The Amateurs:

Authors--Mystery and Suspense Novelists

Authors--Mystery Critics

Authors--True Crime

Authors--Romance Novelists

Authors--Children's Books

Authors--Novelists and Writers, Generic Category

Authors--Dramatists and Scriptwriters

Authors--Poets

Authors--Cookbooks

Authors--Travel Books

Authors' Agents

Book Editors and Publishers

Bibliophiles and Booksellers

Journalists--Newspaper and Magazine Reporters

Journalists--Freelance Reporters

Journalists--Columnists

Journalists--Newspaper and Magazine Editors and Publishers

Journalists--Photographers and Camera Operators

Journalists--Television and Radio Reporters and "Personalities"

Filmmakers and Television Producers

Agents, Publicists, and Public Relations Experts

Academics--College and University Professors

Academics--Other Scholars and Thinkers

Academics--College and University Administrators

College and University Support Staff

Academics--Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Academics--K-12 Teachers

K-12 Support Staff

Academics--Educational Consultants

Child-Care Providers

Translators

Handwriting Experts

Computer Experts

Engineers and Architects

Scientists

Inventors and Product Designers

Time Travelers

Medical Professionals--Physicians

Medical Professionals--Researchers

Medical Professionals--Nurses

Medical Professionals--Midwives

Medical Professionals--Technicians and Other Personnel

Medical Professionals--Administrators

Medical Professionals--Pharmacists

Other "Healers"

Funeral Directors

Veterinarians and Other Animal Caregivers, Breeders, and Trainers

Psychiatrists and Psychologists

Detectives with Psychological Disorders

Social Workers

The Religious--Roman Catholic Priests

The Religious--Protestant Ministers

The Religious--Rabbis

The Religious--Monks and Brothers

The Religious--Nuns

The Religious--Former Nuns

The Religious--Missionaries

Other Religious

Anthropologists, Archaeologists, Explorers and Adventurers

Geneologists

Military Personnel and Former Military Personnel

Aristocrats, Gentry, Socialites, and Millionnaires

Golddiggers and Society Girls

Butlers, Valets, Housekeepers, Maids, Servants, Chauffeurs, Factotums, Handymen, and Gardeners

Politicians and Government Workers

Other Political Activists

Business and Finance

Secretaries, Gophers, and Other Assistants

Small Business Owners and Other Business Professionals

Union Organizers and Representatives

Ordinary Jobs--Barbers, Hairdressers, and Hair Stylists

Ordinary Jobs--Custodial and Maintenance Workers

Ordinary Jobs--Handymen

Ordinary Jobs--Meter Readers

Ordinary Jobs--Pest Control

Ordinary Jobs--Salespersons

Ordinary Jobs--Sign Painters

Ordinary Jobs--Transportation--Bus and Cab Drivers

Ordinary Jobs--Transportation--Airline, Railway, and Ship Employees

Ordinary Jobs--Travel Agents

Ordinary Jobs--Temporary Workers

Managers/Owners of Hotels, Motels, Bed and Breakfasts, Boardinghouses, Inns, Lodges, and Apartment Complexes

Restaurant Owners and Managers, Chefs, Cooks, Waiters and Waitresses, and Caterers

Restaurant Critics

Wine and Cigar Experts

Owners/Managers of Bars, Clubs, or Saloons, Bartenders, Waitresses, Bouncers, Etc.

Exotic Dancers, Prostitutes, Etc.

Entertainment Industry--Actors and Actresses

Entertainment Industry--Stuntmen, Technicians, and Movie Extras

Entertainment Industry--Comedians

Entertainment Industry--Musicians, Singers, and Songwriters

Entertainment Industry--Dancers

Entertainment Industry--Theatrical Producers, Directors, and Managers

Others Connected to the Entertainment Industry

Athletics--Baseball

Athletics--Basketball

Athletics--Bicycling

Athletics--Boating

Athletics--Boxing

Athletics--Cricket

Athletics--Equestrian Sports

Athletics--Football

Athletics--Golf

Athletics--Running

Athletics--Soccer

Athletics--Tennis

Athletics--Weightlifting

Athletics--Wrestling

Sportswriters and Sportscasters

Sports Agents

Athletics--Miscellaneous

Outdoorsmen--Divers

Outdoorsmen--Sport Fishermen

Outdoorsmen--Commercial Fishermen

Outdoorsmen--Guides

Outdoorsmen--Dog Sledding

Outdoorsmen--Birdwatchers

Game and Puzzle Experts

Daredevils and Magicians

Paranormal Investigators and Debunkers

Ghosts and Spirits

Astrologers, Fortune-Tellers, Psychics, and Other Tamperers with the Paranormal

Carnival Workers and Circus Performers

Gamblers

Gem or Gold Miners

Jewelers

Clothiers, Fashion Designers, and Fashion Models

Home Crafts and Decoration

Clock Experts

Dealers in and Experts on Antiques

Art Dealers, Art Experts, and Museum Personnel

Herbalists, Florists, and Gardening Experts

Social Clubs

Farmers, Ranchers, and Country Folk

Hobos, Drifters, Vagrants, and the Homeless

Recluses and Hermits

Retirees, Widows, Spinsters, and Maiden Aunts

Housewives/Homemakers

Children and Adolescents

Couples

Father-and-Son Teams

Families

Groups Devoted to Detecting

Mystery/Suspense Novelists:

