|
Alex Abella |
• |
Charlie Morell: Cuban-American
private investigator turned lawyer in Los Angeles, California |
J.L. Abramo |
• |
Jake Diamond: private
investigator who is more over-easy than hard-boiled, in San Francisco,
California |
Richard K. Abshire |
• |
Jack Kyle: private
investigator in Dallas, Texas |
Mario Acevedo |
• |
Felix Gomez: private
investigator who became a vampire as a soldier in Iraq, in various
places in the United States |
Cleve F. Adams |
• |
Rex McBride: private
eye in Los Angeles, California |
Douglas Adams |
• |
Dirk Gently (alias
of Svlad Cjelli), a holistic detective who investigates based on
the fundamental interconnectedness of all things, in London, England,
in this comic, sci-fi mystery series |
Jane Adams |
• |
Ray Flowers: former
police sergeant, now a private investigator, in England |
Carolina Garcia Aguilera |
• |
Lupe Solano:
private investigator in Miami, Florida |
Neil Albert |
• |
Dave Garrett: disbarred
lawyer turned private investigator in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania |
Michael Allegretto |
• |
Jacob Lomax:
ex-cop turned private investigator in Denver, Colorado |
Roberto Ampuero |
• |
Cayetano Brulé: Cuban-born private investigator based in Valparaiso, Chile |
Rudolfo Anaya |
• |
Sonny Baca: part-time
rodeo rider private investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
Kevin J. Anderson |
• |
Dan Shamble: zombie private investigator at Shamble & Die (Chambeaux & Deyer) Investigations, in the Big Uneasy |
William Ard |
• |
Timothy Dane: private
investigator in New York City |
• |
Lou Largo: private investigator in New York City |
Anne Argula |
• |
Quinn: ex-cop turned private investigator, in Spokane and Seattle,
Washington |
Jakob Arjouni |
• |
Kemal Kayankaya: private
investigator of Turkish background, in Frankfurt, Germany |
Lori G. Armstrong |
• |
Julie Collins: secretary in a sheriff’s office and part-time
private investigator, in western South Dakota |
Ace Atkins |
• |
Nick Travers: ex-football
star, part-time detective and full-time expert on blues in New Orleans |
Leo Atkins (Clay Harvey pseudonym) |
• |
Connor Gibbs:
private investigator running Quixote Enterprises, in Wendover, North
Carolina |
Kate Atkinson |
• |
Jackson Brodie: ex-cop,
ex-husband, and private investigator, in the UK |
Michael Avallone |
• |
Ed Noon: private investigator in New York City, later on special
assignment to the President of the United States |
Lori Avocato |
• |
Pauline Sokol:
ex-nurse, now an investigator of medical fraud |
E.C. Ayres |
• |
Tony Lowell: photographer and private investigator on the Gulf
Coast of Florida |
William Babula |
• |
Jeremiah St. John:
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
Robert E. Bailey |
• |
Art Hardin: retired
colonel, now a low-keyed private investigator in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
John Baker |
• |
Sam Turner: private
investigator in York, England |
Bill S. Ballinger |
• |
Barr Breed: private
investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
Franklin Bandy |
• |
Kevin MacInnes:
the “Lie King”, a free-lance lie detector and private
investigator, in Ohio and elsewhere |
Oliver Banks |
• |
Amos Hatcher: the
art world’s foremost detective |
Ray Banks |
• |
Callum “Cal” Innes:
an ex-con working as an unlicensed
private investigator, in Manchester, England |
Vincent Banville |
• |
John Blaine:
private investigator in Dublin, Ireland |
Richard Barre |
• |
Wil Hardesty: Vietnam
Vet private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Nancy Bartholomew |
• |
Stella Valocchi: ex-Florida cop, now a private investigator in
Chester County, Pennsylvania |
Milton Bass |
• |
Vinnie Altobelli: ex-cop
coronary survivor and private investigator, in San Bernadino, California |
• |
Benny Freedman: private
investigator, in San Diego, California |
Colin Bateman |
• |
The Small Bookseller with No Name who becomes an investigator when the detective agency next door goes out of business, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in the Mystery Man series |
K.K. Beck |
• |
Jane da Silva: lounge
singer and private detective in Seattle, Washington |
Jean Bedford |
• |
Anna Southwood: private
enquiry agent in Sidney, Australia |
Richard Belzer with Michael Black |
• |
Richard Belzer:
private investigator based in New York City |
Larry Beinhart |
• |
Tony Casella: family-man
and private investigator in New York City |
Carol Lea Benjamin |
• |
Rachel Alexander:
private investigator and dog trainer, and Dashiell, her pit bull,
in New York City |
Raymond Benson |
• |
\Spike
Berenger: private investigator with Rockin’ Security,
providing security for rock and roll stars |
David Berlinski |
• |
Aaron Asherfield:
cynical investigator with three ex-wives, in San Francisco, California |
Anthony Bidulka |
• |
Russell Quant: ex-farmboy, half-Ukrainian, half-Irish, gay private
detective, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada |
Ruth Birmingham (Walter Sorrells) |
• |
Sunny Childs:
private investigator with Peachtree Investigations, in Atlanta, Georgia |
Cara Black |
• |
Aimee Leduc: owner
of a detective agency specializing in corporate security, in Paris,
France |
Michael A. Black |
• |
Ron Shade: tough-guy
private investigator with a soft heart, and a martial arts expert,
in Chicago, Illinois |
Victoria Blake |
• |
Samantha (Sam) Falconer:
world judo champion turned private investigator at the Gentle Way
investigation agency in London, working in Oxford, England |
Nero Blanc |
• |
Rosco Polycrates: private
investigator, and Annabella Graham, crossword puzzle editor for the
Newcastle Evening Crier, in Newcastle, Massachusetts |
Alex Bledsoe |
• |
Eddie LaCrosse: sword-for-hire
(anything but murder) private investigator in a fantasy medieval
world |
Lawrence Block |
• |
Matt Scudder:
reformed alcoholic and unlicensed private eye, in New York City |
Jack Bludis |
• |
Brian Kane: private
investigator in 1950s Hollywood, California |
Todd Borg |
• |
Owen McKenna: ex-San Francisco homicide inspector turned private
investigator, and his Harlequin Great Dane, Spot, at Lake Tahoe,
California, and Nevada |
D.B. Borton |
• |
Cat Caliban: 60-something
private investigator-in-training in Cincinnati, Ohio |
Mark Bouton |
• |
Max Austin: ex-FBI agent, now private investigator also interested
in astronomy and things cosmic, in Kansas |
Rhys Bowen |
• |
Molly Murphy: Irish immigrant in early 20th-century who wants
to be a private investigator, in New York City |
Elisabeth Bowers |
• |
Meg Lacey: private
investigator in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Susan M. Boyer |
• |
Liz Talbot: private investigator with a ghostly sidekick, in fictional Stella Maris, South Carolina |
Alistair Boyle |
• |
Gil Yates: private
investigator, alias Malvin Stark, a nerdy, unsuccessful real estate
agent, in Los Angeles, California |
P.J. Brackston |
• |
Gretel (yes, that Gretel), now a 35-year-old private investigator, and her brother Hans, in 1770s Bavaria, Germany, in the Brothers Grimm mysteries |
Gyles Brandreth |
• |
Oscar Wilde: poet, wit, and playwright, friend of Arthur Conan
Doyle, and Robert Sherard, great-grandson of Wordsworth, investigate
murders in Victorian England, Scotland, and France |
Steve Brewer |
• |
Bubba Mabry: private
investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
David Brierley |
• |
Cody: young female ex-spy
and private investigator, in Europe and North Africa |
D.C. Brod |
• |
Quint McCauley: ex-cop
turned private investigator in a Chicago suburb in Illinois |
Frances Brody |
• |
Kate Shackleton: private detective whose husband is MIA in WWI, in 1920s Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
Kirsty Brooks |
• |
Cassidy Blair: 29-year-old
amateur sleuth, later private investigator, in Australia |
Carl Brookins |
• |
Sean “NMI” Sean:
private investigator in Hennepin County, Minnesota |
Christopher Brookmyre |
• |
Jasmine Sharp, a former actress, now a private investigator, and Catherine McLeod, a detective superintendent, in Glasgow, Scotland |
Carter Brown |
• |
Danny Boyd:
private investigator |
• |
Rick Holman:
private investigator in Hollywood, California |
• |
Mavis Seidlitz: blonde private investigator with Gracie Allen
