Fictional Detectives Trivia

1. In "Bury Your Dead", Canadian author Louise Penny presents which fictional detective?

From Quiz A World of Fictional Detectives

Answer: Armand Gamache

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache appears in over a dozen novels by Louise Penny. "Bury Your Dead" is the sixth novel in the series. In it, during Winter Carnival in Quebec City, Gamache finds himself involved in three crimes: a terrorist plot he earlier averted (ending in his current leave); discovering the murderer in a crime committed in the Literary and Historical Society, possibly involving the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain; and dealing with a murder in the village of Three Pines. The society of Quebec and its environs are highlighted.

From Quiz My Favorite Mystery Solvers

Answer: Martin Cruz Smith

Martin Cruz Smith's eighth Renko novel, "Tatiana", appeared in 2013. The story was inspired by the 2006 murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist who criticized the Second Chechen War and the policies of Vladimir Putin.

From Quiz International Detectives

Answer: a psychologist

Dr. Max Liebermann's mentor, Sigmund Freud, figures into Frank Tallis's stories as Max tries to practice in the emerging science of psychology.

From Quiz He Always Gets His Man...or Woman

Answer: John le Carre

John le Carre is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell. He was born in Dorset, England in 1931. He devoted his time to writing after the success of his espionage thriller "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." The character of George Smiley is featured in several novels, such as "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."

From Quiz What's My Ride?

Answer: Kinsey Millhone

Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone (of the "alphabet" series - "A is for Alibi", "B is for Burglar", etc) is not what anyone could call flashy. She cuts her own hair with a nail scissors, lives in a converted garage, and owns one "all-purpose" dress. Her little Volks beater fit the image precisely.

From Quiz She Always Gets Her Man... or Woman!

Answer: Janet Evanovich

According to Evanovich, the character of Stephanie Plum is much like the author herself. If you have read a Stephanie Plum novel, you are already acquainted with the humor and the quirkiness of the characters.

From Quiz Heroes and Heroines

Answer: Patricia Cornwell

Caro Peacock, Karin Slaughter and Kathy Reichs have all created their own investigators, but Kay Scarpetta is Patricia Cornwell's own. The character is based on a real life former Virginia Chief Medical Examiner, Marcella Fierro MD.

From Quiz Holmes and Poirot

Answer: Afghan War

Poirot's first book is 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles'. In this novel, we are first introduced to Captain Hastings, who is convalescing after being injured in the First World War. The first Sherlock Holmes story is 'A Study in Scarlet'. In this novel, we first meet Watson and are told that he has returned from the second Afghan war, where he was injured in the battle of Maiwand.

From Quiz Fictional Detectives - Part 3

Answer: Magersfontein

Magersfontein Lugg, known as "Maggs", was an ex-burglar who first appeared as Albert Campion's assistant in "Mystery Mile". With the exception of Mafeking, all the battles were victories for the Boers in either the first (1880-1881) or second (1899-1902) Boer War.

From Quiz Fictional Detectives - Part 2

Answer: Joe Pike

Pike is a man of few words, great stealth and agility and cool shades. He's a Viet Nam vet with skill in the martial arts. He became so popular that Crais gave him his own book, "The Watchman", in 2007.

From Quiz Mystery Character Creators: the Sequel

Answer: Mickey Spillane

Spillane's work, in some circles, surpasses some of the earlier favorites (Hammett, Marlowe) for portraying the prototype tough guy private eye.

From Quiz Mystery Character Creators

Answer: Robert B. Parker

Parker has produced more than 30 books featuring the ex-pugilist Spenser and the enigmatic Hawk.

From Quiz Sherlock Holmes versus Hercule Poirot

Answer: The Mysterious Affair At Styles

When Agatha Christie created her detective, Hercule Poirot, she made no secret of the fact that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective, Sherlock Holmes, was a major influence on her own work. In her autobiography, Christie says: "At that date, I was well steeped in the Sherlock Holmes tradition so I considered detectives. Not like Sherlock Holmes, of course: I must invent one of my own...I reviewed such detectives as I had met and admired in books. There was Sherlock Holmes, the one and only - I should never be able to emulate him."

From Quiz Detectives and their creators 1

Answer: Robert Richardson

Reginald Hill created Dalziel and Pascoe, Colin Dexter created Morse and W J Burley created Wycliffe.

From Quiz Name The Detective's Creator

Answer: Dashiell Hammett

For me Bogey will be forever Sam Spade.

From Quiz Mysterious Characters

Answer: John Sandford

Lucas Davenport is a Minnesota Cop and computer whiz. He is the main character in the "Prey" novels.

