|
| Peter Abresch |
| • |
Jim Dandy:
retired physical therapist, and Dodee Swisher, a gallery
owner, in North America, in the Elderhostel Mysteries |
| Irene Allen |
| • |
Elizabeth Elliot:
a 60-something widowed Quaker meeting clerk in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Margot Arnold |
| • |
Penny Spring:
60-something anthropologist, and Sir Toby Glendower,
a 60-something archaeologist, in Cambridge, England |
| Robert E. Bailey |
| • |
Art Hardin: retired colonel, now a low-keyed private investigator,
in Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Donald Bain |
| • |
Jessica Fletcher: mystery writer in Cabot Cove, Maine, in the “Murder, She Wrote” series |
| Deb Baker |
| • |
Gertie Johnson: 60-something
sleuth in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in the Yooper mysteries |
| Richard Barth |
| • |
Margaret Binton:
70-something little old lady in New York City |
| M.C. Beaton |
| • |
Agatha Raisin: London advertising retiree living in the Cotswolds,
England |
| Mike Befeler |
| • |
Paul Jacobson: 80-something
amateur sleuth, in the Geezer-Lit series |
| Nancy Bell |
| • |
Biggie Weatherford:
grandmother, and J.R. Weatherford, her grandson, in Job’s Crossing,
Texas |
| Baron R. Birtcher |
| • |
Mike Travis: newly retired cop building a charter sailing business,
in Los Angeles, California |
| D.B. Borton |
| • |
Cat Caliban: 60-something
PI-in-training in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Michael Bowen |
| • |
Richard Michaelson: retired Foreign Service Office, and Marjorie
Randolph, a bookstore owner, in Washington, DC |
| Eleanor Boylan |
| • |
Clara Gamadge:
widow of Henry, the forgery expert, in New York City |
| Emily Brightwell |
| • |
Mrs. Jeffries: housekeeper in Victorian London, England |
| Lizbie Brown |
| • |
Elizabeth Blair: American widow quilt shop owner in Bath, England |
| Pat Burden |
| • |
Henry Bassett: retired
Detective Chief Superintendent in Herefordshire, England |
| Thomas Burke |
| • |
Quong Lee: elderly Chinatown philosopher, in London, England |
| Jennifer Scheel Bushman & Jean Artley Szymanski |
| • |
Jane McPherson:
the daughter of an American missionary couple, returning to China
after 60 years |
| Chester Campbell |
| • |
Greg McKenzie: retired Air Force criminal investigator in Nashville,
Tennessee |
| Heron Carvic (Hampton Charles, Hamilton Crane) |
| • |
Miss Emily D. Seeton:
retired British art teacher in Kent, England |
| Nora Charles (Noreen Wald) |
| • |
Kate Kennedy:
senior citizen in south Florida |
| Joyce Christmas |
| • |
Betty Trenka:
retired office manager in Connecticut |
| Ann Cleeves |
| • |
George Palmer-Jones:
retired civil servant and amateur bird watcher,
and his wife Molly, a retired social worker, in Surrey, England |
| Agatha Christie |
| • |
Miss Marple: spinster living in St. Mary's Mead, England |
| Max Allen Collins |
| • |
Nolan: aging thief in Iowa |
| B. (Barbara) Comfort |
| • |
Tish McWhinny:
70-something Vermont artist and painter |
| Alan Cook |
| • |
Lillian Morgan: retired
math professor in a retirement community in Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Colin Cotterill |
| • |
Dr. Siri Paiboun: 70-something national coroner, Nurse Dtui,
and Geung, a developmentally challenged morgue assistant, in 1970s
Laos |
| Elizabeth Spann Craig |
| • |
Myrtle Clover:
80-something retired English teacher who writes a newspaper column,
in fictional Bradley, North Carolina |
| Bill Crider with Willard Scott |
| • |
Stanley Waters: retired weatherman operating a Bed & Breakfast
in Higgins, Virginia |
| David A. Crossman |
| • |
Winston Crisp:
retired National Security code-breaker, on Penobscot Island, Maine,
in the Maine Island mysteries |
| Elizabeth Daly |
| • |
Henry Gamadge:
author, bibliophile and forgery expert in New York City |
| Jeanne M. Dams |
| • |
Dorothy Martin:
American schoolteacher retired in England |
| Shirley Damsgaard |
| • |
Abby and her granddaughter Ophelia Jensen, a reluctant witch who
