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==List of fictional historical detectives==
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The following list consists of fictional historical detectives in chronological order of their time period setting:

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! style="background:#ccc; width:20%;"| Detective                      || style="background:#ccc; width:10%;"| Setting                         || style="background:#ccc; width:10%;"| Period                || style="background:#ccc; width:20%;"| Creator                      || style="background:#ccc; width:20%;"| Debut Title                           || style="background:#ccc; width:10%;"| Debut Year
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|[[Lieutenant Bak]]             || [[Ancient Egypt]]               ||data-sort-value="-1500"| 15th century BCE             || [[Lauren Haney]]             || ''[[The Right Hand of Amon]]''        || 1997
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|[[Amerokte]]                   || Ancient Egypt                   ||data-sort-value="-1500"| 15th century BCE             || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]]    || ''[[The Mask of Ra]]''         || 1998
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|[[Lord Meren]]<ref name="WSJ 2010"/>  || Ancient Egypt            || data-sort-value="-1400"|14th century BCE             || [[Lynda S. Robinson]]        || ''[[Murder in the Place of Anubis]]'' || 1994
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|[[Rahotep (character)|Rahotep]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/> || Ancient Egypt || data-sort-value="-1400"|14th century BCE  || [[Nick Drake (poet)|Nick Drake]] || ''[[Nefertiti: The Book of the Dead]]'' || 2006
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|[[Heracles Pontor]]            || [[Classical Athens]]            || data-sort-value="-450"|Late 5th century BCE         || [[José Carlos Somoza]]       || ''[[The Athenian Murders]]''          || 2000
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|[[Nicolaos (Corby character)|Nicolaos]]    || Classical Athens    || data-sort-value="-500"|5th century BCE              || [[Gary Corby]]               || ''[[The Pericles Commission]]''       || 2010
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|[[Aristotle]]            || [[Classical Athens]]            || data-sort-value="-450"|4th century BCE         || [[Margaret Doody]]       || ''[[Margaret Doody#The Aristotle series|Aristotle Detective]]''          || 1978
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|[[Alexander the Great]]        || [[Ancient Greece]]              || data-sort-value="-400"|4th century BCE              || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]] || ''[[A Murder in Macedon]]''       || 1997
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|Senator Decius Metellus || [[Roman Republic]] ||data-sort-value="-99"| 1st century BCE              || [[John Maddox Roberts]]      ||''[[SPQR series|SPQR]]''               || 1990<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>
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|[[Gordianus the Finder]]       || Roman Republic              || data-sort-value="-99"|1st century BCE              || [[Steven Saylor]]            || ''[[Roman Blood]]''                   || 1991<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>
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|Marcus Corvinus || [[Rome]] || data-sort-value="19"|1st century CE  || David Wishart      || ''Ovid''                              || 1995
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|[[Marcus Didius Falco]]        || [[Roman Empire]]                || data-sort-value="70"|70 to 77 CE                  || [[Lindsey Davis]]            || ''[[The Silver Pigs]]''               || 1989<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/><ref name="WSJ 2010"/>
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|[[The Roman Mysteries|Flavia Gemina]] || Roman Empire || data-sort-value="79"|79 to 81 CE || [[Caroline Lawrence]] || ''[[The Thieves of Ostia]]''               || 2001
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|[[Flavia Albia]]        || [[Roman Empire]]                || data-sort-value="89"|89 CE                  || [[Lindsey Davis]]            || ''[[The Ides of April]]''               || 2013
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|Gaius Petreius Ruso     || Roman Empire   || data-sort-value="150"| 2nd century CE || [[Ruth Downie]]   || ''Ruso and the Disappearing Dancing Girls'' (U.S. title: ''Medicus'')        || 2006
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|[[Libertus (character)|Libertus]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>     || Roman Empire   || data-sort-value="150"| Late 2nd century CE || [[Rosemary Rowe]]   || ''[[The Germanicus Mosaic]]''         || 1999