tendencies |
Howard Browne |
• |
Paul Pine:
former DA’s investigator, now a private investigator,
in Chicago, Illinois |
Sinclair Browning |
• |
Trade Ellis:
rancher and part-time private eye, in Arizona |
Kate Bryan |
• |
Maggie Maguire: ex-Pinkerton
agent in 1870s San Francisco, California |
Miles Burton (John Rhode) |
• |
Desmond Merrion: military intelligence officer who becomes a
private detective, and Henry Arnold, a Scotland Yard inspector, in
England |
Christopher Bush |
• |
Ludovic Travers:
wealthy writer and amateur sleuth, later proprietor of the Broad
Street Detective Agency, along with Scotland Yard Superintendant
George Wharton and later Chief Inspector Jewle, in London, England |
Nancy Bush |
• |
Jane Kelly: reluctant private investigator, and her pug, The
Binkster, in Lake Chinook, Orego |
Max Byrd |
• |
Mike Haller: private
eye specializing in missing persons in San Francisco, California |
Meg Cabot |
• |
Heather Wells: 28 year-old former teen pop star turned private
investigator, in New York City |
Hamilton T. Caine (Stephen Smoke) |
• |
Ace Carpenter:
private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Kate Calloway |
• |
Cassidy James: lesbian
private investigator in the fictional town of Cedar Hills (near the
Southern Oregon Coast about 350 miles from Portland) |
Lindy Cameron |
• |
Kit O’Malley:
former police officer, now a private investigator in Melbourne, Australia |
Chester D. Campbell |
• |
Sid Chance: private
investigator, in Nashville, Tennessee |
Robert Campbell |
• |
Whistler:
sentimental private investigator in Hollywood, California |
Dorothy Cannell |
• |
Hyacinth and Primrose
Tramwell: pair of dotty
sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency occasionally
joining Ellie Haskell, an interior decorator, and Ben Haskell,
a writer and chef |
Victor Canning |
• |
Rex Carver: English
spy turned private investigator, in Europe |
Massimo Carlotto |
• |
Marco “Alligator” Buratti: former blues singer and
ex-con, working as a private investigator in Venice, Italy |
J.D. Carpenter |
• |
Campbell Young: racetrack-loving
homicide detective, later a private investigator, and his friend
Priam Harvey, a racetrack journalist, mostly in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
Tori Carrington |
• |
Sofie Metropolis: Greek-American private investigator, in Queens,
New York City |
C.J. Carver |
• |
Jay McCaulay:
former captain in the Paras, now working with TRACE, tracking down
missing children in war zones |
Thomas B. Cavanagh |
• |
Mike Garrity:
40-something retired police detective, now a private
investigator, with a brain tumor named Bob, in Orlando, Florida |
Peter Chambers |
• |
Mark Preston: private investigator in Monkton City, California |
Leonard Chang |
• |
Allen Choice: Korean-American Silicon Valley investigator, in
Los Angeles, California |
Sally Chapman |
• |
Juliet Blake: computer fraud investigator in Silicon Valley,
California |
James Hadley Chase |
• |
Dave Fenner:
reporter turned private eye |
• |
Vic Malloy:
private investigator in California |
Thomas Chastain |
• |
J.T. Spanner: private
investigator, NYPD inspector, and Max Kauffman, an NYPD inspector,
in New York City |
Sean Chercover |
• |
Ray Dudgeon:
former newspaper reporter turned private investigator,
in Chicago, Illinois |
Agatha Christie |
• |
Hercule Poirot:
Belgian private detective in London, England |
Jim Christy |
• |
Gene Castle: private
investigator in late 1930s to 1945 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Carole Higgins Clark |
• |
Regan Reilly: private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
John Clarkson |
• |
Jack Devlin: ex-Secret Service Agent turned security firm investigator,
in the USA |
Liza Cody |
• |
Anna Lee: private investigator
in London, England |
Tucker Coe (Donald E. Westlake) |
• |
Mitch Tobin:
ex-cop private investigator in Queens, New York |
Mark Coggins |
• |
August Riordan: jazz
bass-player and private investigator, and his cross-dressing friend
and assistant, Chris Duckworth, in San Francisco, California |
Mark Cohen |
• |
Pepper Keane: former
federal prosecutor, now a private investigator in Colorado |
Curt Colbert |
• |
Jake Rossiter: private
investigator, and Miss Jenkins, a “Gal Friday” in post-World
War II Seattle, Washington |
Cathy Cole |
• |
Nicola Sharpe: tall,
tough 29-year-old private investigator, in the Balmain area of Sydney,
Australia |
David Cole |
• |
Laura Winslow: the false
identity of a part-Hopi cyber-investigator, on the Arizona border |
Reed Farrel Coleman |
• |
Dylan Klein:
insurance investigator in New York City |
• |
Moe (Moses) Prager: ex-cop private investigator in 1980s New
York City |
Max Allan Collins |
• |
Nate Heller:
1930s ex-cop turned private eye, in Chicago, Illinois |
Michael Collins |
• |
Dan Fortune: one-armed
Polish-Lithuanian private investigator in New York City |
John Connolly |
• |
Charlie “Bird” Parker:
ex-NYPD detective turned private investigator in cases taking him
to locations in North America |
Kent Conwell |
• |
Tony Boudreaux: private
investigator based in Austin, Texas |
Glen Cook |
• |
Garrett: 30-something
human private investigator in fantasy TunFaire |
Thomas H. Cook |
• |
Frank Clemons:
homicide detective in Atlanta, Georgia, later a private eye in New
York City |
Lesley Cookman |
• |
Libby Sarjeant: middle-aged actress and private investigator,
in Kent, England |
Basil Copper |
• |
Mike Faraday: hard-boiled
private eye, in Los Angeles, California |
Gary Corby |
• |
Nicolaos: investigator
in classical Athens, beginning in 461 BCE |
Michael Cormany |
• |
Dan
Kruger: 30-something ex-cop and former rock musician, now a
private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
Lucha Corpi |
• |
Gloria Damasco: Hispanic
detective in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, in the Brown
Angel mysteries |
Peter Corris |
• |
Richard Browning:
private investigator with Hollywood ties, in Sydney, Australia |
• |
Cliff Hardy: private
investigator in Australia |
Elizabeth Cosin |
• |
Zen Moses: cancer
survivor and private investigator, in Santa Monica, California |
Matt Coyle |
• |
Rick Cahill: former Santa Barbara cop falsely accused of killing his wife, now a private investigator in the San Diego suburb, La Jolla, California |
Bill Crider |
• |
Truman Smith:
private investigator in Galveston, Texas |
Clive Cussler |
• |
Isaac Bell:
no-nonsense private investigator with the Van Dorn Detective Agency,
in early 20th century America |
Stan Cutler |
• |
Rayford Goodman: jaded, once-famous private investigator, and
Mark Bradley, a gay writer of celebrity biographies, in Los Angeles,
California |
Don Dahler |
• |
Huck Doyle: pro golfer
and non-practicing lawyer working as a private investigator, in Los
Angeles, California |
Carroll John Daly |
• |
Vee Brown:
private investigator who writes songs as Vivian Brown (his real name),
in New York City |
• |
Race Williams:
the original hard boiled private investigator, in New York City |
David Daniel |
• |
Alex Rasmussen: wise-cracking ex-cop private investigator in
Lowell, Massachusetts |
Kenn Davis |
• |
Carver Bascombe: black
poet and private investigator, in San Francisco, California |
Lindsey Davis |
• |
Marcus Didius Falco:
“informer” for Emperor Vespasian in 1st century Rome |
• |
Flavia Albia: adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, born in Britain, working as a private investigator during the reign of Emperor Domitian, in ancient Rome |
Thomas D. Davis |
• |
Dave Strickland:
private investigator in San Jose, California |
Janet Dawson |
• |
Jeri Howard: private
investigator in Oakland, California |
William DeAndrea |
• |
Matt Cobb: investigator for network television in New York City |
Phillip DePoy |
• |
Flap Tucker: finder
of lost things, and a private investigator who uses meditation instead
of a gun, in Atlanta, Georgia |
Daniel Depp |
• |
David Spandau: former
movie stuntman, now a private investigator who specializes in serving
Hollywood’s elite, in Los Angeles, California |
August Derleth |
• |
Solar Pons: an
acknowledged imitation of Sherlock Holmes |
|
Solar Pons mysteries by Basil
Copper |
P.T. Deutermann |
• |
Cam Richter: former
lieutenant in a sheriff’s office, now running