is a librarian, in a small town in Iowa |
| Nora Deloach |
| • |
Mama, (Grace “Candi” Covington):
African-American county social worker in Otis, South Carolina, and her
daughter Simone Covington, a paralegal in Atlanta, Georgia |
| Jo Dereske |
| • |
Ruby Crane: handwriting
analyst in Michigan |
| Richard Doetsch |
| • |
Michael St. Pierre: master thief nearing retirement, operating in Europe |
| Hildegarde Dolson |
| • |
Lucy Ramsdale: widowed artist, and James McDougal, a homicide
inspector, in Wingate, Connecticu |
| William Doonan |
| • |
Henry Grave: 80-something investigator for the Association of Cruising Vessel Operators |
| Brendan DuBois |
| • |
Lewis Cole: Department
of Defense, retired in Tyler Beach, New Hampshire |
| Martin Edwards |
| • |
Daniel Kind: retired Oxford historian, and Detective Chief Inspector
Hannah Scarlett of the Cold Case Squad, in the Lake District of Englan |
| Ruth Dudley Edwards |
| • |
Robert Amiss: retired civil servant in England |
| Anthony Eglin |
| • |
Lawrence Kingston:
retired botany professor in England, in the English Garden mysteries |
| Ron Ely |
| • |
Jake Sands: retired salvage agent and finder of lost things in
Santa Barbara, California |
| Robert Fish |
| • |
Carruthers,
Simpson, and Biggs: elderly down-on-their-luck mystery
writers, putting their plots into action, in The Murder
League Trilogy |
| Jessica Fletcher |
| • |
Jessica Fletcher:
mystery writer in Cabot Cove, Maine, in the “Murder,
She Wrote” series |
| Steven M. Forman |
| • |
Eddie Perlmutter:
tough Jewish former Boston cop in his late 50s, now retired to Boca
Raton, Florida |
| Daniel Friedman |
| • |
Buck Schatz: 80-something retired cop with memory problems, in Memphis, Tennessee |
| Anne George |
| • |
Patricia Anne “Mouse” Hollowell:
a housewife and Mary Alice “Sister” Crane, who out-lived
three husbands, in Alabama, in the Southern Sisters mysteries |
| Dorothy Gilman |
| • |
Mrs. Pollifax:
grandmother and CIA agent in New Jersey |
| E.X. Giroux |
| • |
Robert (Robby) Forsyth: retired barrister, and Abigail (Sandy)
Sanderson, his crisply efficient secretary, in London, England |
| Ellen Godfrey |
| • |
Rebecca Rosenthal:
80-year-old Polish-born anthropologist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Arthur D. Goldstein |
| • |
Max Guttman: retired
70-something Jewish tailor, starting in New York City, moving to
a senior center in California |
| Gallagher Gray (Katy Munger) |
| • |
T.S. Hubbert:
retired personnel director, and 84-year old Auntie Lil, retired
from the garment industry, in New York City, in the
Partners in Crime series |
| Edith Piñero Green |
| • |
Dearborn V. Pinch: 70-something ladies’ man helping where the police are not wanted, in New York City |
| Patricia Guiver |
| • |
Delilah Doolittle:
British widow and pet detective, and Watson, her Doberman pinscher,
in fictional Surf City (Huntington Beach), California |
| Jane Haddam |
| • |
Gregor Demarkian:
former FBI department head in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Joan Hadley (Joan Hess) |
| • |
Theo Bloomer:
retired florist and former spy |
| Malinda M. Hall |
| • |
Louisa Daniel:
60-ish social worker, and later her daughter Emily and son-in-law
David |
| Mary Bowen Hall |
| • |
Emma Chizzit:
salvage dealer in Sacramento, California |
| John Harvey |
| • |
Frank Elder: ex-cop from Nottingham, now retired and relocated
to Cornwall, England |
| Patricia Harwin |
| • |
Catherine Penny: 60-something divorced librarian, who leaves
New York City to join her daughter in Far Wychwood, England |
| Veronica Heley |
| • |
Ellie Quicke: 50-ish widow and amateur sleuth, in the suburbs
of London, England |
| Richard Helms |
| • |
Pat Gallegher: failed seminarian, retired forensic psychologist,
and jazz musician in, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Sue Henry |
| • |
Maxine “Maxie” McNabb:
60-something Alaskan widow, exploring the USA in her Winnebago with