Benedict Carey (created by Nigel Fitzgerald);

Raymond Chandler ("created" by William Denbow);

Agatha Christie ("created" by Gaylord Larsen);

Wilkie Collins ("created" by John Dickson Carr, in The Hungry Goblin);

Wilkie Collins ("created" by William J. Palmer);

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ("created" by Walter Satterthwait);

Jose Daniel Fierro, an author of crime novels (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II);

Jessica Fletcher (created by William Link and Richard Levinson; Donald Bain);

Dashiell Hammett ("created" by Joe Gores);

Dashiell Hammett ("created" by Stuart Kaminsky);

J.D. "Jack" Hawkins (created by W.R. Philbrick);

Ingrid Langley (created by Margaret Duffy);

Charles Latimer (created by Eric Ambler);

Mallory (created by Max Allan Collins);

Jennifer Marsh (created by Judy Fitzwater);

Patricia Martyn-Broyd (created by M.C.Beaton);

Paul McDonald, an aspiring mystery novelist (created by Julie Smith);

Jane Nichols (created by Maureen Tan);

Melinda Pink (created by Gwen Moffat);

Peter Piper (pseudonym of a female writer) (created by Amelia Reynolds);

Ellery Queen (created by Ellery Queen--and writing about a character named Ellery Queen);

Dorothy L. Sayers ("created" by Gaylord Larsen);

Miranda Shaeffer (created by Cynthia Victor);

Henry Tbbett (created by Patricia Moyes);

Harriet Vane, love-interest of Lord Peter Wimsey (created by Dorothy Sayers);

Andrew Wyke [film--Sleuth] (created by Anthony Shaffer).

Mystery Critics:

Stokes Moran, pseudonym of Kyle Malachi (created by Neil McGaughey);

Terry Williams, a doctoral candidate writing a dissertation on detective fiction (created by Tony Strong).

True Crime Writers:

Quinn Booker, the biographer of a former lawman (created by William DeAndrea);

Liz Connors (created by Susan Kelly);

Melissa Craig (created by Betty Rowlands);

Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag, a ghostwriter of celebrity biographies who ghostwrites the autobiography of an unapprehended serial killer (created by David Handler);

Kate McCusker (created by Joanna Elm);

Garner Quinn (created by Jane Waterhouse);

Lydia Strong (created by Lisa Miscione).

Romance Novelists:

Willow King (created by Natasha Cooper);

Ingrid Langley (created by Margaret Duffy);

Patience McKenna (created by Orania Papazoglou);

Dame Millicent, a gothic novelist (created by Robert Bernard);

E.J. Pugh (created by Susan Rogers Cooper).

Children's Novelists:

Lyon Wentworth (created by Richard Forrest).

Novelists/Writers:

Katherine Ardleigh (created by Robin Paige);

Oliver Armiston (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Jane Austen ("created" by Staphanie Barron);

Sam Bayer (created by Jonathan Carroll);

Blackshirt (created by Bruce Graeme);

Mark Bradley, author of celebrity biographies (created by Stan Cutler);

Sarah Candless (created by Barbara Vine);

John Charles (created by Nicolas Freeling);

Samuel Clemens ("created" by Peter J. Hack);

Charles Dickens ("created" by William J. Palmer);

Brigid Donovan (created by Karen Saum);

George Garner (created by Roy Fuller);

Whitney Gower (created by Joan Van Every Frost);

Gale Grayson (created by Teri Holbrook);

Lew Griffin (created by James Sallis);

Bennis Hannaford (created by Jane Haddam);

Anne Hardaway, a ghostwriter (created by Beth Sherman);

Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag, a ghostwriter of celebrity biographies (created by David Handler);

Lucinda Lucas (created by Marian Babson);

Augustus Maltravers (created by Robert Richardson);

Urbino Macintyre, a biographer (created by Edward Sklepowich);

H. L. Mencken ("created" by Don Swaim);

Rose Miller (created by Victoria Gotti);

Tori Miracle (created by Valerie S. Malmont);

Osbert Monk (created by Alisa Craig);

Felix Morsom (created by John Mortimer);

Nebraska, an aspiring writer (created by William J. Reynolds);

Cyrus "Moondog" Nygerski (created by Henry Garfield);

Jay Omega, science-fiction writer (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Dorothy Parker ("created" by George Baxt);

Sylvia Plotkin (created by George Baxt);

Dennis Rickmore (created by Jeffery Ashford);

Taggert Roper (created by William Sanders);

Roger Sherringham (created by Anthony Berkeley);

Peter Stewart (created by Barbara Michaels);

Mark Twain (created by Peter J. Heck);

Richard Verrel (created by Roderic Graeme);

Joe Wilder (created by T.J. Phillips);

Bernard Woodruff (created by Gloria Dank).

Dramatists and Script Writers:

Larry Baker (created by Carter Brown);

Honoria Barlow (created by Charlotte Vale Allen);

Aphra Behn (created by Molly Brown);

Frank Denby (created by Ron Goulart);

Augustus Maltravers, a playwright (created by Robert Richardson);

Keith Moody, a screenwriter (created by Greg Matthews);

Matthew Prior, a playright (created by Anthony Quogan);

Boris Slivka (created by Carter Brown);

Joe Wilder (created by T.J. Phillips).

