Bulldog Drummond
Sapper (Herman Cyril McNeile)
Tom Barnaby
Caroline Graham
Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple
Agatha Christie
Roderick Alleyn
Ngaio Marsh
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Philip Marlowe
Raymond Chandler
Travis McGee
John D. MacDonald
Harry Hole
Jo Nesbø
Adam Dalgliesh
P. D. James
Albert Campion
Margery Allingham
Mike Hammer
Mickey Spillane
Precious Ramotswe
Alexander McCall Smith
Kinsey Millhone
Sue Grafton
Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett
Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon
Dr. Kay Scarpetta
Patricia Cornwell
Sid Halley
Dick Francis
Lord Peter Wimsey
Dorothy Sayers
Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins
Walter Mosley
Kate Fansler
Amanda Cross (Carolyn Gold Heilbrun)
Nero Wolfe
Rex Stout
Inspector Wexford
Ruth Rendell
Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton
Doctor Gideon Fell
John Dickson Carr
Perry Mason
Erle Stanley Gardner
Auguste Dupin
Edgar Allan Poe
Inspector Ghote
H. R. F. Keating
Sam Spade
Dashiell Hammett
Gravedigger Jones, Coffin Ed Johnson
Chester Himes
V. I. Warshawski
Sara Paretsky