead]]'' || ''[[Light Thickens]]''
|-
| [[Lew Archer]]
| [[Ross Macdonald]]
| ''[[The Moving Target]]'' || ''The Blue Hammer'' 
|-
| [[Byomkesh Bakshi]]
| [[Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay]]
| ''[[Satyanweshi (novel)|Satyanweshi]]'' || ''Bishupal Badh''
|-
| [[Inspector Alan Banks|Alan Banks]]
| [[Peter Robinson (novelist)|Peter Robinson]]
| ''[[Gallows View]]''
|-
| [[Parashor Barma]]
| [[Premendra Mitra]]
| ''Goenda Kobi Parashar'' || ''Ghanada O Dui Doshor Mamababu O Parashar''
|-
| [[Tom Barnaby]]
| [[Caroline Graham (writer)|Caroline Graham]]
| ''[[The Killings at Badger's Drift]]''
| ''[[A Ghost in the Machine]]''
|-
| J. P. Beaumont
| [[J. A. Jance]]
| ''Until Proven Guilty''
|-
| [[Martin Beck]]
| [[Maj Sjöwall]] and [[Per Wahlöö]]
| ''[[Roseanna (novel)|Roseanna]]'' || ''[[The Terrorists]]''
|-
| [[Bimal]]
| [[Hemendra Kumar Roy]]
| ''[[Jakher Dhan]]''
|-
| [[Anita Blake]]
| [[Laurell K. Hamilton]]
| ''[[Guilty Pleasures (novel)|Guilty Pleasures]]''
|-
| [[Sexton Blake]]
| [[Harry Blyth]], [[George Hamilton Teed]], [[Edwy Searles Brooks]]
| ''The Missing Millionaire''
|-
| [[Harry Bosch]]
| [[Michael Connelly]]
| ''The Black Echo''
|-
| Joanna Brady
| [[J. A. Jance]]
| ''Desert Heat''
|-
| [[Jackson Brodie]]
| [[Kate Atkinson (writer)|Kate Atkinson]]
| ''[[Case Histories]]''
|-
| [[Father Brown]]
| [[G. K. Chesterton]]
| "[[The Blue Cross (short story)|The Blue Cross]]" || "The Mask of Midas"
|-
| [[Brother Cadfael]]
| [[Ellis Peters]]
| ''[[A Morbid Taste for Bones]]'' || ''[[Brother Cadfael's Penance]]''
|-
| Jack Caffery
| [[Mo Hayder]]
| ''[[Birdman (novel)|Birdman]]'' || ''Wolf''
|-
| [[Vincent Calvino]]
| [[Christopher G. Moore]]
| ''Spirit House''
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[Albert Campion]]
| rowspan="3" | [[Margery Allingham]]
| rowspan="3" | ''[[The Crime at Black Dudley]]''
| ''[[The Mind Readers]]'' (last story completed by Allingham)
|-
| ''Mr. Campion's Falcon'' (last story completed by [[Philip Youngman Carter]])
|-
| ''(Series continues written by [[Mike Ripley]])''
|-
| Georgia Cantini
| [[Grazia Verasani]]
| ''[http://www.italicapress.com/index488.html Quo Vadis, Baby?]''