Poets:

Carlo Arbati (created by John Spencer Hill);

Carver Bascombe (created by Kenn Davis);

Adam Dalgliesh (created by P.D. James);

Lomax Harder (created by Arnold Bennett);

Neil Marshall (created by Tim Hemlin);

Henry Peckover (created by Michael Kenyon);

Fermin Valencia (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II).

Cookbook Authors:

Jane Amanda Edwards (created by Charlotte Murray Russell);

Zachary Grayson, a gay author of cookbooks (created by Ronald Tierney).

Travel Writers:

Helen Bradley (created by Patricia H. Rushford);

Robin Miller (created by Jaye Maiman).

Authors' Agents:

Charlie Green (created by Marlys Millhiser).

Book Editors and Publishers:

Amy Creighton, a freelance book editor (created by A. Carman Clark);

Leo Gold (created by Jay Finkelstein);

Alex Plumtree (created by Julie Kaewert);

Ben Porter, a publisher (created by Elizabeth Travis);

Carrie Porter, a publisher (created by Elizabeth Travis);

Claire Rawlings, an editor of mystery titles (created by Carole Bugge).

Diana Speed, the chief financial officer of a publishing company (created by Tony Gibbs).

Jane Bailey, a bookstore owner (created by Margaret Dobson);

Rosalie Cairns (created by Betsy Struthers);

Dave Cannon (created by Michael Delving);

Matthew Coll, a bookstore owner (created by Roy H. Lewis);

Lark Daily, a bookstore owner (created by Sheila Simonson);

Annie Laurance Darling/Dodd (created by Carolyn G. Hart);

Jeffrey Dean (created by Wayne Warga);

Lark Dodge (created by Sheila Simonson);

Conan Flagg (created by M.K. Wren);

Henry Gamadge (created by Elizabeth Daly);

Rachel Hennings (created by Jon Breen);

Dido Hoare (created by Marianne MacDonald);

Simon "Red Diamond" Jaffa, a collector of pulps (created by Mark Schorr);

Cliff Janeway (created by John Dunning);

Ivor Maddox, police detective and mystery-novel aficionado (created by Elizabeth Linnington);

Claire Malloy (created by Joan Hess);

the Nameless Detective, a collector of pulp mysteries (created by Bill Pronzini);

Bernie Rhodenbarr (created by Lawrence Block);

Sophie Rivers (created by Judith Cutler);

Vincent Starrett (created by William Targ and Lewis Herman);

Fleming Stone (created by Carolyn Wells);

Pere Tabaret (created by Emile Gaboriau);

Penelope Warren (created by Garrison Allen).

Delia Cannon (created by Deborah Adams)

Edward George, a retired librarian (created by Charles Goodrum);

Dewey James (created by Kate Morgan);

Hal Johnson, whose job involves tracking down overdue books (created by James Holding);

Crighton Jones (created by Charles Goodrum);

Basil Killingsley (created by Terrie Curran);

Jacqueline Kirby (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Jordan Poteet (created by Jeff Abbott);

Ben Reese, an archivist (created by Sally S. Wright);

Helen Shandy (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Aurora Teagarden (created by Charlaine Harris);

Glynis Tryon (created by Miriam Grace Monfredo);

Lucy Wayles (created by Lydia Adamson);

Helen Zukas (created by Jo Dereske).

Newspaper and Magazine Reporters:

Laura Ackroyd (created by ?)

Samantha Adams, a crime reporter (created by Sarah Shankman);

Ben Anderson, crime writer (created by Guy Compton);

Jacob Asch, an ex-reporter (created by Arthur Lyons);

Hollis Ball (created by Helen Chappell);

Nigel Bathgate (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Jennie Baxter (created by Robert Barr);

Rosalind Bengal (created by Leslie Forbes);

Darryl Billups, a crime reporter (created by Blair S. Walker);

Robin Bishop (created by Geoffrey Homes);

Alexander Brass (created by Michael Kurland);

Andy Brazil (created by Patricia Cornwell);

Brett (created by R. Austin Freeman);

Mark Brewster (created by William P. McGivern);

Maxey Burnell (created by Carol Cail);

Michael Carolina (created by Thomas Gately Briody);

Molly Cate (created by Mary Willis Walker);

Chance (created by John Ferguson);

Robert Christopher (created by Robert Irvine);

Jack Clancy (created by K.K. Beck);

Lewis Cole (created by Brendan DuBois);

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, a retired journalist (created by Carolyn G. Hart);

Wes Colvin (created by John William Corrington and Joyce H. Corrington);

Daniel Cooper (created by Richard Pollack);

Hugh Curtis (created by Andrew Garve);

Daisy Dalrymple (created by Carola Dunn);

Jane Day (created by Ron Nessen and Joanna Neumann);

William Deacon, a magazine journalist (created by P.M. Carlson);

Sam Dean, a native of Jamaica who works as an American journalist (created by Mike Phillips);

Rick Decker (created by Jim De Brosse);

Harry James Denton, a former newspaper reporter (created by Steven Womack);

Denzil (created by J.J. Connington);

Tom Devlin (created by Carol Jerina);

