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| Raymond Benson |
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Judy Cooper: 1950s costumed female vigilante known as the Black Stiletto |
| Benjamin Black (John Banville) |
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Quirke: coroner
in 1950s Dublin, Ireland |
| Jack Bludis |
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Brian Kane: private investigator in 1950s Hollywood, California |
| Alan Bradley |
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Flavia de Luce: an
11-year old sleuth and aspiring chemist in 1950, in the small village
of Bishop’s Lacey, England |
| Alan Cook |
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Gary Blanchard: amateur
sleuth in the American West, starting in the 1950s |
| Gaylord Dold |
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Mitch Roberts: private investigator in 1950s Wichita, Kansas, later in London, England, and elsewhere |
| Peter Doyle |
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Billy Glasheen: a lurk
merchant and milk bar cowboy, in post-WWII Sydney, Australia |
| P.S. Elsner |
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Nick Dallas: young but retired cop, now a private investigator, in 1950s Detroit, Michigan |
| Tom Gabbay |
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Jack Teller: in World
War II and later as a CIA agent |
| Pip Granger |
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Rosie Featherby:
child raised by her Aunt Maggie and Uncle Bert
running a Soho cafe in early 1950s London, England |
| Elly Griffiths |
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Max Mephisto, formerly part of the Magic Men, stage magicians who performed special missions during WWII, and Edgar Stephens, a detective inspector, in 1950s Brighton, England |
| Isidore Haiblum |
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Morris Weiss:
Yiddish detective at Weiss and Weiss, in 1950s New York City |
| Suzette A. Hill |
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Rev. Francis Oughterard:
the vicar of Molehill and a flustered murderer and blackmail victim,
along with Bouncer the dog and Maurice the cat, in 1950s Surrey,
England |
| Kathleen Hills |
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John McIntire:
retired military intelligence officer and newly appointed township
constable, in 1950s St. Adele, on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan |
| Bernard Knight |
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Richard Pryor:
a pathologist, and Angela Bray, a biologist, running a private forensic
practice in 1950s Britain, in the Forensic Mystery series |
| Ken Kuhlken |
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Tom Hickey: private
investigator, in California and Nevada, and the next generation,
Clifford Hickey |
| John Lawton |
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Frederick Troy: police
sergeant and later Chief Inspector, from the late 1940s to the 1960s,
in London, England |
| Amanda Matetsky |
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Paige Turner: mystery novelist and crime reporter, and a Korean
War widow, in 1950s New York City |
| Craig McDonald |
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Hector Lassiter:
legendary crime novelist who writes what he lives and lives what
he writes, in the 1930s-1950s |
| Walter Mosley |
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Paris Minton: Watts
bookstore owner, and the dangerous but principled Fearless Jones,
in 1950s Los Angeles, California |
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Easy Rawlins: black
WWII veteran living in 1940s–1950s Los Angeles, California |
| Tamar Myers |
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Amanda Brown:
young American missionary in the Belgian Congo in the 1950s |
| Mark Oldfield |
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Vengeance of Memory trilogy, following three time-lines: Ana María Galindez, a Guardia Civil forensic investigator in contemporary Madrid, Spain; Comandante Leo Guzmán, in the 1950s under Franco; and the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s |
| Richard Parrish |
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Joshua Rabb:
Jewish lawyer in late 1940s and early 1950s working with the Bureau
of Indian Affairs and privately, in Tucson, Arizona |
| Robert Reginald |
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Richard Curtis Van Loan (The Phantom of 1930s-40s fame), drawn out of retirement, in 1950s southern California, in the Phantom Detective Agency mysteries |
| James Runcie |
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Sidney Chambers: 32-year-old bachelor, vicar of Grantchester, and amateur sleuth, in 1950s Cambridgeshire, England, in the Grantchester mysteries |
| Craig Russell |
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Lennox: shady private
investigator in 1950s Glasgow, Scotland |
| A.D. Scott |
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Journalists in the offices of the Highland Gazette, in the mid-1950s
in the highlands of Scotland |
| Tom Rob Smith |
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Leo Demidov: secret
police officer in 1950s Moscow, Russia |
| Andrew Taylor |
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The Lydmouth series:
featuring an ensemble cast, including Richard Thornhill, a detective
inspector, and Jill Francis, a journalist, in Lydmouth, England,
in the 1950s |
| Simon Tolkien |
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William Trave:
detective inspector, and Adam Clayton, a detective constable, in
late 1950s-1960s Oxford, England |
| Jo Walton |
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Peter Carmichael: Scotland
Yard inspector, in an alternative history starting in 1949 Britain,
where WWII ended with a truce in 1941 |
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