Crime fiction is packed full of dastardly deeds, dogged detectives and villainous criminals. There are several different types of crime fiction from the classic ‘whodunit’ in the style of Agatha Christie or GK Chesterton, detective fiction which follows the investigations of someone like Sherlock Holmes or Inspector Morse, and legal thrillers such as those penned by John Grisham or Paul Levine . Whichever style you prefer, they all have their fair share of mystery and suspense.
Crime fiction has provided us with many memorable characters but how much do you recollect of the finer detail? Do you remember who had a secretary called Miss Lemon or the first name of detective Van der Valk? Certainly Ian Rankin created Inspector Rebus but where was Rebus born? Try this quiz on crime fiction and see if you can ‘detect’ all of the right answers!
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His first Bulldog Drummond book was published in 1920
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Poirot describes her as being 'unbelievably ugly and incredibly efficient'
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Adams was working on a third Gently novel, The Salmon of Doubt, at the time of his death
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Rebus' parents are buried in Fife
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Watson said of Mrs Hudson 'Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity in his life which must have sorely tried her patience. His incredible untidiness, his addiction to music at strange hours, his occasional revolver practice within doors, his weird and often malodorous scientific experiments, and the atmosphere of violence and danger which hung around him made him the very worst tenant in London'
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The Saint is the nickname of Simon Templar, created by Leslie Charteris. The first novel featuring The Saint was Meet the Tiger, published in 1928
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Miss Marple went on to appear in twelve of Agatha Christie's novels and in twenty of her short stories
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Dr Fu Manchu was a criminal mastermind and the archetypal evil villain
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The first time she appears, in The Case of the Velvet Claws, we are told that Della came from a wealthy family whose fortunes were lost in the stock market crash of 1929, forcing her to get a job as a secretary
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Freeling wrote eleven novels with Piet Van der Valk in them
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