a private detective agency, in Manceford County, North Carolina |
Thomas B. Dewey |
• |
Mac: ex-cop private
investigator, in Chicago, Illinois, and later in Los Angeles, California |
• |
Pete Schofield:
private investigator, and his wife Jeannie, in Los Angeles, California |
Eileen Dewhurst |
• |
Phyllida Moon:
private eye on television, in London, 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 |
Peter Dickinson |
• |
James Pibble: Scotland
Yard Superintendent, later a private investigator, in London, England |
Laura DiSilverio |
• |
Charlotte “Charlie” Swift:
former Air Force investigator, now working as a private investigator,
in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Doris Miles Disney |
• |
Jeff DiMarco: insurance investigator in Boston, Massachusetts |
Stephen Dobyns |
• |
Charlie Bradshaw: ex-cop turned detective in Saratoga Springs,
New York |
Gaylord Dold |
• |
Mitch Roberts: private investigator in 1950s Wichita, Kansas |
Jerome Doolittle |
• |
Tom Bethany:
former political consultant and wrestler working as a private investigator,
in Boston, Massachusetts |
Anabel Donald |
• |
Alex Tanner: freelance TV researcher and part-time private investigator, in London, England, in the Notting Hill mysteries |
Felicia Donovan |
• |
The Spider Women — ex-cop Katie Mahoney, computer forensics
expert Alexandria Axelrod, office manager Margo Norton, and financial
whiz Jane Landers — of the Black Widow Agency, who right the
wrongs done to innocent women by dastardly men, in New Hampshire |
Lauren Wright Douglas |
• |
Caitlin Reece: lesbian private investigator, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada |
David Duffy |
• |
Turbo Vlost: an ex-KGB operative, now a private investigator in New York City |
Margaret Duffy |
• |
Joanna McKenzie:
former CID turned private investigator in Bath, England |
Stella Duffy |
• |
Saz Martin: lesbian
private investigator in London, England |
Sarah Dunant |
• |
Hannah Wolfe: private
investigator in London, England |
Alice Duncan |
• |
Mercy Allcutt: former
Boston Brahmin, working for a down-on-his luck private investigator,
in 1920s Hollywood, California |
Sharon Duncan |
• |
Scotia MacKinnon: former police officer turned private eye in Friday
Harbor, San Juan Island, Washington |
W. Glenn Duncan |
• |
Rafferty:
ex-cop turned private investigator, in and around Dallas,
Texas |
Wayne D. Dundee |
• |
Joe Hannibal: blue-collar
private investigator based in Rockford, Illinois |
Susan Dunlap |
• |
Kiernan
O’Shaughnessy: former San Francisco medical examiner
turned private investigator, in La Jolla, California |
Francis Durbridge |
• |
Paul Temple:
crime writer turned private investigator in London, England |
Robert Edric |
• |
Leo Rivers: private investigator in Hull, England, in the Song Cycle trilogy |
Grace F. Edwards |
• |
Mali Anderson: black female ex-NYPD cop, turned sleuth in Harlem,
New York |
Åke Edwardson |
• |
Jonathan Wide: divorced
ex-policeman turned private detective, in Gothenburg, Sweden |
Selma Eichler |
• |
Desiree Shapiro:
a 5' 2" queen-sized private investigator in New York City |
Richard Ellington |
• |
Steve Drake:
former actor turned private investigator, based in New York City |
Ron Ellis |
• |
Johnny Ace: DJ with a
controversial phone-in radio show who runs “Ace Investigations” in
his spare time in Liverpool, England |
P.S. Elsner |
• |
Nick Dallas: young but
retired cop, now a private investigator in 1950s Detroit, Michigan |
Earl Emerson |
• |
Thomas Black:
bicycling enthusiast private investigator in Seattle, Washington |
• |
Mac Fontana:
ex-firefighter and arson investigator in Staircase, Washington |
Howard Engel |
• |
Benny Cooperman:
private investigator in Grantham, Ontario, Canada |
Paul Engleman |
• |
Phil Moony: ex-fireman
private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
• |
Mark Renzler: ex-baseball
player private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
Loren D. Estleman |
• |
Amos Walker:
private investigator and Vietnam vet in Detroit Michigan |
Liz Evans |
• |
Grace Smith: private
investigator in Seatoun, England |
Crabbe Evers |
• |
Duffy House: ex-sportswriter
turned private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
David Everson |
• |
Robert
(Bobby) Miles: minor league baseball player turned private
investigator and troubleshooter for the Speaker of the Illinois
House of Representatives |
Terence Faherty |
• |
Scott Elliott:
1940s failed actor turned private investigator in Hollywood, California |
Gillian B. Farrell |
• |
Annie McGrogan:
actor and private investigator in New York City |
Gordon Ferris |
• |
Danny McRae: former spy turned private investigator who suffers from memory problems due to war injuries, in post-WWII London, England |
G.G. Fickling |
• |
Honey West: private eye combination of Marilyn Monroe and Mike Hammer, mostly in southern California |
Robert L. Fish |
• |
Schlock Homes: of
211B Bagel Street, a Sherlockian pastiche with a Yiddish perspective,
in London, England |
Bruno Fischer |
• |
Ben Helm: ex-cop turned private investigator in New York City |
Barbara Fister |
• |
Anni Koskinen: ex-cop
private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
Bill Fitzhugh |
• |
Rick Shannon: FM rock disc jockey and private investigator in the
Mississippi Delta |
Richard Fliegel |
• |
Shelly Lowenkopf:
Jewish police sergeant, later a private investigator, in the Bronx,
New York |
Clyde W. Ford |
• |
Charlie Noble: ex-Coast Guard officer turned marine private investigator |
G.M. Ford |
• |
Leo Waterman: wisecracking
private investigator in Seattle, Washington |
Dick Francis |
• |
Sid Halley: injured
steeplechase jockey turned private eye in England |
Valerie Frankel |
• |
Wanda Mallory: owner of the Do It Right Detective Agency, in Times Square, New York City |
Eugene Franklin (Franklin Bandy) |
• |
Berkeley Barnes:
lawyer, hypochondriac, and private investigator, and Larry Howe,
his “Archie,” in New York City |
Jack Fredrickson |
• |
Vlodek “Dek” Elstrom:
private investigator with a failed marriage and battered reputation,
in Chicago, Illinois |
Gwen Freeman |
• |
Fifi Cutter: bi-racial, 20-something, freelance insurance investigator,
in Los Angeles, California |
Christy Tillery French |
• |
Natasha Chamberlain: young investigator, and Jonce Striker, founder
of Investigative Services, Inc., in Knoxville, Tennessee |
James N. Frey |
• |
Joe Zanca:
ex-boxer private investigator working for The Agency, in San Francisco,
California |
David Fulmer |
• |
Valentin St. Cyr:
Creole private detective in the early 20th century, in the Storyville
district of New Orleans, Louisiana |
Ruthe Furie |
• |
Fran Kirk: ex-battered
wife turned private investigator working for an insurance company,
in Buffalo, New York |
Jim Fusilli |
• |
Terry Orr: newly-licensed
private investigator, and his daughter Bella, in Manhattan, New York |
Reg Gadney |
• |
Alan Rosslyn: private
investigator in England and elsewhere in Europe |
Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling) |
• |
Cormoran Strike: private detective, and his secretary/assistant Robin Ellacott, in London, England |
Kate Gallison |
• |
Nick Magaracz: private
investigator in Trenton, New Jersey |
Eric Garcia |
• |
Vince Rubio: velociraptor,
and private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera |
• |
Lupe Solano: private investigator in Miami, Florida |
William Campbell Gault |
• |
Brock
(The Rock) Callahan: former professional football player turned
upscale private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
• |
Joe Puma:
big, tough private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
Alison Gaylin |
• |
Brenna Spector: missing persons investigator in New York with Hyperthymestic Syndrome, the ability to remember her own past with all five senses |
Susan Geason |
• |
Syd Fish: former political
press secretary, now a private investigator, in Sydney, Australia |
Ed Goldberg |
• |
Lenny Schneider: hardboiled
Jewish private investigator, based in New York City |
Steven Gore |
• |
Graham Gage: cop turned
private investigator, caught up in international intrigue, based
in San Francisco, California |
Robert Gott |
• |
William Power: would-be