Stephen Drake (created by Collin Wilcox);

Lindsay Drummond (created by Sally Beauman);

Toby Dyke (created by E.X. Ferrars);

Kay Engles (created by Tress Stein);

Louisa Evans (created by Jane Johnston);

Julio Fernandez (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II);

Peter Finley (created by Mike Lupica);

Paul Fischer (created by Tom Mitcheltree);

Ed "Fitz" Fitzgerald (created by Don Flynn);

Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher (created by Gregory MacDonald);

"Stick" Foster (created by Kevin Robertson);

Jill Francis (created by Andrew Taylor);

Meg Gentry (created by Charlotte Hughes);

Adam Gifford (created by Anthony Lejeune);

Nancy Gold (created by Jody Jaffe);

Lindsay Gordon (created by Val McDermid);

Anna Grant (created by Nicholas Coleridge);

Martin Grant (created by Jim Lilliefors);

C.B. Greenfield (created by Lucille Kallen);

Sadie Greenstreet (created by Richard Moquist);

Jennifer Grey (created by Jerry Jenkins);

Dteve Hadleyman (created by Christian D. Stevens);

Catherine Harrison (created by Carol Jerrina);

Judith Hayes (created by Anna Porter);

Ben Henry, a former reporter (created by Mike Weiss);

Leroy Hicks (created by Elizabeth Daniels Squire);

Nikki Holden (created by Elaine Raco Chase);

Lexy Hyatt (created by Carlene Miller);

Jessica James (created by Meg O'Brien);

Jerry Jetter, a magazine reporter (created by Stephen Robinett);

Tyler Jones (created by Joan M. Drury);

Sarah Joslyn (created by Donald Westlake);

Benjamin Justice (created by John Morgan Wilson);

Irene Kelly (created by Jan Burke);

Truman Kicklighter (created by Kathy Hogan Trocheck);

Bill King (created by B.J. Maylon);

Palmer Kingston (created by Bonnie B. Taylor);

Eldon Larkin (created by Vincent Kohler);

Jim Larkin (created by Martin Russell);

Roz Leigh (created by Minette Walters);

Kate Lipton (created by Nancy Parker);

Christopher Lucas (created by Robert Stone);

Rigel Lynx (created by Thom Elkjer);

Nick Madrid (created by Peter Guttridge);

Molly Magee (created by Peg Case and John Migliore);

Augustus Maltravers, a former journalist (created by Robert Richardson);

Mark Manning (created by Michael Craft);

Pioquinto Manterola (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II);

Jeff Marle (created by John Dickson Carr);

Judo Marriott (created by Martin Joseph Freeman);

Sylvia Martin (created by Erle Stanley Gardner);

Nell Matthews (created by Eve K. Sandstrom);

Matt McCall (created by C.C. Risenhoover);

Paul McDonald (created by Julie Smith);

Jack McEvoy (created by Michael Connelly);

Mac McFarland, a former reporter (created by Douglas Kiker);

Sheila McGrath (created by Timothy Downey);

Jack McMorrow, a former reporter (created by Gerry Boyle);

Addy McNeil (created by Jan Brogan);

Sutton McPhee (created by Brenda English);

John Menden (created by T. Jefferson Parker);

Tess Monaghan (created by Laura Lippman);

Britt Montero (created by Edna Buchanan);

Kate Mulcay (created by Celestine Sibley);

Paul Novak (created by Harold Schechter);

Kiernan O'Connor (created by Kevin Allman);

Horatio T. Parker (created by Lew Matthews);

Joe Potamos (created by Margaret Truman);

Quinn, a crime reporter (created by Harry Carmichael);

Garner Quinn (created by Jane Waterhouse);

Jim Qwillerman, reporter for a small-town newspaper (created by Lillian Jackson Braun);

Joseph Radkin (created by Bob Biderman);

Claire Raymond, a foreign correspondent (created by Dinah Lee Kung);

Albert Richardson (created by George Cooper);

Amanda Roberts, a magazine reporter (created by Sheryl Woods);

Maggie Rome (created by Lucille Kallen);

Joseph Rouletabille [French] (created by Gaston Leroux);

Timothy Rourke (created by Brett Halliday);

Grant Ryland (created by John R. Riggs);

Charlotte Sams (created by Alison Glen);

Delly Sands (created by James D. Doss);

Lucy Shannon, a tabloid reporter (created by R.G. Belsky);

Jemima Shore (created by Antonia Fraser);

Greg Simon (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II);

Dan Starkey [Ireland] (created by Colin Bateman);

Lucy Stone (created by Leslie Meier);

Bill Sweeney (created by Frederic Brown);

Kate Theobald (created by Lionel Black);

Pete Tonneman (created by Maan Meyers);

Philip Trent, a journalist and artist (created by E.C. Bentley);

Tucker (created by Conrad Haynes);

Nyla Wade (created by Vicki P. McConnell);

Dalton Walker (created by John Dunning);

John Wells (created by Keith Peterson);

Bob Whitfield (created by Richard A. Moore);

Porter Wren, a reporter for a tabloid (created by Colin Harrison);

Jolie Wyatt (created by Barbara Burnett Smith).

[See Sportswriters under Athletes . . .]

