Crime Fiction Quiz

Are you an amateur detective? A secret sleuth? Test your deductive skills in our Quiz about fictional crimes.

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On Oct 15, 2016
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The star of books including Deadlock, Bitter Medicine, and Blood Shot by Sara Paretsky is whom?

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Who is the author behind Kinsey Millhone the woman who loves junk food and hates hypocrites?

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What is the name of the Colin Dexter character who spent his fictional life in a supporting role until television came to his rescue?

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Who wrote the series of books featuring Navaho tribal police officers Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee?

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Who is known as the Queen of Crime?

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Featuring Los Angeles P.I. Elvis Cole and his associate Joe Pike who wrote The Monkey's Raincoat?

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Spenser is a detective created by author Robert Parker but what is his first name?

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What is the name of the Jeffery Deaver’s quadriplegic detective?

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A bounty hunter from Trenton, New Jersey who first appears in 'One For the Money' what is the name of this Janet Evanovich character?

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What is the name of the place where Miss Marple lives?

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Paul Drake is an often overlooked private investigator who often works with which famous detective?

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In the series of novels featuring Dave Robicheaux there is one novel that doesn't have the Cajun detective as its central character, what is its title?

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Dexter Morgan is a serial killer who kills other murderers, but who created him?

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Who wrote the Judge Dee mysteries which were set in Tang Dynasty China?

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Name the unfinished Phillip Marlowe novel that was completed by Robert B. Parker in 1989?

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Who was the only woman for whom Holmes had an attachment?

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Who is considered to be the world's first literary detective appeared in 'The Murders In the Rue Morgue' in 1841?

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Written by Conan Doyle The Red Headed League is about what?

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Originally called 'Ten Little Niggers' what has Christie's novel thankfully been renamed?

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Dr Kay Scarpetta is the invention of which author?

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