Sleuths That Don’t Need Sweethearts

‎"Jonathan, will you marry me?” …. “Not even a little bit.” – The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)

Barnes - Carlotta Carlyle

Raymond Chandler - Phillip Marlow
G.K. Chesterton - Father Brown
Lee Child - Jack Reacher
Agatha Christie - Miss Marple
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock
Robert Crais - Elvis Cole
Jo Dereske - Miss Zukas
Colin Dexter - Inspector Morse
Michael Dibdin - Aurelio Zen
John Dunning - Cliff Janeway
Elizabeth Eyre - Sigismondo da Roca
Kinky Friedman - Kinky Friedman
Sue Grafton - Kinsey Millhone
Elly Griffiths - Dr. Ruth Galloway
Steve Hamilton - Alex McKnight
Dashiell Hammett - The Continental Op
Chester Himes - Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson
Lynda La Plante - Jane Tennison
John D. MacDonald - Travis McGee
Ross MacDonald - Lew Archer
Gregory McDonald - Irwin M. “Fletch” Fletcher
Margaret Maron - Sigrid Harald
Marcia Muller - Sharon McCone
Jo Nesbo - Harry Hole
Carol O'Connell - Kathleen Mallory
Sara Paretsky - V. I. Warshawski
Ellis Peters - Brother Cadfael
Roslund-Hellström - Ewert Grens
James Sallis - Lew Griffin
Mickey Spillane - Mike Hammer
Rex Stout - Nero Wolfe
Charles Todd - Ian Rutledge
Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver
Jacqueline Winspear - Maisie Dobbs

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