Freelancers:

Cat Austen (created by Jane Rubino);

Margaret Barlow (created by David Osborn);

Kyle Champion (created by Harold Adams);

Helen Clare, former war correspondent (created by Geraldine Bedell);

Sarah Colloway (created by June Warmbold);

Reynold Frame (created by Herbert Brean);

Judith Hayes (created by Anna Porter);

Claude "Snake" Kirlin (created by Art Bourgeau);

Cat Marsala (created by Barbara D'Amato);

Georgia Lee Maxwell (created by Mickey Friedman);

Jack McMorrow, a former staff reporter (created by Gerry Boyle);

Liz Sullivan (created by Lora Roberts);

Dalton Walker (created by John Dunning);

Emerson Ward (created by Michael W. Sherer);

F.T. Zevich (created by Art Bourgeau).

Columnists:

Angelina Amalfi, a food columnist (created by Joanne Pence);

Carolyn Blue, a food columnist (created by Nancy Fairbanks);

Ezra Brant, a wine expert (created by Tony Aspler);

Alexander Brass (created by Michael Kurland);

Maude Teasdale Cavendish, a society columnist (created by K. K. Beck);

Paris Chandler, an assistant to a columnist (created by Diane K. Shah);

James "Dr. Risk" Denny (created by Bob Berger);

Margo Fortier, a gossip columnist (created by Tony Fennelly);

Sophie Greenway, a food columnist (created by Ellen Hart);

Jennifer Grey (created by Jerry Jenkins);

Primrose "Rosie" Holland, an advice columnist (created by Jo Bannister);

Pete Killharney, an investigative political columnist (created by Timothy Downey);

Rain Morgan, a gossip columnist (created by Lesley Grant-Adamson);

Ette Rice, a gossip columnist (created by Diane K. Shah);

Tobin, a film critic (created by Ed Gorman);

Jeet Vaughn, a food critic (created by Carolyn Banks);

Francesca Vierling, a society columnist (created by Elaine Viets);

Chas Wheatley, a restaurant critic (created by Phyllis Richman);

Holly Winter, a columnist for Dog's Life (created by Susan Conant);

Tony Woolrich, a drama critic (created by Milton R. Raison).

Newspaper and Magazine Editors and Publishers:

Richard Armstrong, newspaper publisher/media mogul (created by Jeffrey Archer);

Thea Barlow, editor of Western True Adventures (created by Carol Caverly);

Maxey Burnell, editor and publisher--and primary reporter--for a small Colorado paper (created by Carol Cail);

C[harles] B. Greenfield, newspaper editor (created by Lucille Kallen);

David Halliday, a newspaper publisher and editor (created by H. Baldwin Taylor);

Bret Hardin, a newspaper editor (created by David Alexander);

Howard Justice, a newspaper owner and publisher (created by Elizabeth Daniels Squire);

Emma Lord, a newspaper publisher (created by Mary Daheim);

Jack McMorrow, the editor of a small-town newspaper (created by Gerry Boyle);

Lydia Miller, an editor of a fashion magazine (created by Eleanor Hyde);

Carmen Ramirez, a newspaper editor (created by Carol Cail);

Garth Ryland, the editor of a small-town newspaper (created by John R. Riggs);

Keith Townsend, a newspaper publisher/media mogul (created by Jeffrey Archer);

Conner Westphal, a newspaper publisher (created by Penny Warner).

Photographers and Camera Operators:

Deborah Alcourt-St. James (created by Elizabeth George);

T.T. Baldwin, a photographer (created by Shannon O'Cork);

Geoffrey Barnett, a news photographer (created by William Bayer);

Jack "Flash" Casey, Boston crime photographer (created by George Harmon Coxe).

Phoebe Fairfax, a television camerawoman (created by Suzanne North);

Stanley Hastings, an investigative photographer for a lawyer specializing in negligence cases (created by Parnell Hall);

Harriet Jeffries, architectural photographer (created by Medora Sale);

Tony Lowell, a photographer/private investigator (created by E.C. Ayres);

Paul McGuire, a sports photographer (created by J.D. Reed);

Kissy Mellors, a photographer (created by Tabitha King);

Kent Murdoch, Boston crime photographer (created by George Harmon Coxe);

Philip Quest, a photographer (created by John Douglas);

Jack Reese, a photographer (created by John Douglas);

Alex Rutledge (created by Tom Corcoran);

Penny Wannawake (created by Susan Moody);

Graham Wells, a photographer specializing in photos of celebrities (created by Alan Russell).

Television and Radio Reporters and "Personalities":

Anna Batory, a freelance television news reporter (created by John Sandford);

Ernest Bisham, a BBC announcer who moonlights as a burglar (created by Donald Henderson);

Alexander Brass (created by Michael Kurland);

Michael Carolina, a former investigative television reporter (created by Thomas Briody);

Michael Carpo, a television newsman (created by Mark Miano);

Robert Christopher, a television reporter (created by Robert Irvine);

Peter Finley, a television reporter (created by Mike Lupica);

Vicki Garcia, a television reporter (created by Robert Irvine);

Jimmy Gillespie, a television news reporter and weekend anchorman (created by John Fink);

Pete Heysen (created by Ian Hamilton);

Tamara Hoyland (created by Jessica Mann);

Robin Hudson, a tabloid-tv reporter (created by Sparkle Hayter);

Jerry Knight, a talk-show host (created by Ron Nessen and Joanna Neumann);

Jenny McKay, a television news reporter (created by Dick Belsky);

Todd Mills (created by R.D. Zimmerman);

Jemima Shore (created by Anntonia Fraser);

Alex Tanner, television researcher (created by Anabel Donald);

Nan Tatum, a disk jockey (created by Beverly Taylor Herald);

Stanley White, a retired television weatherman (created by Willard Scott and Bill Crider);

And Ron Handberg’s series centering on a television newsroom.

