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| Bruce Alexander |
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Sir John Fielding: blind magistrate and founder of the first police
force in 1700s London, England |
| Tasha Alexander |
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Lady Emily Ashton: young and recently widowed, in Victorian London, England |
| Margery Allingham |
| • |
Albert Campion:
suave sleuth with noble blood, in London, England |
| Margot Arnold |
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Sir Toby Glendower:
60-something archaeologist, and Penny Spring, a 60-something anthropologist,
in Cambridge, England |
| Tessa Barclay |
| • |
Gregory Crowne: former Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein, a classical
music event organizer, in Europe |
| Ted Bell |
| • |
Alex Hawke: British Lord, jet-setter, and free-lance secret operative out to save the free world |
| Simon Brett |
| • |
Blotto, the
Honourable Devereux Lyminster, and his sister Twinks, in 1920s England |
| Carl Brookins |
| • |
Mary Whitney: heiress
to an industrial empire, and her husband Michael Tanner, a successful
public relations executive, in Seattle, Washington |
| Fiona Buckley |
| • |
Ursula Blanchard: Lady-in-Waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, in London,
England |
| James Hadley Chase |
| • |
Mark Girland:
high-living (when he can) ex-CIA operative |
| Alys Clare |
| • |
Sir Josse d’Acquin: French knight,
and Abbess Helewise at the Hawkenly Abbey in England during the
12th century |
| Sara Conway |
| • |
Lord Godwin: bailiff
in Hexham, in 13th century England |
| David Dickinson |
| • |
Lord Francis Powerscourt: ex-Indian army intelligence officer
and Irish peer, working as an investigator in the late Victorian
period, in England and elsewhere |
| Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr) |
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Sir Henry
Merrivale: holder of one of the oldest baronetcies in England,
physician, barrister, and head of military intelligence for the
war office in England |
| Diana Gabaldon |
| • |
Lord John Grey:
soldier and gentleman, in mid-18th century London, England, and elsewhere |
| Elizabeth George |
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Thomas Lynley:
Scotland Yard inspector and eighth Earl of Asherton, Sergeant
Barbara Havers, forensic pathologist Simon Allcourt-St. James, his
wife Deborah, and lab assistant Lady Helen Clyde, in London, England |
| Carolyn Haines |
| • |
Sarah Booth Delaney:
unconventional Southern Belle in Zinnia,
Mississippi, in the Southern Belle mysteries |
| Laurell K. Hamilton |
| • |
Meredith
Gentry: mortal Faerie princess hiding in Los Angeles,
California |
| Michael Jecks |
| • |
Sir Baldwin Furnshill: ex-Templar Knight, and Simon Puttock,
medieval West County bailiff, in Devon, England |
| Bernard Knight |
| • |
Sir John de Wolfe:
the crowner (coroner), in 12th century Devon,
England, in the Crowner John series |
| Jane Jakeman |
| • |
Lord Ambrose Malfinet: English aristocrat back from fighting the Greek War of Independence |
| Michael Jecks |
| • |
Sir Baldwin Furnshill:
ex-Templar Knight, and Simon Puttock, medieval West County bailiff,
in Devon, England |
| Philip MacDonald |
| • |
Anthony Ruthven Gethryn:
sleuth and sometime intelligence officer,
son of an English squire and a Spanish actress |
| Ngaio Marsh |
| • |
Roderick Alleyn:
second son of a baronet and police inspector in
London, England |
| Nancy Martin |
| • |
Nora, Emma, and Libby
Blackbird: three sisters who
inherit a two million dollar tax debt from their high-society parents
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the Blackbird Sister mysteries |
| Alexander McCall Smith |
| • |
Isabel
Dalhousie: Scottish-American editor of the esteemed Review
of Applied Ethics and a woman of independent means in Edinburgh,
Scotland, in the Sunday Philosophy Club mysteries |
| Catriona McPherson |
| • |
Dandy Gilver:
well-to-do woman in 1920s Scotland |
| Fidelis Morgan |
| • |
Lady
Ashby de la Zouche, Countess of Clapham, a 60-something former
mistress of the deceased Charles II, fallen on hard times, and
her former maid Alpiew, around 1700 in London, England |
| Catherine O’Connell |
| • |
Pauline Cook,
a widowed socialite and world traveller, in Chicago,
Illinois, in the High Society series |
| Sharon Kay Penman |
| • |
Justin de Quincy:
bastard son of a bishop in 12th century England |
| Andrea Penrose |
| • |
Lady Arianna Hadley:
posing as a French chef in an aristocratic household in 1813 London,
England |
| Deanna Raybourn |
| • |
Lady Julia Grey:
recently widowed, in 1880s London, England |
| Dilwyn Rees (Glyn Daniel) |
| • |
Sir Richard Cherrington: archaeologist and Vice President of
Fisher College, in Cambridge, England |
| David Roberts |
| • |
Lord Edward Corinth:
jaded English aristocrat, and Verity Browne,
a leftist journalist, between the wars in 1930s London, England |
| John Maddox Roberts |
| • |
Decius Cecilius
Metellus: would-be playboy son
of an illustrious family, in the SPQR historical mysteries |
| Lynda S. Robinson |
| • |
Lord Meren: chief investigator for Pharaoh Tutankhamun in ancient
Egypt |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
| • |
Wimsey, Lord
Peter: pianist, book collector, and criminologist in London,
England |
| Shari Shattuck |
| • |
Callaway (Cally) Wilde: wealthy socialite, and LAPD detective Evan Paley, in Los Angeles, California |
| Cynthia Smith |
| • |
Emma Rhodes: private problem-resolver for the rich, in London,
England |
| Troy Soos |
| • |
Rebecca Davies: child
of privilege running a home for desperate women, and Marshall Webb,
Rebecca’s beau, a freelance reporter for
Harper’s Weekly who secretly pens dime novels |
| Kevin Spivak and Julie Chrystyn |
| • |
Ken Karasik: billionaire
born in Communist Bosnia, devoted to securing freedom for the Slavs
in the Balkans |
| David Stukas |
| • |
Michael Stark: oversexed
heir-apparent to a herpes ointment fortune, Robert Wilsop, a recovered
Catholic and copywriter for feminine hygiene products, and Monette
O’Reilley, a towering lesbian
and star player of the Leaping Lesbians soccer team and graphic artist
in New York |
| Winona Sullivan |
| • |
Cecile Buddenbrooks:
licensed private investigator and heiress-nun,
in Boston, Massachusetts |
| L.L. Thrasher |
| • |
Lizbet Lange: heiress and ex-waitress, who can see murdered undercover
police officer Charlie Bilbo, in California |
| J.F. Trainor |
| • |
Angela Biwaban: ex-embezzler
Anishabe princess, in Minnesota |
| Gérard de Villiers |
| • |
Malko Linge: SAS — Son Altesse Sérénissime (His Serene Highness) — an Austrian prince and international agent for the CIA |
| Dennis Wheatley |
| • |
Duke de Richleau:
exiled French monarchist, along with “Modern
Musketeers” Richard Eaton, a conservative Christian Englishman,
Simon Aron, a liberal Jew, and American Rex Van Ryn, from 1894-1960 |
| Patricia Wynn |
| • |
Gideon St. Mars:
viscount who becomes the highwayman Blue Satan, and his friend
Mrs. Kean, in early 18th century England |
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