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1. Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks has solved many a mystery throughout the English countryside with the assistance of Detective Annie Cabot in such books as "Gallows View", "In a Dry Season", and "Playing with Fire".
Who is the acclaimed British novelist who spins his tales?
2. Author Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon is a Mossad assassin who has an unusual job which enables him to travel from Israel and around the world without raising great suspicion. Among his marvelous mystery novels are "The Unlikely Spy", "The English Assassin" and "Moscow Rules."
What is his cover occupation?
3. Over 20 times John Sandford has featured Detective Lieutenant Lucas Davenport as the protagonist in his "Prey" series. Davenport is definitely not your run-of-the-mill gumshoe as, among other things, his mode of transportation will attest. Not many law enforcement officers have a killer wardrobe and drive a luxury car, but he does, since he is independently wealthy.
How did he come into his money?
4. Prolific and terrific, Michael Connelly has penned over 20 mystery novels.
Most of them have featured Det. Harry Bosch, and are usually centered in and around Los Angeles. While Harry Bosch is one of the more popular names in fictional crime fighting, Harry is not Bosch's actual first name. Do you know what is the character's actual birth name?
5. Arkady Renko appears in several espionage stories written by Martin Cruz Smith. In the first book of the series, he is a brooding chief investigator working in Moscow for the Soviet Militia as head of homicide investigations. In 1983 this novel was made into a "dark" movie of the same name.
Which of these fine works was it?
6. Mitch Rapp is a "no questions asked" counter-terrorism expert in more than ten books in a strong series which debuted in 1997 with "Term Limits".
Who is the scrivener who brings Mitch Rapp to life?
7. Rizzoli and Isles are a dynamic female duo, one a Boston homicide detective (Jane Rizzoli) and her cohort, a medical examiner (Maura Isles) who is sometimes referred to as "The Queen of the Dead", in a very popular series of novels that began with "The Surgeon" in 2001.
Do you know who wrote this series of books?
8. James Lee Burke has penned over thirty novels, including almost twenty featuring a sheriff's deputy in New Iberia, LA. He once was a police officer in New Orleans, and is a recovering alcoholic who still has nightmares dating back to his time in the service during the Vietnam War. When he was a young child his father was killed in an oil rig fire and his mother deserted the family (and later was murdered). To make matters worse, as an adult his wife has also been murdered.
Who is this depressed defender of decorum?
9. Walter Mosley created Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, who was the focal point of many stories set mostly in the period of the 1940s-1960s.
In and around which major American city did they take place?
10. An astounding 75 novels featuring the Police Commissaire of Paris, Jules Maigret were published between 1931 and 1972. He was known to be a man who enjoyed a glass (or two) of beer, having a good smoke on his pipe and wearing his trademark raincoat despite the weather (which sometimes gave him away as a policeman). His exploits were first seen in "Pietr-le Letton" in 1931, and the curtain closer in 1972 was entitled "Maigret and M. Charles".
Who was the master of mayhem who made Monsieur Maigret materialize?
11. Washington D.C. and environs are the setting for this author's stories of ex-cop and present P.I. Derek Strange. Together he and his partner Terry Quinn form their agency, "Strange Investigations", in 2001's "Right as Rain" and the subsequent novels "Hell to Pay" and "Soul Circus".
Who is this award winning "noir" novelist?
12. Beginning with "Open Season" (2001), and now in over ten novels, we have come to meet and know Joe Pickett, an unlikely hero if ever there was one. He's happily married with a growing family of daughters. Although he is a law enforcer, he is admittedly a poor shot, but makes up for that with dogged determination that helps him, along with his sidekick, Nate Romanowski to keep the peace in and around the Rocky Mountains.
In what capacity is Joe employed?
13. Ed McBain is the name of the author that appears on the popular "87th Precinct" police ensemble series of sharp witted novels set in the city of "Isola", which is widely believed to be based on the N.Y. borough of Manhattan. But Ed McBain is actually the non de plume of the author who wrote another famous book under his legal name.
What is the title of that book and what is his legal name?
14. "Hawk" is the sidekick and ally of one of crime fictions' most popular crime fighters and a creation of one of the genre's best writers (at least in my opinion).
Who is his more famous partner, and who is the author who spun his tales?
15. "The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency" is an interesting series of mysteries written by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. The founder of the African crime fighting agency, and its lead detective, is Mma Precious Ramotswe who later marries Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni, a local mechanic and owner of Tlokweng Speedy Motors. In order to be fully enjoyed, the series books should be read in sequence from the first one, which (not surprisingly) is titled "The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency". Love doesn't take long to bloom between Mma Ramotswe and Mr. Matekoni since "Tears of the Giraffe" is just the second book in the series.
Do you know in which capital city the ladies do most of their crime fighting?
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