Filmmakers and Televison Producers:

Matt Cobb, an executive with a television network (created by William DeAndrea);

Lucy Freers, a filmmaker (created by Lindsay Maracotta);

Ariel Gold, producer of a television newsmagazine (created by Judy Mercer);

Alfred Hitchcock ("created" by George Baxt);

Maggie MacGowan, a documentary filmmaker (created by Wendy Hornsby);

Kevin Mainwaring, a television producer (created by Robert Irvine);

May Morrison (created by Nancy Star).

Tony Quayle, a filmmaker (created by Cecil Dawkins).

Literary Agents, Press Agents, Performers' Agents, Publicists, and Public-Relations Experts:

Harry Baker, an agent for television performers (created by Bartholomew Tucker);

Temple Barr, a public-relations expert (created by Carole Nelson Douglas);

Brenda Bodkin, a publicist (created by John Mortimer);

Charlie Greene, a literary agent (created by Marlys Millhiser);

Honey Huckleberry, a book rep (created by Margaret Moseley);

Douglas Perkins, a public-relations expert (created by Marian Babson);

Peter Sargeant, a press agent (created by Edgar Box);

Jane Stuart, a literary agent (created by Evan Marshall);

Gerry Tate, a public-relations expert (created by Marian Babson).

College and University Professors:

Gillian Adams, a professor of history (created by Nora Kelly);

Tom Allen, a professor of English (created by Marion Boyd);

Jack Amirau, a professor of science (created by Bob Reiss);

James Asher (created by ?);

John Ashwin, a professor of Sanskrit (created by Anthony Boucher);

Carl Atwater, a professor of history (created by Mary V. Welk);

Beth Austin, a professor of English (created by Edith Skom);

Hannah Barlow, a professor of law (created by Carroll Lachnit);

Bel Barrett, a professor of English (created by Jane Isenberg);

Matthew Bartholomew, a professor of medicine (created by Susanna Gregory);

Andrew Basnett, a retired professor of botany (created by E.X. Ferrars);

Luther Bastion (created by Gavin Holt);

Akers Bellamy (created by George Goodchild);

Niccolo Benedetti, a professor of criminology (created by William DeAndrea);

James Yeates Biddle (created by John Mersereau);

Harry Bishop, a professor of political science (created by Conrad Haynes);

Vicky Bliss, a professor of history (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Stefan Borowski, a professor of English/writer-in residence (created by Lew Raphael);

Jennifer Bowen, an art professor (created by Norman Bogner);

Lou Brade (created by Isaac Asimov);

Jason Bradley, a professor of psychology (created by Gaylord Larsen);

Michael Brandon (created by P.L. Gaus);

Herman Brierly, a research scientist (created by Will Levinrew);

Dan Brodsky, a professor of mathematics (created by Erik Rosenthal);

Carl Burns, a professor of English (created by Bill Crider);

Jet Butler (created by B. Reese Johnson);

Claire Camden, a professor of English (created by Audrey Peterson);

Sir Richard Charrington, a professor of archaeology (created by Dilwyn Rees);

Sir Richard Cherrington (created by Glyn Daniel);

Copey Cliff, a retired professor (created by Eric Heath);

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, a professor of journalism (created by Carolyn G. Hart);

Liz Connors, a professor of English (created by Susan Kelly);

Nancy Cook, a professor of English (created by D.J.H. Jones);

Melissa Craig, a professor of English (created by Betty Rowland);

Thea Crawford, a professor of archaeology (created by Jessica Mann);

Daly, a retired professor of English (created by Eilis Dillon);

R.V. Davie, a professor of English (created by V.C. Clinton-Baddeley);

Thaddeus Davis, a professor of English (created by Addison Simmons);

Ernest DeWalt, a professor of English (created by Randall Silvis);

John Dobie, a professor of mathematics (created by Desmond Cory);

MacDougal Duff, a professor of history (created by Charlotte Armstrong);

Cliff Dunbar, a professor of English (created by Will Hariss);

Dundas (created by J.J. Connington);

Janet Eldine, a professor of psychology (created by Charlotte Epstein);

Mark Easterbrook (created by Agatha Christie);

Colin Edwards, a retired professor of archaeology, created by Gordon Randolph Willey);

Lydia Fairchild, a professor of law (created by D.R. Meredith);

William Falconer, a professor of philosophy (created by Ian Morson);

Kate Fansler, a professor of English (created by Amanda Cross);

Gervase Fen, a professor of English (created by Edmund Crispin);

Dean Cranston Fessing (created by Alfred Alcorn);

John Fowler, a professor of English (created by Herbert Dalmas);

Robert "Mongo" Fredrickson, a professor of criminology (created by George Chesbro);