private detective leading a troupe of incompetent Shakespearean actors
during World War II, in Australia |
Ron Goulart |
• |
John Easy: private
investigator in Hollywood, California |
James Grady |
• |
John Rankin:
private investigator in Washington DC |
Sue Grafton |
• |
Kinsey Millhone: sassy
private eye in Santa Teresa, California |
Heather Graham |
• |
The Flynn Brothers:
private investigators inheriting a haunted mansion in New Orleans,
Louisiana |
Sara Gran |
• |
Claire DeWitt: the world’s
foremost private investigator, in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana |
Ann Granger |
• |
Fran Varady:
out-of-work actress turned private investigator, in London, England |
Linda Grant |
• |
Catherine Sayler:
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
Maxwell Grant |
• |
“The Shadow”:
private investigator in the USA |
Lesley Grant-Adamson |
• |
Laura Flynn:
private investigator in London, England |
Malcolm Gray (Ian Stuart) |
• |
Alan Craig: ex-Scotland Yard detective, now a private enquiry
agent, in England |
Stephen Greenleaf |
• |
John Marshall Tanner:
non-practicing attorney and private investigator in San Francisco,
California |
Nicola Griffith |
• |
Aud Torvingen:
half-American, half-Norwegian lesbian ex-Atlanta cop and self-defense
teacher |
Isidore Haiblum |
• |
James Shaw:
Jewish private investigator in New York City |
• |
Morris Weiss:
Yiddish detective at Weiss and Weiss, in 1950s New York City |
James W. Hall |
• |
Thorn: eco-avenger
private investigator in Key Largo, Florida |
Linda Hall |
• |
Teri Blake-Addison:
private investigator in Maine |
• |
Jake Rikker:
private investigator, kayak adventurer, and whale-watching tour guide
specializing in salvage operations, in the mostly Christian town
of Fog Point, Maine |
Parnell Hall |
• |
Stanley Hastings:
actor and private investigator in New York City |
Russ Hall |
• |
Travis: the Blue-Eyed Indian,
a private investigator, in and around Austin, Texas |
Tarquin Hall |
• |
Vish Puri, the portly
Punjabi founder of Most Private Investigators Ltd., a detective agency
in Delhi, India |
Brett Halliday (and others) |
• |
Michael Shayne: red-haired, hard-boiled private detective in
Miami, Florida |
Timothy Hallinan |
• |
Simeon Grist:
four-degreed private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Steve Hamilton |
• |
Alex McKnight: former
Detroit cop, now a private investigator running a hunting camp built
by his late father, in Paradise Michigan on the shore of Lake Superior |
Joseph Hansen |
• |
Dave Brandstetter: gay death-claims investigator in Los Angeles,
California |
Phil Hardwick |
• |
Jack Boulder: private
investigator in Mississippi |
Mike Harrison |
• |
Eddie Dancer: ex-cop private investigator in Calgary, Alberta,
Canada |
Will Harriss |
• |
Cliff Dunbar:
former English professor turned private investigator,
in Los Angeles, California |
Carolyn G. Hart |
• |
Max Darling: investigator,
and Annie Laurance, a mystery book store owner, in Broward’s
Rock, South Carolina, in the Death on Demand series |
Michael Harvey |
• |
Michael Kelly:
ex-cop private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
Richard Hawke (Tim Cockey) |
• |
Fritz Malone: private investigator, and bastard son of a former
police commissioner, in New York City |
Gar Anthony Haywood |
• |
Aaron Gunner:
black private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Jeremiah Healy |
• |
John Francis Cuddy:
Army police lieutenant turned private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts |
Daniel Hearn |
• |
Joe Noonan:
ex-cop, Vietnam vet, private investigator, in New
York City |
Martin Hegwood |
• |
Jack Delmas: private
investigator from the Mississippi Gulf Coast |
Veronica Heley |
• |
Bea Abbot: recently widowed and trying to retire from the Abbot
Agency, which specialized in cases where clients wanted to avoid
police involvement, in London, England |
Libby Fischer Hellmann |
• |
Georgia
Davis: ex-cop private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
Richard Helms |
• |
Eamon Gold: private investigator in San Francisco, California |
Peter Helton |
• |
Chris Honeysett: artist
and private investigator, in and around Bath, England |
Patty Henderson |
• |
Brenda Strange: lesbian private investigator of the weird, in
Tampa, Florida |
Tom Henighan |
• |
Sam Montcalm: middle-aged,
lone wolf private investigator in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
Gabriella Herkert |
• |
Sara Townley: investigator for a law firm in Seattle, Washington,
in the Animal Instinct mysteries |
Greg Herren |
• |
Chanse MacLeod: gay
private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Mick Herron |
• |
Zoë Boehm: 40-something
private investigator in Oxford, England |
Lynn S. Hightower |
• |
Lena Paget: private
investigator in Lexington, Kentucky |
Richard Hilary |
• |
Ezell “Easy” Barnes:
former prize fighter and cop turned
private investigator, in Newark, New Jersey |
Kaye C. Hill |
• |
Lexy Lomax: an accidental
private detective, and Kinky, her Chihuahua attack dog, in Clopwolde-on-Sea,
on the Suffolk Coast of England |
Reginald Hill |
• |
Joe Sixsmith:
private detective in Luton, England |
David Hiltbrand |
• |
Jim McNamara: former record company insider turned insurance
investigator specializing in hardcase rockers, on the road in the
USA |
Doug Hornig |
• |
Loren Swift: laid-back
Vietnam veteran private investigator, in Charlottesville, Virginia |
David Housewright |
• |
Rushmore
McKenzie: former St. Paul cop who becomes a smart-talking,
unlicensed private investigator in St. Paul, Minnesota |
• |
Holland Taylor: ex-cop turned private investigator in St. Paul, Minnesota |
Melodie Johnson Howe |
• |
Claire Conrad:
tall, elegant private investigator, and her sassy
assistant, Maggie Hill, in Los Angeles, California, and New York
City |
Richard Hoyt |
• |
James Burlane:
ex-CIA operative turned private investigator in the USA |
Frederick D. Huebner |
• |
Matt Riordan:
burned-out lawyer turned investigator in Seattle, Washington |
Tanya Huff |
• |
Vicki Nelson: ex-cop turned private investigator, with a vampire
lover, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Roy Huggins |
• |
Stuart
Bailey: private investigator based in Los Angeles, California |
Declan Hughes |
• |
Ed Loy: Irish private
investigator who has been living in Los Angeles, returning home to
Dublin, Ireland |
Harry Hunsicker |
• |
Lee Henry Oswald: Gulf War vet, loner, and private investigator,
in Dallas, Texas |
Charlie Huston |
• |
Joe Pitt: rogue private investigator, and vampire, in Manhattan,
New York City |
Robert Irvine |
• |
Moroni Traveler:
non-Mormon ex-football player and private investigator in Salt Lake
City, Utah |
Nancy Baker Jacobs |
• |
Devon MacDonald:
private investigator in St. Paul, Minnesota |
John Jakes |
• |
Johnny Havoc: pint-sized
(5'1") unlicensed private investigator |
Darrell James |
• |
Del Shannon: a young, female missing-persons investigator, based in Tucson, Arizona |
P.D. James |
• |
Cordelia Gray: fledgling
private investigator in London, England |
Quintin Jardine |
• |
Oz Blackstone:
private investigator in London, England |
William Jaspersohn |
• |
Peter Boone: former
Red Sox pitcher turned private investigator, in rural Vermont |
H. Paul Jeffers |
• |
Harry MacNeil:
ex-cop private investigator who wants to be a jazz clarinetist,
in 1930s New York City |
Bett Reece Johnson |
• |
Cordelia Morgan: lesbian hit artist turned sleuth, in northern
New Mexico and southern Colorado |
Paul Johnston |
• |
Quintilian Dalrymple:
private investigator in 2020s Edinburgh, Scotland |
• |
Alex Mavros:
half-Greek, half-Scottish private investigator in Greece |
Darynda Jones |
• |
Charlotte “Charley” Davidson:
part-time private investigator helping the police with her ability
to contact the dead in her full-time role as the Grim Reaper, in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, in a paranormal romantic suspense series |
Daniel Judson |
• |
Declan (Mac) MacManus: struggling 30-something part-time private
investigator living above a bar, in Southampton, New York |
Stuart M. Kaminsky |
• |
Lew Fonesca:
down and out process server for in Sarasota, Florida |
• |
Toby Peters: 1940s Hollywood private investigator in Los Angeles,
California |