her faithful companion, miniature dachshund Stretch |
| Kathleen Hills |
| • |
John McIntire: retired military intelligence officer and newly
appointed township constable, in St. Adele, on the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan |
| James Hime |
| • |
Jeremiah Spur: retired white Texas Ranger, and Clyde Thomas,
the first black deputy sheriff, in Brenham, Texas |
| Naomi Hirahara |
| • |
Mas Arai: Japanese-American
Hiroshima survivor, gardener, and sleuth, in Los Angeles, California |
| Hazel Holt |
| • |
Sheila Malory: writer
of literary criticism in Taviscombe, England |
| Maria Hudgins |
| • |
Dotsy Lamb: recently
divorced ancient and medieval history professor from Virginia,
traveling in Europe with
her friend Lettie |
| Fred Hunter |
| • |
Emily Charters: adopted
grandmother of Jeremy Ransom, a homicide detective, in Chicago, Illinois |
| Stuart Kaminsky |
| • |
Abe Lieberman: 60-something Jewish police detective in Chicago, Illinois |
| Marne Davis Kellogg |
| • |
Kick Keswick: who worked for an auction house in London, England,
for 30 years, and was a master jewel thief, now retired to Provence,
France |
| Bill Kent |
| • |
Shep Ladderback: aging obituary writer for a tabloid, and his
assistant Andrea “Andy” Cosicki, who also writes the
Mr. Action consumer column, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Kathleen Moore Knight |
| • |
Elisha Macomber:
70-something Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Penberthy Township,
and proprietor of a fish market, in fictional Penberthy Island, Massachusetts |
| Chris Knopf |
| • |
Sam Acquillo: 50-something, retired engineer, in Southampton,
Long Island, New York |
| Rita Lakin |
| • |
Gladdy Gold: Florida’s Oldest Private Eye and her gang of
retirees, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
| Vicki Lane |
| • |
Elizabeth Goodweather: 50-something widow and proprietor of an herb and flower farm near Asheville, North Carolina, in the Appalachians |
| Suzann Ledbetter |
| • |
Hannah Garvey:
former advertising executive managing the upscale Valhalla Springs
retirement community in the Missouri Ozarks |
| Marie Lee |
| • |
Marguerite Smith: retired science teacher in Cape Cod, Massachusetts |
| John Leslie |
| • |
Gideon Lowry: 50-something,
piano-playing private detective in Key West, Florida |
| Sherry Lewis |
| • |
Fred Vickery: retired building and grounds supervisor in Cutler, Colorado |
| Dick Lochte |
| • |
Leo
Bloodworth: grumpy 50-something private investigator, and Serendipity
Dahlquist, a gum-snapping 15-year-old girl, in Los Angeles, California |
| Annette Mahon |
| • |
Maggie Browne: widow, and the St. Rose Quilting Bee, in Scottsdale,
Arizona |
| Janet McClellan |
| • |
Lynne Fholain: retired Major with the Army Criminal Investigation
Division, in Leadville, Colorado |
| James McCahery |
| • |
Lavina
London: 70-something retired radio personality, in New York |
| Michael McClister |
| • |
Elmo Finn: Vietnam
Vet retired from the CIA, on Longboat Key in Sarasota, Florida |
| Lorena McCourtney |
| • |
Ivy Malone: little old lady who uses her inconspicuousness in her sleuthing |
| • |
Andi McConnell: who turns 60, loses her job, and inherits a limousine |
| Camille Minichino |
| • |
Gloria Lamerino:
50-something physicist in Revere Beach, Massachusetts |
| Brent Monahan |
| • |
John Le Brun: retired sheriff, in 1890s Brunswick, Georgia |
| Kate Morgan |
| • |
Dewey James: 60-something
small town librarian in Hamilton, Kentucky |
| John Mortimer |
| • |
Horace Rumpole: elderly “junior” barrister, and
Old Bailey hack, in London, England |
| Haughton Murphy |
| • |
Reuben Frost:
a retired Wall Street super-lawyer and private investigator |
| Bill Noel |
| • |
Chris Landrum: 50-something
and heading for early retirement on the bohemian barrier island,
Folly, near Charleston, South Carolina, in the Folly Beach mysteries |
| Anthony Oliver |
| • |
Mrs. Lizzie Thomas:
a Welsh widow, and her friend, John Webber, a retired, arthritic
