Select a Puzzle 
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Following is a list of detective stories written by well-known authors.
Select one title from each of the eras to read, study and compare.
| Classic | ||
| Wilkie Collins | Sergeant Cuff | The Woman in White The Moonstone |
| Arthur Conan Doyle | Sherlock Holmes | A Study in Scarlet The Sign of Four Hound of the Baskerville The Final Problem The Adventure of the Empty House |
| Edgar Allan Poe | August Dupin | The Murders in the Rue Morgue The Mystery of Marie Roget The Gold Bug The Purloined Letter |
| Golden Age | ||
| Marjory Allingham | Albert Campion | Death of a Ghost |
| Earl Derr Biggers | Charlie Chan | The House without a Key The Chinese Parrot |
| Leslie Charteris | Simon Templar (The Saint) | The Saint Meets the Tiger |
| Agatha Christie | Miss Marple Hercule Poirot | The Murder of Roger Akroyd |
| Amanda Cross | Kate Fansler | In the Last Analysis |
| Erle Stanley Gardner | Perry Mason | The Case of the. . . |
| Anna Katharine Green | Inspector Ebenezer Gryce | The Leavenworth Case |
| Ellery Queen (pseud for Manfred B. Lee and Frederick Dannay) | Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat Mystery The French Powder Mystery |
| Mary Roberts Rinehart | The Man in Lower Ten The Circular Staircase | |
| Dorothy Sayers | Lord Peter Wimsey | Whose Body? |
| Josephine Tey | Alan Grant | The Daughter of Time |
| S.S. Van Dine | Philo Vance | The Benson Murder Case The Canary Murder Case |
| "Hard Boiled" | ||
| Raymond Chandler | Philip Marlowe | The Big Sleep |
| Dashiell Hammett | Sam Spade | The Dain Curse The Maltese Falcon |
| Sue Grafton | Kinsey Milhone | A is for Alibi |
| Chester Himes | Coffin Ed Grave Digger Jones | The Crazy Kill |
| Sara Paretsky | VI Warshawski | Indemnity Only |
| Current | ||
| Isaac Asimov | Elijah (Lije) Baley R. Daneel Olivaw | Caves of Steel |
| Patricia Cornwall | Kay Scarpetta | Postmortem Body of Evidence |
| Richard (Kinky) Friedman | Kinky Friedman | Greenwich Killing Time A Case of Lone Star The Mile High Club |
| Elizabeth George | Inspector Thomas Lynley & Barbara Havers | A Great Deliverance |
| Tony Hillerman | Sgt. Joe Leaphorn Jim Chee | The Blessing Way Dancehall of the Dead |
| P.D. James | Adam Dalgliesh | Shroud For A Nightingale |
| Walter Mosely | Easy Rollins | Devil in a Blue Dress |
| Elizabeth Peters | Amelia Peabody Emerson | Crocodile on a Sandbank |
| Ellis Peters | Brother Cadfael | A Morbid Taste for Bones |
| Anne Perry | Inspector William Monk Inspector Thomas Pitt | The Face of a Stranger The Cater Street Hangman |
| Ruth Rendell | Inspector Wexford | From Doon with Death |
| Robert van Gulik | Judge Dee | Necklace and Calabash |
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