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|[[John, the Lord Chamberlain]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/> || [[Constantinople]]  || data-sort-value="500"|6th century  || [[Mary Reed (writer)|Mary Reed]]/[[Eric Mayer]] || ''[[One for Sorrow (1999 novel)|One for Sorrow]]''  || 1999<ref name="PW One4Sorrow">{{cite web |url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-890208-19-6 |title=Fiction Book Review: ''One for Sorrow'' |date=15 November 1999 |access-date=20 November 2013 |work=Publishers Weekly |archive-date=2 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200358/http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-890208-19-6 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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|[[Judge Dee]]                  || [[China]]                       || data-sort-value="600"|7th century                  || [[Robert van Gulik]]         || ''[[Di Gong An]]''                    || 1949<ref name="Dee Herbert"/><ref name="Dee Hegel"/>
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|[[Li Kao]]                     || China                           || data-sort-value="600"|7th century                  || [[Barry Hughart]]            || ''[[Bridge of Birds]]''               || 1984
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|[[Sister Fidelma]]             || [[Ireland]]                     || data-sort-value="600"|7th century                  || [[Peter Tremayne]]           || ''[[Absolution by Murder]]''          || 1994
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|Father George                  || [[Byzantine Empire]]            || data-sort-value="700"|8th century                  || [[Harry Turtledove]]         || ''Farmers' Law''                      || 2000
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|[[Sugawara Akitada]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>  || [[Japan]]    || data-sort-value="1000"|11th century                 || [[I. J. Parker]]             || ''[[Instruments of Murder]]''           || 1997
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|[[Lassair]]                    || [[England]]                     ||data-sort-value="1000"|11th century                 || [[Alys Clare]]               || ''[[Out of the Dawn Light]]''         || 2009
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|[[Cadfael|Brother Cadfael]]    || [[Wales]] and England           ||data-sort-value="1120"| 1120, 1137–1145              || [[Ellis Peters]]             || ''[[A Morbid Taste for Bones]]''      || 1977<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/><ref name="WSJ 2010"/><ref name="Cadfael"/>
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|Justin de Quincy               || England                         || data-sort-value="1100"|12th century                 || [[Sharon Kay Penman]]        || ''[[The Queen's Man]]''               || 1996
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|[[Josse d'Acquin]]/[[Abbess of Hawkenlye]]      || England        ||data-sort-value="1100"| 12th century                 || [[Alys Clare]]               || ''[[Fortune Like the Moon]]''         || 1999
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|Magdalene la a Bâtarde         || [[London]]                      ||data-sort-value="1100"| 12th century                 || [[Roberta Gellis]]           || ''A Mortal Bane''                     || 1999
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|[[Adelia Aguilar]]             || England                         || data-sort-value="1100"|12th century                 || [[Ariana Franklin]]          || ''[[Mistress of the Art of Death]]''  || 2007<ref name="Norman obit"/>
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|[[Hugh Corbett]]               || England                         ||data-sort-value="1200"| 13th century                 || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]]  || ''[[Satan in St Mary's]]''       || 1986
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|Theophilos (Feste)             || [[Illyria]], Constantinople,<br> [[Tyre, Lebanon|Tyre]], [[Denmark]], etc.  ||data-sort-value="1200"| 13th century || [[Alan Gordon (author)|Alan Gordon]]  || ''Thirteenth Night'' || 1999
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|Edwin Weaver                   || England                         ||data-sort-value="1200"|  13th century                 || [[Catherine Hanley]]         || ''The Sins of the Father''            || 2009
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|Oldřich of Chlum               || [[Bohemia]] and [[Moravia]]     ||data-sort-value="1200"|  13th century                 || [[Vlastimil Vondruška]] || ''Dýka s hadem'' (''Dagger with a snake'') || 2002
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|[[William of Baskerville|Brother William of Baskerville]]  || [[Italy]]  || 1327                  || [[Umberto Eco]]              || ''[[The Name of the Rose]]''          || 1980
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| Baldwin de Furnshill          || Devon                           || data-sort-value="1300"| 14th century                 || [[Michael Jecks]]            || ''The Last Templar''                  || 1995
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|[[Matthew Bartholomew (character)|Matthew Bartholomew]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/> || England  ||data-sort-value="1300"| 14th century || [[Susanna Gregory]]  || ''[[A Plague on Both Your Houses]]'' || 1996