• |
James
Rockford: low-rent private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Rob Kantner |
• |
Ben Perkins: ex-union
strike-buster turned private investigator, in Detroit, Michigan |
M.R.C. Kasasian |
• |
Sidney Grice: London’s most famous personal detective, and his goddaughter and ward, March Middleton, in 1880s London, England, in the Gower Street Detective series |
Jon Katz |
• |
Kit DeLeeuw: Wall Street
shark turned suburban detective, in Rochambeau, New Jersey |
Thomas Kaufman |
• |
Willis Gidney: former
con-artist, now a private investigator in Washington, DC |
Dan Kavanagh |
• |
Nick Duffy: bisexual
ex-cop turned private investigator in London, England |
Marne Davis Kellogg |
• |
Lilly Bennett: ex-detective private investigator in Roundup,
Wyoming |
Baynard Kendrick |
• |
Captain Duncan Maclain: blinded by gas in WWI, working as a detective,
assisted by his wife Rena, and Spud Savage, in New York City |
Jerry Kennealy |
• |
Nick Polo: private
investigator in San Francisco, California |
Christobel Kent |
• |
Sandro Cellini:
a disgraced ex-cop, now a private investigator, in Florence, Italy |
Philip Kerr |
• |
Bernie Gunther: German
private eye who hates the Nazis, in Berlin, Germany, 1936-47 |
Karen Kijewski |
• |
Kat Colorado:
bar-tending private investigator in Sacramento, California |
Laurie R. King |
• |
Mary Russell: student and then wife of Sherlock Holmes |
Michael Kirk (Bill Knox) |
• |
Andrew Laird: international marine insurance claim investigator |
Andrew Klavan |
• |
Scott Weiss: ex-cop
owner of Weiss Investigations, and Jim Bishop, an operative at Weiss
Investigations with a penchant for violence and a mysterious military
past, in San Francisco, California |
Zachary Klein |
• |
Matt Jacob: former social worker, now private investigator, with
a drug problem, in Boston, Massachussets |
Steve Knickmeyer |
• |
Steve Cranmer:
ex-cop who walks with a cane, now a private investigator, in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma |
Charles Knief |
• |
John Caine: Navy
SEAL turned private investigator in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii |
Phyllis Knight |
• |
Lil Richie: ex-rocker
lesbian private investigator in coastal Maine, Charlottesville, Virginia,
and elsewhere |
Ronald A. Knox |
• |
Miles Bredon: insurance investigator for the Indescribable Insurance
Company, in England |
Ed Kovacs |
• |
Cliff St. James: a former cop, martial arts expert, and private investigator, in post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana |
Mary Kruger |
• |
Matt Devlin: private
eye, and Brooke Cassidy, a mystery writer, in 1890s Newport, Rhode
Island |
Ken Kuhlken |
• |
Tom Hickey: private
investigator, in California and Nevada, and the next generation,
Clifford Hickey |
Mercedes Lackey |
• |
Diana Tregarde: investigator of unnatural events in Hartford,
Connecticu |
Barry Lancet |
• |
Jim Brodie: bilingual part-owner of Brodie Investigations, a detective agency founded by his father in Tokyo, and the operator of a Japanese art and antique gallery in San Francisco, California |
Andrew Lanh (Ed Ifkovic) |
• |
Rick Van Lam: an Amerasian (Vietnamese mother & American G.I. father) insurance investigator in Hartford, Connecticut |
John Lantigua |
• |
Willie Cuesta: private
investigator based in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida |
Betty Sullivan La Pierre |
• |
Tom Casey:
private investigator in Medford, Oregon, in the Hawkman mysteries |
Janet LaPierre |
• |
Patience and Verity
Mackellar: mother and daughter private investigators,
or Meg Halloran, a teacher, and her husband, police chief Vince Gutierrez,
and others, in the Port Silva (California) mysteries |
K.J. Larsen |
• |
Cat DeLuca: private investigator
operating the Pants On Fire Detective Agency specializing in cheating
spouses, in Chicago, Illinois |
Jonathan Latimer |
• |
Bill Crane: private
detective in Chicago, Illinois |
Hilda Lawrence |
• |
Mark East: private
investigator from New York City, and spinsters Beulah Pond and
Bessy Petty, in New England |
Martha C. Lawrence |
• |
Dr. Elizabeth Chase:
Stanford-trained parapsychologist turned private investigator in
San Diego, California |
Frank Lean |
• |
David Cunane: private
investigator, and son of a cop, in Manchester, England |
Wendi Lee |
• |
Angela Matelli: ex-Marine
turned private investigator in Boston, Massachusetts |
W.W. Lee (Wendi Lee) |
• |
Jefferson Birch:
former Texas ranger working for Tisdale Investigations, in the American
West in the second half of the 19th century |
John Lescroart |
• |
Wyatt Hunt:
private investigator, and Devin Juhle, a homicide detective, part
of the Hunt Club, in San Francisco, California |
John Leslie |
• |
Gideon Lowry: 50-something,
piano-playing private detective, in Key West, Florida |
David Levien |
• |
Frank Behr: ex-cop
private investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana |
Allan Levine |
• |
Sam Klein: street-wise
Jewish immigrant and private investigator, in 1911-1919 Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada |
Machael Z. Lewin |
• |
The Lunghi family:
three-generation private eye family in Bath, England |
• |
Albert Samson:
middle-aged, low-key private investigator in Indianapolis, Indiana |
Elliott Lewis |
• |
Fred Bennett: ex-cop,
unlicensed private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Robert Lewis |
• |
Robin Llewellyn: Welsh
private investigator with a fondness for drink, in Bristol, England,
and Swansea, Wales |
Diane Wei Liang |
• |
Mei Wang: modern, independent woman, and private investigator,
in Beijing, China |
Irene Lin-Chandler |
• |
Holly-Jean Ho: bisexual Anglo-Chinese computer fraud consultant
and private investigator, in London, England |
Thomas Lipinski |
• |
Carroll Dorsey:
private investigator in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
Laura Lippman |
• |
Tess Monaghan: private
investigator in Baltimore, Maryland |
Steve Liskow |
• |
Zach Barnes: private investigator in Hartford, Connecticut |
Michael Lister |
• |
Jimmy Riley, working
as a private detective in 1940s Panama City, Florida, after losing
an arm while on the police force |
Jack Livingston |
• |
Joe Binney: deaf
private investigator, in New York City |
Dick Lochte |
• |
Leo Bloodworth: grumpy
50-something private investigator, and Serendipity Dahlquist, a gum-snapping
15-year-old girl, in Los Angeles, California |
• |
Terry Manion:
private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Gabrielle Lord |
• |
Gemma Lincoln: private
investigator specializing in insurance traces, in Sydney, Australia |
Randye Lordan |
• |
Sydney Sloan: lesbian
private investigator in New York City, in the Stonewall Inn mysteries |
Lisa Lutz |
• |
Isabele “Izzy” Spellman:
28-year old sleuth working for her parents’ private investigation
firm, in San Francisco, California |
Jack Lynch |
• |
Peter Bragg:
former reporter turned private investigator and part-time
bartender, in Sausalito and San Francisco, California, and elsewhere |
Ed Lynskey |
• |
Frank Johnson: private investigator in Virginia and then West
Virginia |
Arthur Lyons |
• |
Jacob Asch: Jewish-Episcopal
ex-reporter private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
J.T. MacCargo (Peter Rabe) |
• |
Joe Mannix: private
investigator in Los Angeles, California, in “Mannix” TV
series novelizations |
John D. MacDonald |
• |
Travis McGee:
adventurer, philosopher, and private investigator, in Fort Lauderdale,
Florida |
Ross MacDonald |
• |
Lew Archer: ex-cop
and private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Jassy Mackenzie |
• |
Jade de Jong: private
investigator returning home 10 years after her police commissioner
father was killed, and police superintendent David Patel, in Johannesburg,
South Africa |
Charlotte MacLeod |
• |
Max Bittersohn:
art detective, and his socially connected wife, Sarah
Kelling, in Boston, Massachusetts |
Adrian Magson |
• |
Frank Palmer: ex-military
policeman and private investigator, and Riley Gavin, a freelance
journalist, in London, England |
Jaye Maiman |
• |
Robin Miller: lesbian
romance novel and travel writer turned private investigator, in New
York City |
Tim Maleeny |
• |
Cape Weathers: reporter turned private investigator, in San Francisco, California |