Paula Glenning, a professor of English (created by Anna Clarke);

James Glowery (created by Anthony Lejeune);

James Goff (created by Anna Clarke);

Glad Gold, a professor of English (created by Theodora Wender);

Patrick Grant, a professor of English (created by Margaret Yorke);

William Gray, a professor of history (created by Cathleen Jordan);

Anneke Haagen, a professor of computer science (created by Susan Holtzer);

Curt Halstead, a professor of sociology (created by Joe Gores);

Cyrus Hatch (created by Frederick C. Davis);

Millicent Hetherege, a professor of English (created by Robert Bernard);

Philip Hoag, a professor of archaeology (created by Alex Gordon);

Nick Hoffman, a professor of English (created by Lew Raphael);

Fabian Honeychurch, a visiting professor (created by Edward Candy);

Roz Howard, a professor of English (created by Susan Kenney);

Ben Johnson, a professor of anthropology (created by Peter Levi);

Rufus Jones, a professor of chemistry (created by K. Alison LaRoche);

Zoe Kaplan, a professor of journalism (created by Susan Holtzer);

Neil Kelly (created by S.F.X. Dean);

Homer Kelly, a professor of English (created by Jane Langton);

Ned Kelvin (created by ?);

Craig Kennedy, a professor of chemistry (created by Arthur B. Reeve);

Joanne Kilbourn, a Canadian professor of political science (created by Gail Bowen);

Hannah Land, a professor of political science (created by Amanda Mackay);

Loretta Larson, a professor of English (created by Joan Smith);

Annie Laurence, a professor of journalism (created by Carolyn G. Hart);

Loretta Lawson, a professor of linguistics (created by Joan Smith);

David Leonardo (created by Warren Murphy);

Graham Loudon (created by D.M. Devine);

Adam Ludlow, a professor of English (created by Simon Nash);

Farran Mackenzie, a professor of history (created by Maggie Wheeler);

Professor Malcolm (created by Tom Bradby);

Sheila Malory, a professor of English (created by Hazel Holt);

Harley Manners, a professor of psychology (created by Charles Judson Dutton);

Maria Masterson, a professor of English (created by Sarah Dunant);

Eric Mather (created by Dorothy Salisbury Davis);

Max Mather, a professor of art (created by Morris West);

Preston H. Mattson, a professor of art (created by Susan Oleksiw);

Haley McAlister, a professor of psychology (created by Janice Kiecolt-Glaser);

Jane McBride, a professor of economics (created by Susan Froetschel);

Cole McCurtain (created by Louis Owens);

Jay Owens Mega, a professor of engineering (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Loren Mensing, a professor of law (created by Francis M. Nevins);

Theodora Morelli, a professor of History (created by Linda French);

Cassie Newton, a professor of French (created by Joan Smith);

Antonia Nielson (created by Carol Clemeau);

Felicity Norman, an art professor (created by Coral Lansbury);

Gideon Oliver, a professor of anthropology (created by Aaron J. Elkins);

Jay Omega, a professor and author of science-fiction (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Jocelyn O'Roarke, a professor of theater studies (created by Jane Dentinger);

Karen Pelletier, a professor of English (created by Joanne Dobson);

Pennyfeather, a professor of English (created by D.B. Olsen);

Athena Pierce, a professor of philosophy (created by Richard Purtill);

Henry Poggioli, a professor of psychology (created by T.S. Stribling);

Pons, a professor of psychology (created by C.D. Kiny);

Nassim Pride, a professor of science (created by Eona Petrie);

Lancelot Priestley, a professor of mathematics (created by John Rhode);

Henry Pym, a professor of zoology (created by W.J. Burley);

Emerson Radcliffe, a professor of linguistics (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Molly Rafferty, a professor of history (created by Sophie Belfort);

Jon Ramsay (created by Arville Nonweiler);

Jamie Ramsgill, a professor of architecture (created by J. Bradberry);

Kevin Randall, a professor of English (created by David Klass);

Gregory Roberts, an English professor who teaches a course in Crime Fiction (created by Edward Candy);

Huntoon Rogers (created by Clifford Knight);

Matthew Rogerson, a professor of philosophy (created by Ralph McInerny);

Delia Ross-Merlani, a professor of philosophy (created by S.L. Florian);

Flip Ryan, an English professor (created by Jack M. Bickham);

Maggie Ryan, a professor of statistics (created by P.M. Carlson);

Catherine Sayler, a professor of genetics (created by Linda Grant);

Peter Shandy, a professor of horticulture (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Peter Utley Shane, a professor of sociology (created by Francis Bonnamy);

Simon Shaw, a professor of history (created by Sarah R. Shaber);

Doc Shelly, a professor of English (created by Amelia Reynolds Long);

Winston Marlowe Sherman, a professor of English (created by M.K. Lorens);

Sister Mary Helen, a professor of history (created by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie);

David Small, a professor of Judaic studies and a rabbi (created by Harry Kemelman);

Nicholas Snow, a professor of Art (created by Lue Zimmelman);

Henry Spearman, a professor of economics (created by Marshall Jevons);

Lee Squires, a professor of English (created by Christine Andreae);

Brian Stratford (created by C.C. Risenhoover);

Bill Stratton (created by Robert Bernard);

