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| Vivien Armstrong |
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Roger Hayes: detective chief inspector and former classical pianist, in the village of Newton Greys, Oxfordshire, England |
| Ace Atkins |
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Nick Travers: ex-football
star, part-time detective, and full-time expert on blues in New Orleans,
Louisiana |
| Tessa Barclay |
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Gregory Crowne: former Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein, a classical
music event organizer, in Europe |
| Nancy Bartholomew |
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Maggie Reid: beautician turned country-western singer, in North
Carolina |
| Jack Batten |
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Crang: lawyer and jazz
buff in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| K. K. Beck |
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Jane da Silva: lounge
singer and private detective, in Seattle, Washington |
| Rick Blechta |
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Marta Hendriks: renowned opera singer on the international stage |
| Meg Cabot |
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Heather Wells: 28 year-old former teen pop star turned private
investigator, in New York City |
| Massimo Carlotto |
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Marco “Alligator” Buratti:
former blues singer and ex-con, working as a private investigator
in Venice, Italy |
| Sally Carpenter |
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Sandy Fairfax: a ’70s teen idol, now 38 years old and making a comeback, in 1990s southern California |
| Charlotte Carter |
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Nanette Hayes:
jazz-playing saxophonist, in New York City |
| Mark Coggins |
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August Riordan: jazz
bass-player and private investigator, and his cross-dressing friend
and assistant, Chris Duckworth, in San Francisco, California |
| Judith Cutler |
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Sophie Rivers: college
lecturer and amateur singer in Birmingham, England |
| Carroll John Daly |
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Vee Brown:
private investigator who writes songs as Vivian Brown (his real name),
in New York City |
| Carole Nelson Douglas |
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Irene Adler:
opera star and sleuth in 19th century France |
| Åke Edwardson |
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Erik Winter: jazz-loving Chief Inspector of police, in Gothenburg,
Sweden |
| Gerald Elias |
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Daniel Jacobus: blind,
reclusive, and crotchety violin teacher living in self-imposed exile
in rural New England |
| Ron Ellis |
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Johnny Ace: DJ with
a controversial phone-in radio show who runs “Ace
Investigations” in his spare time in Liverpool, England |
| Bill Fitzhugh |
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Rick Shannon: FM rock disc jockey and private investigator in the Mississippi Delta |
| Kinky Friedman |
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Kinky Friedman:
country-western singer turned sleuth, in New York
City |
| Sara Hoskinson Frommer |
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Joan Spencer:
orchestra manager in Oliver, Indiana |
| Hal Glatzer |
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Katy Green: violin
player in the Ultra Belles, an all-girl swing band in 1940s California |
| Deborah Grabien |
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John “JP” Kinkaid:
member of Blacklight, a legendary British rock group |
| Andrew M. Greeley |
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Nuala Anne
McGrail: young Irish immigrant psychic and
singer in Chicago, Illinoi |
| Kate Grilley |
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Kelly Ryan: general
manager of WBZE, on the Caribbean Island of St. Chris |
| Lorie Ham |
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Alexandra Walters: gospel
singer in the fictional town of Donlyn in the San Joaquin Valley
of California |
| Barbara Hambly |
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Ben January:
surgeon and music teacher, in 1830s New Orleans, Louisiana |
| John Harvey |
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Charlie Resnick: jazz-loving
police detective in Nottingham, England |
| Richard Helms |
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Pat Gallegher: failed
seminarian, retired forensic psychologist, and jazz musician, in
New Orleans, Louisiana |
| David Hiltbrand |
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Jim McNamara: former record company insider turned insurance
investigator specializing in hardcase rockers, on the road in the
USA |
| Morag Joss |
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Sara Selkirk: renowned
cellist, in Bath, England |
| Lucille Kallen |
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C.B. Greenfield:
newspaper editor and musician, and Maggie Rome,
a reporter and musician, in Sloan's Ford, Connecticu |
| Daniel M. Klein |
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Elvis Presley: back
from his tour of duty in Germany, and singing and sleuthing in Tennessee |
| John Leslie |
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Gideon Lowry: 50-something,
piano-playing private detective, in Key West, Florida |
| Wendell McCall (Ridley Pearson) |
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Chris Klick:
6'4" dropout-songwriter turned PI in Idaho |
| Bill Moody |
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Evan Horne: jazz piano
player with an injured hand |
| Beverle Graves Myers |
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Tito Amato: sold as a child to be a castrato opera singer, in 18th
century Italy, in the Baroque Mystery series |
| Audrey Peterson |
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Jane Winfield:
British journalist and music writer, in London, England |
| Mary Saums |
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Willie Taft: former
back-up singer and private investigator, in the South |
| Dorothy L. Sayers |
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Lord Peter
Wimsey: pianist, book collector, and criminologist,
in London, England |
| Dylan Schaffer |
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Gordon Seegerman:
reluctant public defender by day and lead singer
in a Barry Manilow cover band by night, in northern California |
| Mark Schweizer |
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Hayden Konig:
police chief, and choir director and organist at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, in the Appalachian town of St. Germaine, North Carolina |
| William Shaw |
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Cathal Breen: detective sergeant, and WPC Helen Tozer, of the Metropolitan Police, in the late ’60s music scene, in London, England |
| Josef Škvorecký |
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Danny Smiricki:
jazz saxophone player, teacher, and observer of post-WW2 life in
Czechoslovakia and Canada |
| Sarah Smith |
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Perdita Halley, a concert
pianist, and Alexander von Reisden, a young Austrian biochemist,
first in pre-WWI Boston, Massachusetts, and then Paris, France |
| Roz Southey |
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Charles Patterson:
determined but impoverished musician in 18th century Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
England |
| Keith Snyder |
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Jason Keltner: composer
and ex-spy, in Los Angeles, California |
| Virginia Swift |
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“Mustang” Sally
Adler: hard-drinking singer who comes home after 17 years
as a scholar of women’s studies at the University of Wyoming |
| David J. Walker |
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Malachy P. Foley:
jazz piano-playing private investigator in Chicago,
Illinois |
| Janice Weber |
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Leslie Frost: secret
agent and concert violinist, in Washington, DC |
| Robert Westbrook |
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Nicky
Rachmaninoff: reluctant cop, divorced father,
and jazz pianist, in Beverly Hills, California, in the Left-Handed Policeman mysteries |
| John Morgan Wilson & Peter Duchin |
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Phil Damon: bandleader playing jazz in 1963 San Francisco, California |
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