| Hint | Author | First name | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgian, not French! | Agatha Christie | Hercule | Poirot | 100%
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| Elementary: The master of deduction | Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock | Holmes | 98%
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| Kind old lady with interest in knitting, gardening and murder | Agatha Christie | Jane | Marple | 80%
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| Tough but romantic Californian private investigator | Raymond Chandler | Philip | Marlowe | 70%
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| Hard-boiled PI portrayed by Humphrey Bogart in "The Maltese Falcon" | Dashiell Hammett | Sam | Spade | 62%
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| Commissaire in Paris, often with great understanding for his suspects | Georges Simenon | Jules | Maigret | 57%
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| Skinny, tattoed hacker assisting Swedish journalist Mikael Blomkvist | Stieg Larsson | Lisbeth | Salander | 52%
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| Increasingly depressive inspector in southern Sweden | Henning Mankell | Kurt | Wallander | 48%
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| Headstrong LAPD detective | Michael Connelly | Hieronymus "Harry" | Bosch | 43%
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| Music loving Detective Inspector in Edinburgh | Ian Rankin | John | Rebus | 32%
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| The first of his kind, investigating "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" | Edgar Allan Poe | C. Auguste | Dupin | 28%
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| Forensic anthropologist working in Montreal and Charlotte, NC | Kathy Reichs | Temperance | Brennan | 27%
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| Commissario in Sicily named in homage of the above | Andrea Camilleri | Salvo | Montalbano | 25%
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| Commissario in Venice facing both crime and nepotism in the upper class | Donna Leon | Guido | Brunetti | 13%
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| Nihilist PI who often gets knocked out before solving murders in 15 arrondissements of Paris | Léo Malet | Nestor | Burma | 13%
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| Mildly autistic Paris commissaire who never solves murders through logic but intuition | Fred Vargas | Jean-Baptiste | Adamsberg | 8%
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| Book burning Private Eye in Barcelona with gastronomic passion | Manuel Vázquez Montalbán | Pepe | Carvalho | 8%
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| Feminist, anti-capitalist and alcoholic inspector then PI in Hamburg | Doris Gercke | Bella | Block | 5%
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| Solves delicate mysteries in the last days of the Roman Republic | John Maddox Roberts | Decius | Caecilius Metellus | 5%
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| Former police officer in Berlin who has to investigate very, very cautiously during the Nazi era | Philip Kerr | Bernhard "Bernie" | Gunther | 5%
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