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1. This P.I., based in the fictional California town of Santa Teresa, drove a VW bug for much of the series.
2. Sherlock Homes and Dr Watson came to us before the age of the automobile. However, what form of transportation do we most often see them using?
3. John D MacDonald's Travis McGee is a boat bum, and sometimes uses his houseboat, the Busted Flush, for transportation. However, he does own an automobile which he drives when it is not necessary to be inconspicuous. What is it?
4. Stephanie Plum, the bounty hunter, has used many different cars over the course of the series. They mostly have one thing in common. What is it?
5. Which fictional detective of the 1920s and '30s often drives a 12-cylinder 1927 Daimler four-seater, called Mrs Merdle?
6. This detective rarely leaves the house, but solves his mysteries from behind the big desk in his office when he's not busy upstairs in the orchid rooms. If he does leave home, he is shown riding in (usually) a Heron driven by his wisecracking assistant. Who is he?
7. John Sandford's Lucas Davenport, of the "Prey" series, is another speed demon. What does he race around The Twin Cities and rural Minnesota in?
8. How does the detective in Ellis Peters' long-running series get around, mostly?
9. This Chief Inspector in the fictional town of Kingsmarkham, Sussex usually gets around by car, but rarely drives himself. He tends to have a younger police officer drive him.
10. Elvis Cole, a smart aleck PI with a taste for Pinocchio figurines and Hawaiian shirts, drives a yellow 1966 Corvette Stingray. His partner, Joe Pike, drives an immaculately kept Jeep Cherokee. Who created them?
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