|-
| [[Nick and Nora Charles]]
| [[Dashiell Hammett]]
| colspan="2" | ''[[The Thin Man]]'' 
|-
| Cao Chen
| [[Qiu Xiaolong|Xiaolong Qiu]]
| ''[[Death of a Red Heroine]]'' 
|-
| [[Elvis Cole]]
| [[Robert Crais]]
| ''[[The Monkey's Raincoat]]''
|-
| Quinn Colson
| [[Ace Atkins]]
| ''The Ranger''
|-
| [[The Continental Op]]
| [[Dashiell Hammett]]
| ''Arson Plus''
| ''[[The Dain Curse]]''
|-
| Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne
| [[David Roberts (novelist)|David Roberts]]
| ''Sweet Poison'' || ''Sweet Sorrow''
|-
| [[Jerry Cornelius]]
| [[Michael Moorcock]]
| ''[[The Final Programme]]''
|-
| [[Dr. Phil D'Amato]]
| [[Paul Levinson]]
| [[Phil D'Amato#The Novelettes|"The Chronology Protection Case"]]
|-
| [[Harry D'Amour]]
| [[Clive Barker]]
| [[Books of Blood|"The Last Illusion"]]
|-
| [[Adam Dalgliesh]]
| [[PD James]]
| ''[[Cover Her Face]]'' || ''[[The Private Patient]]''
|-
| [[Dalziel and Pascoe|Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe]]
| [[Reginald Hill]]
| ''[[A Clubbable Woman]]'' || ''Midnight Fugue''
|-
| [[Peter Decker]]
| [[Faye Kellerman]]
| ''The Ritual Bath''
|-
| [[Alex Delaware]]
| [[Jonathan Kellerman]]
| ''When the Bough Breaks'' ||
|-
| [[Harry Devlin (fictional detective)|Harry Devlin]]
| [[Martin Edwards (author)|Martin Edwards]]
| ''All the Lonely People''
|-
| Peter Diamond
| [[Peter Lovesey]]
| ''[[The Last Detective (book)|The Last Detective]]''
|-
| [[Harry Dresden]]
| [[Jim Butcher]]
| ''Storm Front''
|-
| [[Nancy Drew]]
| [[Carolyn Keene]]
| ''[[The Secret of the Old Clock]]''
|-
| [[Auguste Dupin]]
| [[Edgar Allan Poe]]
| ''[[The Murders in the Rue Morgue]]'' || ''[[The Purloined Letter]]''
|-
| [[Marcus Didius Falco]]
| [[Lindsey Davis]]
| ''[[The Silver Pigs]]''
|-
| [[Feluda]]
| [[Satyajit Ray]]
| ''[[Feludar Goendagiri]]'' || ''Robertson-er Ruby''
|-
| [[Erast Fandorin]]
| [[Boris Akunin]]
| ''[[The Winter Queen (novel)|The Winter Queen]]''
|-
| [[Kate Fansler]]
| [[Carolyn Gold Heilbrun|Amanda Cross]]
| ''In the Last Analysis''
| ''The Edge of Doom''
|-
| [[Dr. Gideon Fell]]
| [[John Dickson Carr]]
| ''Hag's Nook'' || ''Dark of the Moon''
|-
| [[John Fielding|Sir John Fielding]] and Jeremy Proctor
| [[Bruce Alexander Cook|Bruce Alexander]]
| ''[[Blind Justice (novel)|Blind Justice]]''
|-
| Tecumseh Fox
| [[Rex Stout]]
| ''Double for Death'' || ''The Broken Vase''
|-
| [[List of Case Closed characters#Rei Furuya|Rei Furuya]]
| [[Gosho Aoyama]]
| ''[[Detective Conan]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Dirk Gently|Dirk Gently (Svlad Cjelli)]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Douglas Adams]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'' 
| ''[[The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul]]'' (last completed work)
|-
| ''[[The Salmon of Doubt]]'' (unfinished)
|- 
| [[Inspector Ghote|Ganesh Ghote]]
| [[H. R. F. Keating]]
| ''[[The Perfect Murder (novel)|The Perfect Murder]]'' || ''A Small Case for Inspector Ghote?''
|-
| [[George Gideon]]
| [[John Creasey]]
| ''[[Gideon's Day]]''
| ''Gideon's Drive''
|-
| [[Gordianus the Finder]]
| [[Steven Saylor]]
| ''Roman Blood''
|-
| [[Saguru Hakuba]]
| [[Gosho Aoyama]]
| ''[[Magic Kaito]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Mike Hammer (character)|Mike Hammer]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Mickey Spillane]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[I, the Jury]]''
| ''[[Black Alley]]'' (last story completed by Spillane)
|-
