The Most Famous Mystery Detectives
The Most Famous Mystery Detectives
Hercule Poirot
author: AgathaChristie
One   of the  most famous detective in the mystery fiction. The Belgian detective   Hercule Poirot first appeared in 1920 in Agatha Christie's first novel The   Mysterious Affair at Styles.Poirot has many characteristics which have made him   a legend all over the world - the odd moustache, the egg-shaped face and his   high opinion of himself. He will though most likely be best remembered for his   ability to solve complicated mysteries with the help of his little grey   cells.
Sherlock Holmes
author: Arthur ConanDoyle
Sherlock   Holmes is the fictional creation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote about the   detective in a series of 60 stories published between 1887 and 1927. Holmes was   famous for his extra-keen powers of observation, which he used to solve   perplexing crimes and mysteries. He operated from his flat at 221b Baker Street   in London, assisted by his friend Dr. Watson. Holmes was an immediate hit and   remains so popular that he is sometimes mistaken for a real historical figure.   Among the most famous Holmes stories are The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet.
Ellery Queen
author: ElleryQueen
Ellery Queen, who appeared for the first time in "The Roman Hat Mystery," [1929] was invented by two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee.                    Ellery   Queen serves as much as investigator as author. He can entertain his reader by   relating his own adventures or those of his father, retired Inspector Richard   Queen, of the New York Police Department. Like a bloodhound, Queen is a private   investigator who works from his apartment on West 87th Street in New York. His   stories are famous for their realistic approach to deduction, and the full   dialogues of the colorful and amusing personages who abound in them.
Father Brown
author: G. K.Chesterton
A short story collection "The Innocence of Father   Brown" (1911) began the career of one of most unlikely fictional   detectives. The stories reveal a drab and seemingly unexceptional Roman   Catholic priest -- an Englishman -- "formerly of Cobhole in Essex, and now   working in London." He is amusing and companionable, and, when you get to know   him, uncommonly witty and bright. He is also a hard-working and dedicated priest   and, in addition to that, he has an uncommon gift for solving crimes.
Philip marlowe
author: RaymondChandler
Marlowe is perhaps the leading icon of the "hard-boiled" school   of mystery writing. The fictional creation of author Raymond Chandler, Marlowe is   a private detective, a smart and tough lone wolf with a sense of honor. He works   mainly in Los Angeles (where Chandler himself had lived). In all Marlowe appears   in seven complete novels by Chandler, beginning with The Big Sleep (published 1939) and ending with Playback
Perry Mason
author: Erle StanleyGardner
The world most famous literary lawer.Gardner's first Perry Mason stories THE CASE OF THE VELVET CLAWS and THE   CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL appeared in 1933. "The character I am trying to create   for him is that of a fighter who is possessed of infinite patience," he   explained to his publisher. Perry comes off as a particularly hardboiled   lawyer/detective, throwing his weight around, duking it out with suspects,   breaking and entering, and other private eye shenanigans.Readers   were enthusiastic and he gave up law and wrote eighty more Masons.
Nero Wolfe
author: RexStout
Nero Wolfe is the   detective in a long-running series of mystery novels by Rex Stout.   He lives in an old four-story brownstone in New York City, on West Thirty-fifth Street. Living with him are his   assistant, Archie Goodwin, his cook, Fritz Brenner, and his orchid nurse,   Theodore Horstmann. He engages in detection to support his two loves, food and orchids. He says of orchids that they are "his   concubines: insipid, expensive, parasitic and temperamental." Wolfe spends the   hours of 9-11am and 4-6pm in the greenhouse on the roof, with Theodore and the   orchids; the rest of the day is spent in his office.
Lord Peter Wimsley
author: DorothySayers
Lord Peter Death   Bredon Wimsey is a fictional character in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. Among Lord Peter's hobbies, apart   from criminology, is collecting incunabula, and he is an expert on matters of food   (especially wine) and male fashion, as well as on classical music.One of Lord   Peter's cars is a 12-cylinder ("double-six"), 4-seated 1927 Daimler named "Mrs. Merdle" after a character in Little Dorrit by Charles   Dickens.
Lew Archer
author: DashiellHammett
LEW ARCHER stands with the Continental Op, Sam Spade   and Philip Marlowe as one of the few P.I's who actually define the genre. What   makes Archer unique among this group is not just the fact that the books are a   sustained narrative spanning three decades, but that they also made the genre   relevant to a changing society. The formula, where Archer reveals   past crimes reflecting Greek tragedies or have Biblical allusions, become   Macdonald's trade mark.
Sam Spade