Larry Maness |
• |
Jake Eaton: private
investigator, and Watson, his super-dog, in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Jean Marcy |
• |
Meg Darcy: working-class
lesbian private investigator, and police detective Sarah Lindstrom,
in St. Louis, Missouri |
Phillip Margolin |
• |
Dana Cutler: private
detective in Washington DC, and Brad Miller, a law clerk in Oregon |
Paul D. Marks |
• |
Duke Rogers: private investigator in early 1990s Los Angeles, California |
David Markson |
• |
Harry Fannin: private
detective in 1960s New York City |
Dan J. Marlowe |
• |
Johnny Killain:
hotel detective at the Hotel Duarte and part-time private investigator,
in New York City |
Stephen Marlowe |
• |
Chester Drum: ex-FBI
agent private investigator, venturing around the world |
James E. Martin |
• |
Gil Disbro: young, conservative, non-drinking private investigator, in Cleveland, Ohio |
Andrew Masterson |
• |
Joe Panther:
drug dealer, killer, messiah, and private investigator, in Melbourne,
Australia |
Edward Mathis |
• |
Dan Roman: private
investigator in east Texas |
John R. Maxim |
• |
Paul Bannerman, and
a group of former contract agents (assassins, interrogators, electronics
specialists, etc.), retired in Westport, Connecticut |
Thomas Maxwell (Thomas Gifford) |
• |
Lew Cassidy:
former pro football player, now a private detective, in 1940s New
York City |
Keith McCafferty |
• |
Sean Stranahan: painter, fly fisherman, and private investigator, and Sheriff Martha Ettinger, in Montana |
Taylor McCafferty (Barbara Taylor McCafferty) |
• |
Haskell
Blevins: private investigator in Pigeon Fork, Kentucky |
Wendell McCall (Ridley Pearson) |
• |
Chris Klick:
dropout songwriter turned private investigator in Idaho |
Lise McClendon |
• |
Dorie Lennox: new
private investigator in Kansas City, Missouri |
Lorena McCourtney |
• |
Cate Kinkaid: fledgling private investigator in Eugene, Oregon |
Grant McCrea |
• |
Rick Redman: lawyer, drinker, rookie investigator, father, and
poker hound, in New York City |
V.L. McDermid (Val McDermid) |
• |
Kate Brannigan: private
investigator in Manchester, England |
Edmund McGirr (Kenneth Giles) |
• |
Jim Piron:
private investigator at the Detective Agency run by the Old Man,
in New York City |
Ralph M. McInerny |
• |
“The
Brothers Knight”: a New York PI, Philip Knight and his
brother, Roger Knight, a philosophy professor in South Bend, Indiana,
in the Notre Dame mysteries |
G.A. McKevett |
• |
Savannah Reid: ex-cop
private investigator in southern California |
Helen McCloy |
• |
Basil Willing: psychiatrist
and sleuth, in New York, and later Boston, Massachusetts |
Bridget McKenna |
• |
Caley Burke: 30-something
private investigator, in northern California |
Russel D. McLean |
• |
J. McNee: former
cop, now private investigator, in Dundee, Scotland |
Claire McNab |
• |
Kylie Kendall:
lesbian manager of a pub in tiny Wollegudgerie, Australia, who inherits
51% of her father's private detective agency in Los Angeles, California |
Vivian Meyer |
• |
Abby Faria: bike courier
and fledgling private investigator based in the Kensington Market
area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Penny Mickelbury |
• |
Phil Rodriquez:
Puerto Rican ex-cop private investigator, and his partner, computer
whiz Yolanda Aguillera, in New York City |
Sam Millar |
• |
Karl Kane: private investigator
in Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Wade Miller |
• |
Max Thursday: ex-cop
private investigator, and Austin Clapp, a police lieutenant, in San
Diego, California |
Larry Millett |
• |
Sherlock Holmes:
British detective, and Shadwell Rafferty, an Irish saloonkeeper,
in Minnesota |
George Milner |
• |
Ronald Anglesea:
private investigator in England and Scotland |
James Mitchell |
• |
Ron Hoggett: private
investigator with expertise at finding lost things, based in London,
England |
James C. Mitchell |
• |
Roscoe Brinker:
former INS agent, now a private investigator, in Tuscon, Arizona |
Manual Vazquez Montalban |
• |
Pepe Carvalho:
ex-CIA agent, former communist, and gourmet private investigator,
in Barcelona, Spain |
David Montrose |
• |
Russell Teed: hard-drinking
private investigator, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Christopher G. Moore |
• |
Vincent “Vinee” Calvino:
disbarred American lawyer turned private investigator, in Bangkok,
Thailand, and elsewhere in Southeast Asia |
L.A. Morse |
• |
Sam Hunter:
crude private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
Walter Mosley |
• |
Easy Rawlins: black
WWII veteran living in 1940s–1950s Los Angeles, California |
• |
Leonid McGill:
black ex-boxer, old-school private investigator, in New York City |
Marcia Muller |
• |
Sharon McCone:
legal investigator and private eye, in San Francisco, California |
Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini |
• |
Sabina Carpenter: a former Pinkerton operative, and her detective partner, ex-Secret Service agent John Quincannon, in late 1890s San Francisco, California |
Katy Munger |
• |
Casey Jones: unlicensed
private eye in North Carolina |
Haughton Murphy |
• |
Reuben Frost:
retired Wall Street super-lawyer and private investigator |
Shirley Rousseu Murphy |
• |
Joe Grey:
a cat and a private investigator |
Lynne Murray |
• |
Josephine Fuller:
queen-sized investigator in Seattle, Washington |
Reggie Nadelson |
• |
Artie Cohen: Moscow-born NYPD cop, later a private investigator,
based in New York City |
Kris Nelscott |
• |
Smokey Dalton: African-American
unlicensed private investigator, in Memphis, Tennessee |
Francis M. Nevins |
• |
Milo Turner:
con-man and private investigator in St. Louis, Missouri |
William F. Nolan |
• |
Bart Challis:
hard-boiled private investigator, and his half-brother Nick, in Los
Angeles, California |
• |
Sam Space: private
eye on Mars |
Geoffrey Norman |
• |
Morgan Hunt:
Vietnam vet, ex-con, private investigator working
for a crusading lawyer, in Pensacola, Florida |
Maxine O’Callaghan |
• |
Delilah West:
private investigator in Orange County, California |
Lillian O’Donnell |
• |
Gwenn Ramadge:
private investigator in New York City |
Maria-Antònia Oliver |
• |
Lònia Guiu: fiercely feminist private investigator based in Barcelona, Spain |
Steve Oliver |
• |
Scott Moody: an ex-mental
patient cab-driving private investigator in the late 1970s, in Spokane,
Washington |
Diana Orgain |
• |
Kate Connolly: office
manager, private investigator, and new mother, in San Francisco,
California, in the Maternal Instincts series |
George Ogan |
• |
Johnny
Bordelon: former New Orleans cop, now a private investigator,
in Louisiana |
Roger Ormerod |
• |
David Mallin: and
sometimes George Coe, private detectives in England |
Denise Osborne |
• |
Queenie Davilov: struggling screenwriter and investigator, in
Hollywood, California |
Orland Outland |
• |
Doan McCandler:
gay private investigator. and Binky Van de Kamp, his sidekick. in
San Francisco, California |
Abigail Padgett |
• |
Blue McCarron:
independent social psychologist and private investigator living outside
San Diego, California |
Sharon Pape |
• |
Rory (Aurora) McCain:
former police sketch artist, now a private investigator sharing a
house with the ghost of Federal Marshal Zeke (Ezekiel) Drummond in
Huntington, Long Island, New York, in the Portrait of Crime mysteries |
Sara Paretsky |
• |
V.I. Warshawski: attorney turned private eye in Chicago, Illinois |
Robert B. Parker |
• |
Sunny Randall:
private eye in Boston, Massachusetts |
• |
Spenser: ex-boxer,
ex-state cop turned private eye, in Boston, Massachusetts |
James Pattinson |
• |
Sam Grant: of the
Peking Inquiry Agency and later the Grant Inquiry Agency |
George P. Pelecanos |
• |
Nick Stefanos:
bartender and private eye, in Washington DC |
• |
Derek Strange:
black and successful, and Terry Quinn, white and barely
holding on, ex-cops turned private investigators, in Washington
DC |
Don Pendleton |
• |
Joe Copp: private
investigator in Hollywood, California |
• |
Aston Ford: former
naval intelligence officer, now psychic private investigator |
Thomas Perry |
• |
Jack Till: retired LAPD homicide detective, now working as a private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
W.R. Philbrick |
• |
T.D.
