Fictional amateur detectives

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 125. Chapters: Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, Miss Marple, Nancy Drew, Encyclopedia Brown, Perry Mason, Cadfael, Ellery Queen, The Famous Five, The Hardy Boys, Chloe Sullivan, Richard Castle, Veronica Mars, Shaggy Rogers, Sammy Keyes, Jimmy Kudo, Rorschach, Jonathan Creek, Three Investigators, Arsène Lupin, Velma Dinkley, Travis McGee, Father Brown, The Dana Girls, Sister Fidelma, Quincy, M.E., Trixie Belden, Jessica Fletcher, Hawkeye Collins and Amy Adams, The Five Find-Outers, Daphne Blake, Albert Campion, Amelia Peabody, Fred Jones, Ned, The Secret Seven, Cherry Ames, Detective School, Joseph Rouletabille, Meg Duncan, Judex, Bernie Rhodenbarr, Dead Boy Detectives, Kaito Kuroba, Omar Yussef, William of Baskerville, Carland Cross, Lapo Mosca, Power Boys, Kogoro Akechi, Brother Eadulf, Nancy Atherton, Honey Bunch, Montague Egg, Sister Pelagia, Torchy Blane, Batman Jones, Hildegarde Withers, Flim Flam, The Toff, Anthony Gethryn, Li Kao, Gideon Fell, Brains Benton, Harry Devlin, China Bayles, Julian Kestrel, Miss Silver, Philo Gubb, Bill Bergson, Melrose Plant, Penny Parker, The Great Merlini, Bubbles Yablonsky, Miss Seeton, Skin o' My Tooth, Joanne Kilbourn, Manabu Yukawa, Kate Fansler, Drury Lane, Thorpe Hazell, Evadne Mount trilogy. Excerpt: Sherlock Holmes ( ) is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based "consulting detective", Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to take almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases. Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown both to Holmes and to Watson. Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations. Sir Henry Littlejohn, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Public Health at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, is also cited as a source for Holmes. Littlejohn served as Police Surgeon and Medical Officer of Health of Edinburgh, providing for Doyle a link between medical invest