| ''(Series continues from unfinished Spillane manuscripts completed by [[Max Allan Collins]])''
|-
| [[The Hardy Boys]]
| ([[Franklin W Dixon|ghostwriter]]s)
| ''[[The Tower Treasure]]''
|-
| [[Harley Hartwell|Heiji Hattori]]
| [[Gosho Aoyama]]
| ''[[Detective Conan]]''
|-
| [[Dixon Hawke]]
| Unknown author for DC Thomson 
| ''The Great Hotel Mystery''
|-
| [[Dr. Tony Hill|Tony Hill]]
| [[Val McDermid]]
| ''[[The Mermaids Singing]]''
|-
| Neil Hockaday
| [[Thomas Adcock]]
| ''Sea of Green''
| ''Grief Street''
|-
| [[Sherlock Holmes]]
| [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]]
| ''[[A Study in Scarlet]]'' || ''[[The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place]]''
|-
| [[Jayanta]]
| [[Hemendra Kumar Roy]]
| ''Jayanter Keerti'' || 
|-
| Art Keller
| [[Don Winslow]]
| ''[[The Power of the Dog (Winslow novel)|The Power of the Dog]]''
|-
| [[Craig Kennedy]]
| [[Arthur B. Reeve]]
| ''The Silent Bullet'' || ''The Stars Scream Murder''
|-
| [[Sammy Keyes]]
| [[Wendelin Van Draanen]]
| Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
|-
| [[Kikira]]
| [[Bimal Kar]]
| ''Kapalikera Ekhono Ache'' || ''Ekti Photo Churir Rahasya''
|-
| [[Shinichi Kudo]] / Conan Edogawa
| [[Gosho Aoyama]]
| ''[[Detective Conan]]''|| &nbsp;
|-
| [[Jake Lassiter]]
| [[Paul Levine]]
| "To Speak For The Dead"
|-
| Charles Latimer
| [[Eric Ambler]]
| ''[[The Mask of Dimitrios]]'' (AKA ''A Coffin for Dimitrios'')
| ''The Intercom Conspiracy''
|-
| [[Joe Leaphorn]]
| [[Tony Hillerman]]
| ''[[The Blessing Way]]''
|-
| [[Nelson Lee (detective)|Nelson Lee]]
| [[John William Staniforth|Maxwell Scott]]
| ''A Dead Man's Secret'' || ''Waldo, the Gang Buster''
|-
| Inspector Lund
| [[Willy Corsari]]
| ''Het Mysterie van de Mondscheinsonate'' (''The Mystery of the Moonlight Sonata'')
| ''Spelen met de Dood'' (''Playing with Death'')
|-
| [[Thomas Lynley]] and [[Barbara Havers]]
| [[Elizabeth George]]
| ''[[A Great Deliverance]]''
|-
| John Madden
| [[Rennie Airth]]
| ''River of Darkness''
|-
| [[Jules Maigret]]
| [[Georges Simenon]]
| ''[[The Strange Case of Peter the Lett]]'' || ''[[Maigret and Monsieur Charles]]''
|-
| [[Philip Marlowe]]
| [[Raymond Chandler]]
| ''[[The Big Sleep]]'' || ''[[Playback (novel)|Playback]]''
|-
| [[Miss Marple]]
| [[Agatha Christie]]
| ''[[The Murder at the Vicarage]]'' || ''[[Sleeping Murder]]''
|-
| Darren Matthews
| [[Attica Locke]]
| ''[[Bluebird, Bluebird]]''
|-
| [[Travis McGee]]
| [[John D. MacDonald]]
| ''[[The Deep Blue Good-by]]'' || ''[[The Lonely Silver Rain]]''
|-
| [[Sir Henry Merrivale]]
| [[Carter Dickson]]
| ''[[The Plague Court Murders]]'' || ''[[The Cavalier's Cup]]''
|-
| [[Kinsey Millhone]]
| [[Sue Grafton]]
| ''[["A" Is for Alibi]]''
| ''[["Y" Is for Yesterday]]''
|-
| Kiyoshi Mitarai
| [[Soji Shimada]]
| ''[[The Tokyo Zodiac Murders]]''
| ''Final Pitch''
|-
| [[Kogoro Mouri|Kogoro Mori]]
| [[Gosho Aoyama]]
| ''[[Detective Conan]]''
|-
| [[Inspector Morse]]
| [[Colin Dexter]]
| ''Last Bus to Woodstock'' || ''Remorseful Day''
|-
| [[Thursday Next]]
| [[Jasper Fforde]]
| ''[[The Eyre Affair]]''
|-
| Gideon Oliver
| [[Aaron Elkins]]
| ''Fellowship of Fear''
|-
| Jimmy Perez
| [[Ann Cleeves]]
| ''[[Raven Black]]''
|-
| [[Stephanie Plum]]
| [[Janet Evanovich]]
| ''One for the Money''
|-
| [[Hercule Poirot]]
| [[Agatha Christie]]
| ''[[The Mysterious Affair at Styles]]'' || ''[[Curtain (novel)|Curtain]]''
|-
| [[Ellery Queen]]
| [[Ellery Queen]]
| ''[[The Roman Hat Mystery]]'' || ''A Fine and Private Place''
|-