Stash: unlicensed private investigator, in Florida |
Judson Philips |
• |
Carole
Trevor: private investigator, and her ex-husband, Max Blythe |
Gary Phillips |
• |
Ivan Monk: African-American
private investigator in Los Angeles, California |
David M Pierce |
• |
Vic Daniel: 6-foot-7+ cut-rate private investigator, driving a Nash Metropolitan, in Los Angeles, California |
Elizabeth Pincus |
• |
Nell Fury: lesbian
private investigator in San Francisco, California |
Edgar Allan Poe |
• |
C. Auguste Dupin:
detective in the first “real” detective story |
Talmage Powell |
• |
Ed Rivers: private investigator in Tampa, Florida |
Jo-Ann Power |
• |
Mr. Jones: bodyguard and private investigator, and Carly Wagner,
a Texas congresswoman in Washington, DC |
Manjiri Prabhu |
• |
Sonia Someth: owner
of Stellar Investigations Detective Agency, and a master of Verdic
astrology, in Pune, India |
Richard Prather |
• |
Shell Scot: ex-Marine
private investigator, in Los Angeles, California |
Sandra West Prowell |
• |
Phoebe Siegel:
private investigator in Billings, Montana |
Malcolm Pryce |
• |
Louie Knight: private
investigator in Aberystwyth, Wales, in a comic Welsh noir series |
Elizabeth Quinn |
• |
Lauren Maxwell: Ph.D. naturalist and investigator for the Wild
America Society in Anchorage, Alaska |
Peter Quinn |
• |
Fintan Dunne: hard-boiled
detective in pre-World War II New York City |
Spencer Quinn (Peter Abrahams) |
• |
Chet, the
dog, the faithful companion of private investigator Bernie Little
in the Chet and Bernie series |
T.R. Ragan |
• |
Lizzy Gardner: private investigator who was once terrorized by a serial killer, in Sacramento, California |
Michael Raleigh |
• |
Paul Whelan: 40-something cop turned private investigator in
Chicago, Illinois |
Misa Ramirez |
• |
Lola Cruz: budding
private investigator at Camacho and Associates, in Sacramento, California |
Robert J. Randisi |
• |
Nick
Delvecchio: private investigator in Brooklyn, New York |
• |
Miles
Jacoby: boxer turned private investigator in New York City |
Julian Rathbone |
• |
Chris Shovelin:
down-at-the-heals 50-something British private investigator, in
California and Kenya |
Robert J. Ray |
• |
Matt Murdock: hard-boiled
private investigator based in Newport Beach, California |
Leigh Redhead |
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Simone Kirsch:
private investigator in Melbourne, Australia, who stripdances as “Vivien
Leigh” |
J.M. Redmann |
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Micky Knight: lesbian
private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Robert Reeves |
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Cellini Smith:
accountant for the Mob in New York City, turned honest private investigator
in Los Angeles, California |
Mike Resnick |
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Eli Paxton: former Chicago cop now barely making it as a private investigator in Cincinnati, Ohio |
Herbert Resnicow |
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Ed and Warren
Baer: father and son detective team in Long Island,
New York |
Shelly Reuben |
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Isaac “Ike” Blessing: private detective, and Fritillary “Tilly” Quilter,
an arson investigator, in New
York City |
William J. Reynolds |
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Nebraska: part-time
private investigator trying to write in Omaha, Nebraska |
Kat Richardson |
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Harper Blaine:
private investigator who can see ghosts, zombies,
and the like, after being dead for two minutes, in Seattle, Washington,
in the Greywalker series |
Linda L. Richards |
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Kitty Pangborn:
secretary to private eye Dexter J. Theroux, in 1930s Los Angeles,
California |
J.W. Rider (Shane Stevens) |
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Ryder Malone:
private investigator in Jersey City, New Jersey |
Rick Riordan |
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Jackson “Tres” Navarre:
Tai Chi master and unlicensed private investigator, in San Antonio,
Texas |
W.L. Ripley |
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Wyatt Storme: ex-NFL
star, Vietnam vet, and private investigator, in Branson, Missouri |
Ronald Clair Roat |
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Stuart Mallory:
private investigator in Lansing, Michigan |
Gillian Roberts |
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Emma Howe: 50-something
owner of a private detective agency, and Billie August, a young single
mother, in Tiburon (Marin County), California |
John Maddox Roberts |
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Gabe Treloar: burned-out LAPD veteran on the way to a PI job
in Cleveland, ending up in his old hometown, Monticello, Ohio |
Les Roberts |
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Milan Jacovich: blue-collar
Slovenian private eye with a master’s degree in Cleveland,
Ohio |
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Saxon: actor
and private eye in Los Angeles, California |
Lynda S. Robinson |
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Lord Meren: chief
investigator for Pharaoh Tutankhamun in ancient Egypt |
Kinley Roby |
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Harry Brock: private investigator, as well as an amateur painter and naturalist, on an island in southwest Florida |
A.E. Roman |
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Chico Santana: wisecracking
private investigator on the outs with his wife, in the Bronx, New
York |
Anthony Rome (Marvin Albert) |
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Tony Rome: gambler
and private investigator in Miami, Florida |
Richard Rosen |
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Harvey Blissberg:
ex-major league baseball player turned private eye, in Boston Massachusetts |
Erik Rosenthal |
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Dan Brodsky: an unemployed mathematician who pays the rent as a private investigator, based in San Francisco, California |
Laura Joh Rowland |
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Sano Ichiro:
samurai and private investigator for the shogun, in the 1600s in
Edo, Japan |
S.J. Rozan |
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Lydia Chin: 30-something
Chinese American private eye, and Bill Smith, a 40-something Army
brat private eye in New York City |
Alan Russell |
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Am Caulfield: hotel
detective in San Diego, California |
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Stuart Winter: private
eye in San Francisco, California |
Craig Russell |
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Lennox: shady private
investigator in 1950s Glasgow, Scotland |
Robert O. Saber (Milton K. Ozaki) |
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Carl Good:
hort 40-something private investigator, in Chicago, Illinois |
Mark Sadler |
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Paul Shaw:
private investigator, and partner in Thayer, Shaw, and Delaney, in
New York City and Los Angeles, California |
James Sallis |
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Lew Griffin: black
private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Charles Salzberg |
• |
Henry Swann: private
investigator subsisting on skip-tracing in Manhattan, New York City |
Walter Satterthwait |
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Joshua Croft:
wise-cracking private investigator in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Mary Saums |
• |
Willie Taft: former
back-up singer and private investigator, in the South |
Eric Sauter |
• |
Robert Lee Hunter:
wealthy 30-something private investigator, in New Jersey |
Angela Savage |
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Jayne Keeney: 30-something
Australian, former English teacher and private investigator, in Bangkok,
Thailand |
Dorothy L. Sayers |
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Lord Peter Wimsey:
pianist, book collector, and criminologist in London, England |
Bernard Schopen |
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Jack Ross: private
investigator in Reno, Nevada |
Mark Schorr |
• |
Simon Jaffe, known
as “Red Diamond,” a taxi-driver, pulp fiction collector,
and private investigator, in New York City, Los Angeles, and Las
Vegas |
• |
Robert Stark, private
investigator |
Benjamin Schutz |
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Leo Haggerty:
rough and tough private investigator in Washington DC |
Sandra Scoppettone |
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Lauren Laurano:
lesbian private investigator in Manhattan, New York |
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Faye Quick:
private investigator in 1940s New York City |
Trevor Scott |
• |
Tony Caruso: private
investigator working out of his home-office in an old Ford pickup,
with his German-trained bomb-sniffing dog Panzer, a Giant Schnauzer,
in Bend, Oregon |
Barry Shannon |
• |
Revelations St. Jones:
private investigator in the manner of Sam Spade and Phillip Marlowe,
in San Francisco, California |
John Shannon |
• |
Jack Liffey: private
investigator in Los Angeles, California |
William Shatner |
• |
Jack Cardigan: 22nd century ex-cop private investigator in Los
Angeles, California |
Simon Shaw |
• |
Grace Cornish: private investigator in London, England |
Jeff Shelby |
• |
Noah Braddock: surfer
and private investigator in San Diego, California |
Lynn Shepherd |
• |
Charles Maddox: former Metropolitan police officer now working privately as a thief taker (detective) in 1850s London, England |
David J. Sherman |
• |
Jack Murphy: ex-cop turned private investigator, in Los Angeles,
California |
Steve Sherman |
• |
Hugh Quint: ex-cop private investigator in New Hampshire |
Howard Shrier |
• |
Jonah Geller: private
investigator, and his partner, Jenn Raudsepp, based in Toronto, Ontario,
Canada |
M.K. Shuman (Malcolm Shuman) |
• |
Micah Dunn:
private investigator in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Dan Simmons |
• |
Joe Kurtz: ex-private eye, ex-con in Buffalo, New York |
Roger L. Simon |
• |
Moses Wine: private
investigator in Los Angeles, California |
Gillian Slovo |
• |
Kate Baeier: Portuguese journalist turned private investigator,
in London, England |
M. Louise Smith |
• |
Middy Brown: mature liberated woman, a consultant for StarWay
Beauty Products, and an assistant to a private investigator in Denver,
Colorado |
Thomas E. Sniegoski |
• |
Remy Chandler: angel turned private investgator, in Boston, Massachusetts, in an urban fantasy series |