From Quiz Female Mystery Heroes

Answer:

Over the course of literary history, there have been many great female literary detectives. From elderly spinsters like Agatha Christie's Jane Marple and Patricia Wentworth's Maud Silver to young career women like Helen Wells's nurse Cherry Ames and Carolyn Keene's young sleuth Nancy Drew, female literary detectives come in all shapes and sizes. Nurses were popular careers for some of these women. In addition to Cherry Ames, Mary Roberts Rinehart's Hilda Adams was also a nurse. Mignon G. Eberhart's Sarah Keate was also a nurse. Helen Wells also created Vicki Barr, a flight attendant. Some are private investigators. Flavia Alba is an ancient Roman woman whose father, Didius Falco, is also a detective creation of Lindsey Davis. Kat Colorado is another private eye created by Karen Kijewski. Sue Grafton's private eye Kinsey Millhone appeared in 25 of Grafton's "Alphabet Series". Many are geared toward younger women and children such as Nancy Drew, Cherry Ames and Beverly Gray, created by Clair Blank, whose adventures are depicted from school, college and beyond. Some were very unusual, like Amelia Peabody, created by Elizabeth Peters, who had a passion for crime solving and Egyptology. Josephine Tey's Lucy Pym was a psychologist who assisted the police. Agatha Raisin was a public relations agent turned detective created by MC Beaton. Stuart Palmer's Hildegarde Withers was a school teacher. All of the incorrect answers are characters from non-mystery classic novels.

From Quiz Ladies of Mystery

Answer: Kinsey Millhone

Lives in made over garage. Drives beat up Volkswagen.

From Quiz I'd Like to Meet a Detective

Answer: Tasha Alexander

Tasha Alexander introduced Lady Emily Ashton as a recent widow who solves her husband's murder in 2005's "And Only to Deceive". Over the course of 16 novels (as of 2022), Lady Emily has become an expert in ancient history and traveled extensively with her second husband, Queen's agent Colin Hargraves. Emily's childhood friends, Jeremy, Duke of Buckingham (who styles himself the most useless man in England) and Ivy Brandon, occasionally aid her in solving mysteries, as do Frenchwoman "of a certain age" Cecile and American bluestocking Margaret.

From Quiz A World of Fictional Detectives

Answer: Inspector Espinoza

Espinoza is the Chief of Rio's 12th Precinct. In "A Window In Copacabana", three police officers are murdered within a few days. When Espinoza discovers that all three kept separate apartments with mistresses, he knows that the officers had been accepting bribes. When two of the mistresses are killed, along with a woman mistaken for the third, he has a real mystery to solve, one in which not everything is as it first appears to be.

From Quiz My Favorite Mystery Solvers

Answer: Tony Hillerman

Winner of the Silver Star, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart in World War II, Hillerman wrote 18 novels featuring Chee and Leaphorn among a total of over 30 works of fiction, non-fiction, anthologies, and memoirs. His writing has gained him more than a dozen awards from mystery writing (Edgar Awards, Agatha Award, Spur Award, Macavity Award) to the 2008 Owen Wister Award for "Outstanding Contributions to the American West." Albuquerque has a library and middle school named for him. He passed away in 2008.

From Quiz International Detectives

Answer: daughter

To experience Wallander from the beginning, read Mankell's "The Pyramid". It's a collection of five stories, including Wallander's first case.

From Quiz What's My Ride?

Answer: Hansom cab

Although Conan Doyle occasionally had his detectives using a pony cart or riding, when their adventures took them into the countryside, the vehicle most associated with them has to be the London cab. The Hansom cab was patented in 1834 by Joseph Hansom. It was a light, stable, carriage, and these qualities made it the perfect "for hire" vehicle in the crowded streets of Victorian London.

From Quiz She Always Gets Her Man... or Woman!

Answer: Agatha Christie

Most mystery-novel lovers are familiar with this great author, who also wrote under the name Mary Westmacott. Jane Marple is but one of the fictional detectives created by the author. The disappearance of Agatha Christie for eleven days in 1926 is a mystery in itself. Many theories have been developed as to why she disappeared. Agatha herself never explained her disappearance.

From Quiz Heroes and Heroines

Answer: Basketball

Bolitar became a sports agent when his career as a basketball player was brought to an abrupt end by another player, his rival in more than just sport.

From Quiz Holmes and Poirot

Answer: Whitehaven Mansions

Sherlock Holmes of course stays at 221B, Baker Street, an address which has been immortalized. Hercule Poirot's address is 56B, Whitehaven Mansions. 'The ABC Murders' features a letter sent to Poirot's address, wherein a killer deliberately sent a letter to the wrong address to throw Poirot off the track.

From Quiz Fictional Detectives - Part 2

Answer: Pagan

He is referred to as Pagan several times by old colleagues and teachers from Oxford University, because he would not reveal his Christian name, not revealed until the 12th (of 13) novel. One of the few detective series which has a definitive ending, partially because of the death of the personification of Morse' the late, great John Thaw. The 33 2-hour tv shows differ from the novels which Colin Dexter created as a reflection of himself in 1972.

From Quiz Fictional Detectives, Part 1

Answer: "The Girl in the Cellar"(1961)

Miss Maud Silver, a retired governess turned private detective, appeared in 32 novels and appears to have inspired Miss Jane Marple, who first appeared in 1930. Patricia Wentworth (Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull) also wrote over 30 other novels. "The Girl in the Cellar" appeared shortly after her death in 1961.

From Quiz Our Far-Flung Detectives

Answer: Steven Saylor

Gordianus lived at the end of the Roman Republic. As he solved his cases, he encountered many of Rome's most famous citizens, including Cicero, Crassus, Spartacus, and Julius Caesar.

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