| [[Jack Reacher]]
| [[Lee Child]]
| ''[[Killing Floor (novel)|Killing Floor]]''
|-
| [[Precious Ramotswe]]
| [[Alexander McCall Smith]]
| ''[[The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency]]''
|-
| [[Detective Inspector John Rebus|John Rebus]]
| [[Ian Rankin]]
| ''[[Knots and Crosses]]''
|-
| [[Dave Robicheaux]]
| [[James Lee Burke]]
| ''The Neon Rain''
|-
| [[Kiriti Roy]]
| [[Nihar Ranjan Gupta]]
| ''[[Kalo Bhramar]]'' || ''Avagunthita''
|-
| [[Lincoln Rhyme]]
| [[Jeffery Deaver]]
| ''[[The Bone Collector (novel)|The Bone Collector]]''
|-
|Huo Sang 
|[[:zh:程小青|Chen Xiaoqing]]
|''The Shadow in the Lamplight''
|-
| [[Matthew Scudder]]
| [[Lawrence Block]]
| The Sins of the Fathers
|-
| [[List of Case Closed characters#Masumi Sera|Masumi Sera]]
| [[Gosho Aoyama]]
| ''[[Detective Conan]]''
|-
| Dan Shepherd
| [[Stephen Leather]]
| ''True Colours'' 
|-
| [[Miss Silver]]
| [[Patricia Wentworth]]
| ''Grey Mask''
| ''The Girl in the Cellar''
|-
| Arthur Simpson
| [[Eric Ambler]]
| ''[[The Light of Day (Eric Ambler novel)|The Light of Day]]'' || ''Dirty Story''
|-
| Rabbi David Small
| [[Harry Kemelman]]
| ''[[Friday the Rabbi Slept Late]]'' || ''That Day the Rabbi Left Town''
|-
| [[Sam Spade]]
| [[Dashiell Hammett]]
| [[The Maltese Falcon (novel)|''The Maltese Falcon'']]
| ''They Can Only Hang You Once''
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Spenser (fictional detective)|Spenser]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Robert B. Parker]]
| rowspan="2" | ''The Godwulf Manuscript''
| ''[[Sixkill (novel)|Sixkill]]'' (last novel completed by Parker)
|-
| ''(Series continues written by [[Ace Atkins]])''
|-
| Vera Stanhope
| [[Ann Cleeves]]
| ''The Crow Trap''
|-
| [[Cormoran Strike]]
| [[J.K. Rowling]] (under the pen name Robert Galbraith)
| ''[[The Cuckoo's Calling]]''
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[The Adventures of Tintin|Tintin]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Hergé]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Tintin in the Land of the Soviets]]'' 
| ''[[Tintin and the Picaros]]'' (last completed work)
|-
| ''[[Tintin and Alph-Art]]'' (unfinished)
|-
| [[Tommy and Tuppence]] (Thomas and Prudence Beresford)
| [[Agatha Christie]]
| ''[[The Secret Adversary]]'' || ''[[Postern of Fate]]''
|-
| [[Philip Trent]]
| [[Edmund Clerihew Bentley|E. C. Bentley]]
| ''[[Trent's Last Case (novel)|Trent's Last Case]]'' 
| ''Trent Intervenes''
|-
| [[Kurt Wallander]]
| [[Henning Mankell]]
| ''[[Faceless Killers]]''
| ''[[The Troubled Man]]''
|-
| [[V.I. Warshawski]]
| [[Sara Paretsky]]
| ''[[Indemnity Only]]''
|-
| Willam Warwick
| [[Jeffrey Archer]]
| ''Nothing Ventured''
|-
| [[Inspector Wexford|Reginald Wexford]]
| [[Ruth Rendell]]
| ''[[From Doon with Death]]''
| ''[[No Man's Nightingale]]''
|-
| rowspan="3" | [[Lord Peter Wimsey]]
| rowspan="3" | [[Dorothy L. Sayers]]
| rowspan="3" | ''[[Whose Body?]]''
| ''[[Busman's Honeymoon]]'' (last novel completed by Sayers) 
|-
| "Talboys" (last story written by Sayers)
|-
|''[[The Late Scholar]]'' (last story completed by [[Jill Paton Walsh]])
|-
| rowspan="2" | [[Nero Wolfe]]
| rowspan="2" | [[Rex Stout]]
| rowspan="2" | ''[[Fer-de-Lance (novel)|Fer-de-Lance]]''
| ''[[A Family Affair (novel)|A Family Affair]]'' (last novel completed by Stout)
|-
| ''(Series continues written by [[Robert Goldsborough (writer)|Robert Goldsborough]])''
|-
| Manabu Yukawa
| [[Keigo Higashino]]
| ''Tantei Galileo'' (AKA ''Detective Galileo'')
|}