Teresa Solana |
• |
Eduard Martíez and
Borja Masdéu, non-identical twins and partners in Frau Consultants,
an extralegal investigative agency, in Barcelona, Spain |
Stephen Solomita |
• |
Stanley Moodrow:
cop turned private investigator, in New York City |
Bart Spicer |
• |
Carney Wilde: private
investigator based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Peter Spiegelman |
• |
John March: black
sheep of a staid merchant-banking family, now an ex-deputy sheriff
working as a private investigator, in Manhattan, New York City |
Mickey Spillane |
• |
Mike Hammer: private
eye in New York City |
Tony Spinosa (Reed Farrel Coleman) |
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Joe Serpe:
disgraced NYPD narcotics detective, now driving a heating oil delivery
truck and doing some private investigating with his nemesis Bob Healy,
the retired Internal Affairs officer, in New York City |
Michelle Spring |
• |
Laura Principal:
academic turned private investigator in London, England |
Gunnar Staalesen |
• |
Varg Veum: private
investigator in Bergen, Norway |
Dana Stabenow |
• |
Kate Shugak: native
Alaskan ex-DA investigator in Alaska |
Cath Staincliffe |
• |
Sal Kilkenny:
single-mother private eye in Manchester, England |
Kelli Stanley |
• |
Arcturus: the Roman
governor’s doctor and investigator, in 83 AD Londinium, Britain |
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Miranda Corbie:
private investigator, Spanish Civil War nurse, and ex-escort, in
1940s San Francisco, California |
Domenic Stansberry |
• |
Dante Mancuso: private investigator, AKA the Pelican, in the North
Beach area of San Francisco, California |
Neville Steed |
• |
Johnny Black: private
detective in 1930s England |
Richard Stevenson |
• |
Donald Strachey:
gay private investigator, and Timothy Calahan, a legislative aide
for a New York state senator, in Albany, New York |
Eric Stone |
• |
Ray Sharp: American expatriate journalist and detective in
east Asia |
Michael Stone |
• |
Streeter:
bounty hunter and private investigator, in Denver, Colorado |
Nick Stone |
• |
Max Mingus: ex-cop private investigator, in Miami, Florida,
and Haiti |
T.A. Stone |
• |
Jonathan Kraag: former
FBI profiler now a PI, Director of Security, ADMS in Ravensburg,
Illinois |
Rex Stout |
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Nero Wolfe: private
investigator, orchid cultivator, and gourmet, and his assistant,
Archie Goodwin, in New York City |
|
Nero Wolfe mysteries by Robert
Goldsborough |
Andy Straka |
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Frank Pavlicek: ex-NYPD cop, now a private investigator and
falconer, in Charlottesville, Virginia |
John Straley |
• |
Cecil Younger: alcoholic
private investigator in Sitka, Alaska |
Dorothy Sucher |
• |
Sabina Swift: a
detective agency owner in Washington DC |
Winona Sullivan |
• |
Cecile Buddenbrooks:
licensed private investigator and heiress-nun in Boston, Massachusetts |
James Swain |
• |
Jack Carpenter:
former head of Broward County (Florida) Missing Persons Unit, now
a private investigator in south Florida |
• |
Tony Valentine: ex-cop investigator specializing in catching
casino cheats in Las Vegas, Nevada |
Doug J. Swanson |
• |
Jack Flippo: private
investigator in Dallas, Texas |
Kate Sweeney |
• |
Kate Ryan: middle-aged, accident prone, ex-private investigator, who later returns to Ryan, Costello, and Winfield Investigations, in Chicago, Illinois |
Leann Sweeney |
• |
Abby Rose: private investigator in Houston, Texas, in the Yellow
Rose Mysteries |
Paco Ignacio Taibo II |
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Hector Belascoaran Shayne: one-eyed, half-Irish, half-Basque,
Coca-Cola-swilling private investigator in Mexico City |
Elizabeth Atwood Taylor |
• |
Maggie Elliott:
ex-filmmaker and private investigator, based in San Francisco, California |
Jean Taylor |
• |
Maggie Garrett: young,
lesbian private investigator, in San Francisco, California |
Jaden Terrell |
• |
Jared Mckean: ex-cop in his mid-30s, now a private investigator, with a fondness for horses, a son with Down Syndrome, and an ex-wife, in Nashville, Tennessee |
Jane Tesh |
• |
Madeline “Mac” Maclin:
divorced former local beauty queen, and struggling private investigator,
in Celosia, North Carolina |
• |
David Randall: private
detective, and his psychic friend Camden, in Parkland, North Carolina,
in the Grace Street mysteries |
Richard J. Thomas |
• |
D.B. Murphy: ex-blacksmith
private investigator in the 1920s-1930s, in the Georgian Bay port
town of Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada |
Will Thomas |
• |
Cyrus Barker: private detective, and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn,
an ex-student and ex-thief, in Victorian London, England |
Ernest Tidyman |
• |
John Shaft: tough,
black private detective in New York City |
Ronald Tierney |
• |
Carly Paladino:
private investigator formerly with a large security
firm, and Noah Lang, a streetwise PI, in San Francisco, California |
• |
Dietrich “Deets” Shanahan:
70-something former Army intelligence officer and semi-retired private
investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana |
Mark Timlin |
• |
Nick Sharman: hard-living
ex-cop private eye in London, England |
Teona Tone |
• |
Kyra Keaton: aristocratic
lady private investigator running her own agency in 1899-1907 Washington,
DC |
Paul Tremblay |
• |
Mark Genevich: narcoleptic
private investigator in South Boston, Massachusetts |
Miles Tripp |
• |
John Samson: private
investigator in London, England |
Robert Upton |
• |
Amos McGuffin:
hard-drinking, golf-playing private investigator, based in San
Francisco, California (also in Los Angeles and New York City) |
Andrew H. Vachss |
• |
Burke: outlaw
soldier-of-fortune investigator in New York City |
Jonathan Valin |
• |
Harry Stoner: private
investigator in Cincinnati, Ohio |
S.S. Van Dine |
• |
Philo Vance: art connoisseur
and private investigator in New York City |
Judith Van Gieson |
• |
Neil Hamel:
attorney and investigator in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
David J. Walker |
• |
Malachy P. Foley:
jazz piano-playing private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
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Kirsten: owner of
the Wild Onion, Ltd, a private detective agency, and her husband
Dugan, a lawyer, in Chicago, Illinois |
Robert W. Walker |
• |
Marcus Rydell:
retired police detective working as a private investigator, and Dr.
Katrina “Kat” Holley, in Atlanta, Georgia |
Patricia Wallace |
• |
Sydney Bryant:
private investigator in San Diego, California |
Dave Warner |
• |
Andrew “Lizard” Zirk:
former rock star turned private investigator, based in Australia |
Betty Webb |
• |
Lena Jones: of Desert
Investigations in Scottsdale, Arizona |
Pat Welch |
• |
Helen Black: ex-cop lesbian private investigator, based in Berkeley, California |
Carolyn Wells |
• |
Alan Ford:
connoisseur and gentleman private investigator, in New York City |
• |
Fleming Stone:
bookish private investigator, frequently called in to help the
police solve a crime, in New York City |
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Pennington “Penny” Wise:
psychic private investigator, and his female sidekick Zizi, in
New York City and New England |
Patricia Wentworth |
• |
Miss Maud
Silver: retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional
private detective, in London, England |
Valerie Wilson Wesley |
• |
Tamara Hayle:
black ex-cop turned private investigator in Newark, New Jersey |
John Wessel |
• |
Harding: unlicensed
private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
Robert Westbrook |
• |
Howard Moon Deer:
private investigator in San Geronimo, New Mexico |
Peter Whalley |
• |
Harry Sommers: former
bouncer and con man, now a private investigator, based in London,
England |
Dave White |
• |
Jackson Donne: ex-cop
private investigator, or night security guard when times are hard,
in New Brunswick, New Jersey |
Stella Whitelaw |
• |
Jordan Lacey:
ex-cop, start-up private investigator, in Latching, England |
Sam Wiebe |
• |
Dave Wakeland: ex-cop turned private investigator in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Collin Wilcox |
• |
Alan Bernhardt:
actor-director private investigator in San Francisco, California |
Michael Wiley |
• |
Joe Kozmarski:
private investigator in Chicago, Illinois |
Kate Wilhelm |
• |
Charlie Meiklejohn:
ex-arson investigator private investigator, and Constance Leidl,
a psychologist, in New York |
Amanda Kyle Williams |
• |
Keye Street:
Chinese-American private investigator, booted out of the FBI for
alchoholism, in Atlanta, Georgia |
Derek Wilson |
• |
Nathanial Gye: paranormal investigator based in Cambridge, England |
• |
Tim Lacy: security expert investigating crime and fraud in the
international art world |
F. Paul Wilson |
• |
Repairman Jack: free-lance investigator regularly working outside
the law |
Chris Wiltz |
• |
Neal Rafferty: third-generation
cop turned private investigator, in New Orleans, Louisiana |
Mary Wings |
• |
Emma Victor: private
investigator in San Francisco, California, (Boston, Massachusetts,
in the first book) |
Don Winslow |
• |
Neal Carey: youthful
pickpocket turned private investigator, in New York City |
• |
Boone Daniels: private
investigator who would rather be surfing, in San Diego, California |
Jacqueline Winspear |
• |
Maisie Dobbs: psychologist and investigator based in 1920s and
1930s London, England |
K.J.A. Wishnia |
• |
Filomena Buscarsela:
NYPD cop from Ecuador, who becomes an apprentice private eye, in
New York City |
Steve Womack |
• |
Harry James Denton:
ex-newspaper reporter turned private investigator, in Nashville,
Tennessee |
Wade Wright |
• |
Paul Cameron: private
investigator in southern California |
• |
Bart Condor: tough private
investigator in New York City |
James Yaffee |
• |
Dave: ex-cop investigator, and Mom, Dave’s mother, in Mesa
Grande, Colorado |
Richard Yancey |
• |
Teddy Ruzak: who
failed police academy and wants to be a private investigator, in
Knoxville, Tennessee |
Joyce Yarrow |
• |
Jo Epstein: private
investigator and performance poet, based in Brooklyn, New York |
P.B. Yuill |
• |
James Hazell:
tough private investigator in the East End of London, England |
Vincent Zandri |
• |
Jack Marconi: warden of the maximum security Green Haven Prison, later a private investigator, in New York |
• |
Dick Moonlight: former police detective turned private investigator and massage therapist, in Albany, New York |
Sharon Zukowski |
• |
Blaine Stewart: ex-cop turned private investigator in New York
City |
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