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|[[Mathilde of Westminster]]    || England                         || data-sort-value="1300"|14th century                 || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]] || ''The Cup of Ghosts''             || 2005
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|[[Brother Athelstan]]          || London                          ||data-sort-value="1350"| Late 14th century            || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]] || ''[[The Nightingale Gallery]]''   || 1991
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|[[Owen Archer]]                || York                            || data-sort-value="1350"|Late 14th century            || [[Candace Robb]]             || ''[[The Apothecary Rose]] ''          || 1993
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|[[Melchior Wakenstede]]          || [[Estonia]]                      || data-sort-value="1400"|Early 15th century                 || [[Indrek Hargla]]              || ''Apothecary Melchior and the Mystery of St Olaf's Church''         || 2010
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|[[Roger the Chapman]]          || England                         || data-sort-value="1400"|15th century                 || [[Kate Sedley]]              || ''[[Death and the Chapman]]''         || 1991
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|Dame Frevisse<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>   || [[Oxfordshire]]    || data-sort-value="1400"|15th century                 || [[Margaret Frazer]]          || ''The Novice's Tale''                 || 1992
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|[[Kathryn Swinbrooke]]         || England                         ||data-sort-value="1400"| 15th century                 || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]] || ''[[A Shrine of Murders]]''       || 1993
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|Acatl, High Priest of Mictlantecuhtli ||[[Tenochtitlan]]          ||1480                || [[Aliette de Bodard]] || ''Obsidian Shards'' (novella)      || 2007
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|Cesare Aldo              || [[Florence |Florence, Italy]]       || data-sort-value="1500"|1536                 || [[David Bishop (writer)|D.V. bishop]] || ''City of Vengeance''    || 2021
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|Sigismondo              || [[Italian Renaissance]]       || data-sort-value="1500"|15th century                 || [[Elizabeth Eyre]] || ''Death of the Duchess''    || 1991
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|[[Roger Shallot|Sir Roger Shallot]]              || England       || data-sort-value="1500"|16th century                 || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]] || ''[[The White Rose Murders]]''    || 1991
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|[[Nicholas Segalla]]           || {{unbulleted list| England | [[Edinburgh]] | [[France]] | [[Vienna]]}} || data-sort-value="1558"| {{unbulleted list| 1558 | 1567 | 1793 | 1889}} || [[Paul C. Doherty|Paul Doherty]] ||''[[A Time for the Death of a King]]'' || 1994
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|[[Matthew Shardlake]] || London ||data-sort-value="1500"| 16th century || [[C. J. Sansom]] || ''[[Dissolution (Sansom novel)|Dissolution]]'' || 2003
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|[[Bianca Goddard]] || London ||data-sort-value="1500"| 16th century || [[Mary Lawrence (writer)|Mary Lawrence]] || ''[[The Alchemist's Daughter (Lawrence novel)|The Alchemist's Daughter]]'' || 2015
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|Giordano Bruno || London || data-sort-value="1500"|16th century || [[Stephanie Merritt|S. J. Parris]] || ''Heresy'' || 2010
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|[[Patricia Finney|Sir Robert Carey]]  || Carlisle, then London    || data-sort-value="1550"|Late 16th century            || [[Patricia Finney|Patricia Finney (writing as P F Chisholm)]]   || ''[[Patricia Finney|A Famine of Horses]]''   || 1994
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|[[Sano Ichirō]]<ref name="WSJ 2010"/> || [[Genroku]]-era Japan    || data-sort-value="1600"| 17th century                || [[Laura Joh Rowland]]        || ''[[Shinjū (novel)|Shinjū]]''         || 1994
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|[[Thomas Chaloner (character)|Thomas Chaloner]]  || England       || data-sort-value="1600"|17th century                 || [[Susanna Gregory]]          || ''[[A Conspiracy of Violence]]''      || 2006
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|Benjamin Weaver    || England                                 || 1720                                                ||[[David Liss]]                || ''[[A Conspiracy of Paper]]''             || 2000
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|[[Thomas af Boueberg]] || Denmark-Norway                          || data-sort-value="1700"| Early 18th century          || [[Kurt Aust]]                || ''Vredens dag (The Day of Wrath)''    || 1999