police inspector, in Flaxfield, Suffolk, England |
| Sister Carol Anne O’Marie |
| • |
Sister Mary Helen:
retired nun in San Francisco, California |
| David Osborn |
| • |
Margaret Barlow: 50-something freelance journalist in New York
City |
| Gail Oust |
| • |
Kate McCall: a retiree
and her band of amateur sleuths at Serenity Cove Estates, South Carolina,
in the Bunco Babes mysteries |
| Stuart Palmer |
| • |
Hildegarde Withers:
schoolma’am in New York, later retired to Los Angeles, California |
| Ellis Peters |
| • |
Brother Cadfael: 12th century monk and herbalist in Shrewsbury,
England |
| John Philpin |
| • |
Lucas Frank: retired forensic psychiatrist |
| Tom Piccirilli |
| • |
Anna Lucas: and her grandson Jon Kendrick, a rare book dealer,
in small-town Felicity Grove, in the Dead Past mysteries |
| Ann Purser |
| • |
Ivy Beasley:
a cantankerous spinster, and Gus, a newcomer to the village of Barrington,
England |
| Herbert Resnicow |
| • |
Giles Sullivan:
retired attorney, and Isabel Macintosh, a faculty dean, in Vermont,
in the Crossword Puzzle mysteries |
| T. Dawn Richard |
| • |
May List: senior sleuth on her own after 35 years of marriage |
| Cynthia Riggs |
| • |
Victoria Trumbull:
astute 92-year old Vineyard native and deputy police officer,
in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts |
| Ann B. Ross |
| • |
Miss Julia: elderly
widow in Abbotsville, North Carolina |
| Barnaby Ross (Ellery Queen) |
| • |
Drury Lane: Shakespearian
actor retired due to progressive deafness, on the Hudson River, New
York |
| Jennifer Rowe |
| • |
Tessa Vance: senior detective in Sydney, Australia |
| Mary Saums |
| • |
Jane Thistle: a British lady, and Phoebe Twigg, a Southern lady,
both widows their 60s, in Tullulah, Alabama |
| Bernhard Schlink |
| • |
Gerhard Self:
former public prosecutor during the Nazi era, now a private investigator
in his late 60s, in 1980s Mannheim, in the newly unified Germany |
| John Sherwood |
| • |
Celia Grant: botanist
and horticulturist in London, England |
| Evelyn E. Smith |
| • |
Susan Melville:
spinster art teacher and painter, who becomes a freelance assassin,
in New York City |
| Patricia Houck Sprinkle |
| • |
MacLaren Yarbrough:
business-owner turned magistrate in Hopemore, Georgia, in the Thoroughly
Southern mysteries |
| Elizabeth Daniels Squire |
| • |
Peaches Dann:
absent-minded 50-something widow in North Carolina |
| Jean Stubbs |
| • |
John Lintott: retired
Scotland Yard inspector around the turn of the 20th century, in London,
Paris, and San Francisco |
| Keith Thomson |
| • |
Drummond Clark: 64-year-old
retired CIA operative with Alzheimer’s, and his son Charlie
Clark, a gambler in hock to Russian loan sharks |
| Ronald Tierney |
| • |
Dietrich “Deets” Shanahan:
70-something former Army intelligence officer and semi-retired private
investigator, in Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor) |
| • |
Leonidas
Witherall: retired academic and secret pulp fiction
author, in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Gayle Trent |
| • |
Myrtle Crumb: 60-something
sleuth, in southwest Virginia |
| H.O. Ward |
| • |
Dr. Galimatias, a semi-retired physician based in New Orleans,
Louisiana, and Aramus P. Limpkin, professor of history at a college
in Georgia |
| Livia J. Washburn |
| • |
Phyllis Newsom:
elderly amateur sleuth and pie expert, in Weatherford,
Texas, in the Fresh-Baked mysteries |
| Patricia Wentworth |
| • |
Miss Maud
Silver: retired governess and teacher who becomes a professional
private detective, in London, England |
| Richard F. West |
| • |
Peter Benington:
retired jewel thief, and Benny Ashe, a retired Mob boss, in Coral
Sands, Florida, in the Old Gang of Mine series |
| Eric Wright |
| • |
Mel Pickettl:
60-something retired Toronto cop in Larch River, Canada |
| James Yaffee |
| • |
Mom: and her son,
Dave, an ex-cop
investigator, in Mesa Grande, Colorado |
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