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|[[Canaletto (character)|Canaletto]]              || England       || data-sort-value="1700"| 18th century                || [[Janet Laurence]]           || ''Canaletto and the Case of Westminster Bridge'' || 1997
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|[[John Fielding]]      || England                                 ||data-sort-value="1700"|  18th century                || [[Bruce Alexander Cook]]     || '' [[Blind Justice (novel)|Blind Justice]]'' || 1994
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|[[Lord John Grey (character)|Lord John Grey]] || England, [[Prussia]],<br>[[Scotland]] and [[Jamaica]] || 1756–1761 || [[Diana Gabaldon]] || ''[[Lord John and the Hellfire Club]]'' || 1998<ref name="LJ note"/><ref name="Gabaldon Grey"/><ref name="EW Devils"/>
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|[[Samuel Johnson]]/[[James Boswell]]   || England                 || data-sort-value="1700"| 18th century                 || [[Lillian de la Torre]]      || ''[[The Great Seal of England]]''       || 1943<ref name="DLT obit"/><ref name="DLT bio"/>
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|[[Dick Darwent]]               || England                         || 1815                  || [[John Dickson Carr]]        || ''[[The Bride of Newgate]]''          || 1950<ref name="Carr"/>
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|[[Matthew Hawkwood]]           || England                         ||data-sort-value="1700"|  18th century                 || [[James McGee (author)|James McGee]]       || ''[[Trigger Men]]''     || 1985
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|[[Sergeant Cribb (character)|Sergeant Cribb]]      || England     ||data-sort-value="1800"|  19th century          || [[Peter Lovesey]]            || ''[[Wobble to Death]]''               || 1970
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|[[Thomas Pitt (fictional character)|Thomas Pitt]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>  || England  || data-sort-value="1800"|19th century  || [[Anne Perry]] || ''[[The Cater Street Hangman]]''   || 1979
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|[[William Monk]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/> || England           || data-sort-value="1800"|19th century          || [[Anne Perry]]                  || ''[[The Face of a Stranger]]''     || 1990
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|[[Mrs. Jeffries]]              || England                         ||data-sort-value="1800"| 19th century          || [[Emily Brightwell]]         || ''[[The Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries]]''    || 1993
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|[[Hanno Stiffeniis]]              || Prussia                       ||data-sort-value="1800"| Early 19th century          || [[Michael Gregorio]]         || ''[[Critique of Criminal Reason]]''    || 2006
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|[[Edmund Blackstone]]          || England                         || 1820s                 || [[Richard Falkirk]]          || ''[[Blackstone (novel)|Blackstone]]'' || 1972
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|[[Benjamin January]]           || [[New Orleans]]                 || 1833                  || [[Barbara Hambly]]           || ''[[A Free Man of Color (Hambly novel)|A Free Man of Color]]'' || 1997
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|[[Yashim the Eunuch]]          || [[Ottoman Empire]]              || 1836                  || [[Jason Goodwin]]            || ''[[The Janissary Tree]]''            || 2006
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|[[Uncle Abner]]                || [[West Virginia]]               || data-sort-value="1850"|Mid-19th century      || [[Melville Davisson Post]]     || ''[[The Angel of the Lord]]''           || 1911<ref name="Abner"/>
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|The Dante Club                || [[Boston]]                     || 1865                 || [[Matthew Pearl]]         || ''[[The Dante Club]]''   || 2003
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|[[Erast Fandorin]]             || Russia, Japan, etc.             || 1876–1914             || [[Boris Akunin]]             || ''[[The Winter Queen (novel)|The Winter Queen]]''   || 1998
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|[[Ambrose Bierce (character)|Ambrose Bierce]] || [[San Francisco]] || data-sort-value="1860"|Late 19th century    || [[Oakley Hall]]              || ''Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades''          || 1998
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|William Murdoch                || [[Toronto]]                     || 1890s                 || [[Maureen Jennings]]         || ''[[Except the Dying (novel)|Except the Dying]]''   || 1997
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|Laszlo Kreisler                || [[New York City|New York]]                     || 1896-97                 || [[Caleb Carr]]         || ''[[The Alienist]]''   || 1994
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|[[Sister Pelagia]]             || Russia                          || 1890s / Early 20th century  || [[Boris Akunin]]      || ''Pelagia and the White Bulldog''     || 2000 (Russian)<br>2006 (English)
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|[[Amelia Peabody]]<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>     || [[Egypt]]   || 1884–1923             || [[Elizabeth Peters]]         || ''[[Crocodile on the Sandbank]]''     || 1975
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|[[Alexander von Reisden]]      || [[Boston]]                      || data-sort-value="1900"|Early 20th century    || [[Sarah Smith (writer)|Sarah Smith]]    || ''[[The Vanished Child]]'' || 1992
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|Max Liebermann and Oskar Reinhardt      || [[Vienna]]                      || data-sort-value="1900"|Early 20th century    || [[Frank Tallis]]    || ''Mortal Mischief (A Death in Vienna)''|| 2005
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|[[Simon Ziele]]                || [[New York City]]               || data-sort-value="1900"|Early 20th century    || [[Stefanie Pintoff]]         || ''[[In the Shadow of Gotham]]''       || 2009
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|[[Mary Russell (character)|Mary Russell]]  || Worldwide           ||data-sort-value="1900"| Early 20th century    || [[Laurie R. King]]           || ''[[The Beekeeper's Apprentice]]''    || 1994
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|[[Isaac Bell (character)|Isaac Bell]]      || Worldwide           ||data-sort-value="1900"| Early 20th century    || [[Clive Cussler]]            || ''[[The Chase (Cussler novel)|The Chase]]''    || 1994
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|[[Joe Sandilands]]             || [[Colonial India]], [[Europe]]  || 1920s/1930s           || [[Barbara Cleverly]]         || ''[[The Last Kashmiri Rose]]''        || 2007
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|Sam Wyndham and Surendranath Bannerjee             || [[Calcutta]], [[British Raj]]  || 1920s           || [[Abir Mukherjee]]         || ''A Rising Man''        || 2016
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|[[Maisie Dobbs]] ||England ||1929-1942 ||[[Jacqueline Winspear]] ||''[[Maisie Dobbs]]'' ||2003
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|Gereon Rath  || [[Berlin]]  || 1920s/1930s           || [[Volker Kutscher]]         || ''[[Babylon Berlin]]'' ''(Der nasse fisch)'' || 2008
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|Bernie Günther<ref name="PW Picker 2010"/>  || [[Berlin]]         || 1934–1954             || [[Philip Kerr]]              || ''[[March Violets]]''                 || 1989
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|[[Laetitia Talbot]]            || [[Crete]], [[Burgundy]], [[Athens]] || 1920s             || [[Barbara Cleverly]]         || ''[[The Tomb of Zeus]]''              || 2007
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|[[Phryne Fisher]]              || [[Melbourne]]                   || 1920s                 || [[Kerry Greenwood]]          || ''[[Cocaine Blues (novel)|Cocaine Blues]]'' || 1989
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|Professor John Stableford      || England                         || 1930s                 || [[:de:Rob Reef|Rob Reef]]             ||  ''Stableford on Golf''               || 2013
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|Lady Georgiana                 || England/Scotland                || 1930s                 || [[Rhys Bowen]]               || ''Her Royal Spyness''                 || 2007
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|Alexei Korolev                 || Moscow                          || 1936                  || William Ryan                 || ''The Holy Thief''                 || 2010
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|Toby Peters             || Los Angeles                      || 1940s                  || [[Stuart M. Kaminsky]] || ''Bullet for a Star''                 || 1977  
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|Kasper Meier                   || Berlin                          || 1946                  || [[Ben Fergusson]]            || ''The Spring of Kasper Meier''        || 2014<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.london24.com/entertainment/book_review_the_spring_of_kasper_meier_by_ben_fergusson_1_3689195 |title=Book review: ''The Spring of Kasper Meier'' by Ben Fergusson |first=Beth |last=Wyatt |publisher=London24.com |date=17 July 2014 |access-date=4 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329164751/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2h5pyDsVSQVQ5rfSbHwqgN3/the-spring-of-kasper-meier-by-ben-fergusson |archive-date=29 March 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2h5pyDsVSQVQ5rfSbHwqgN3/the-spring-of-kasper-meier-by-ben-fergusson |title=''The Spring of Kasper Meier'' by Ben Fergusson |publisher=[[BBC Radio 2]] |date=2014 |access-date=4 October 2015 |archive-date=29 March 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329164751/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2h5pyDsVSQVQ5rfSbHwqgN3/the-spring-of-kasper-meier-by-ben-fergusson |url-status=live }}</ref>

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