John Stubbs, a professor of botany (created by R.T. Campbell;

Hilary Tamar, a professor of law (created by Sarah Caudwell);

Kate Teague, a professor of history (created by Wendy Hornsby);

Thomas Theron, a professor of history (created by Robert Reeves);

Sheila Travis, a professor of diplomacy (created by Patricia H. Sprinkle);

Melvina Trent, a professor of sociology (created by Donna Hill);

Kate Trevorne, a professor of English (created by Paula Gosling);

Ambrose Usher, a professor of philosophy (created by Jocelyn Davey);

Augustus F.S.X. "The Thinking Machine" Van Dusen (created by Jacques Futrelle);

Jackie Walsh, a professor of film studies (created by Melissa Cleary);

Nan Weaver, a professor of English (created by Valerie Miner);

Nicky Welt, a professor of English (created by Harry Kemelman);

Lyon Wentworth, a professor of English (created by Richard Forrest);

Theocritus Lucius Westborough, a professor of classical studies (created by Clyde B. Cason);

Edward Weyland, a professor of anthropology--and also a vampire (created by Suzy McKee Charnas);

Francesca Wilson (created by Janet Neel);

Jane Winfield, a professor of music (created by Audrey Peterson);

Wragby (created by Nicholas Blake);

Michael Wyman, a professor of philosophy (created by Desmond Cory).

Other Scholars and Thinkers:

Aristotle ("created" by Margaret Doody);

David Audley, a research analyst (created by Anthony Price);

Midge Cohen, a Russian scholar (created by Toni Brill);

Gale Grayson, a historian (created by Teri Holbrook);

Nuri Iskirlak, a Turkish philosopher (created by Joan Fleming);

Arnold Landon, a specialist in medieval architecture (created by Roy Lewis);

Sheila Malory, an author of literary criticism (created by Hazel Holt);

Dame Millicent, a medieval scholar (created by Robert Bernard);

Richard Ringwood, a classical scholar serving with the CID (created by Katharine Farrer).

College and University Administrators:

Anne Packer-Brown, a dean (created by Virginia Crosby);

Grace Forrester, a retired dean (created by Ruth Galbraith);

Peter Haas (created by Robin Wilson);

Isabel Macintosh, a dean of the faculty (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Jack Troutbeck, a president of a women's college (created by Ruth Dudley Edwards);

Francesca Wilson, a bursar (created by Janet Neel).

College and University Staff:

Edward George, a retired librarian (created by Charles Goodrum);

Susan Meredith, a Director of Affirmative Action (created by R.D. Brown);

Peggy O'Neill, a campus police officer (created by M.D. Lake).

Undergraduate and Graduate Students:

Lauren Adler (created by Victoria Silver);

Mali Anderson (created by Grace F. Edwards);

Terry Barber (created by Jane Meyerding);

Zach Blumberg, a graduate student (created by Peter Levine);

Nickie Callahan, an undergraduate (created by Charlaine Harris);

Randy Craig (created by Janice MacDonald Mant);

Sarah Deane, a graduate student in English (created by J.S. Borthwick);

William Dougal, a graduate student (created by Andrew Taylor);

Hillary Fenton (created by Patrick Quentin);

Nicole Halpern, an undergraduate (created by Patricia Wallace);

Kate Henderson, an Education major (created by J.R. Hulland);

Michael Hunt, an undergraduate (created by Victoria Silver);

Laura Ireland, a graduate student (created by Linda French Mariz);

Nora James, a graduate student in linguistics (created by Patricia McFall);

Willa Jansson, a law student and editor of the Law Review (created by Lia Matera);

Kate Jasper (created by Jaqueline Girdner);

Edmund "Jupiter" Jones, a graduate student in fine arts (created by Timothy Fuller);

Owen Keane, a graduate student in theology (created by Terence Faherty);

Maria Knight (created by M.J. Adamson);

Anthanasius Septimus Konti (created by Adam Broome);

Richard Malcolm, a graduate student (Created by James Grady);

Mallory (created by Max Allan Collins);

Neil Marshall, a graduate student in creative writing (created by Tim Hemlin);

Dana Morrow, a student of Victorian spiritualism (created by Caroline Llewellyn);

Mary Beth Nelson, a graduate student (created by P.M. Carlson);

Caroline Nevis, an American undergraduate studying in Great Britain (created by Reginald Hill);

Maggie Ryan, a graduate student (created by P.M. Carlson);

Phyllis `Flip' Ryan, graduate student in engineering (created by Jack M. Bickham);

Janet Stevens (created by Irene Allen);

Lisa Stone, an undergraduate (created by Christopher A. Bohjalion);

Lucy Stone, a small-town journalist taking evening classes in literary studies (created by Leslie Meier);

Terry Williams, a graduate student in English (created by Tony Strong);

Finlet Wuerhrmann, a professor's daughter (created by Mildred Davis).

K-12 Teachers:

Joseph Askern, an English teacher (created by Reginald Hill);

Matthew Bartholomew (created by Susanna Gregory);

Christine Bennett (created by Lee Harris);

Katie Byrne [Australian] (created by Chloe Hooper);

Melanie Charrol (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Ellen Cox (created by Donna Ball);

Carolus Deane, British schoolmaster and ex-commando (created by Leo Bruce);

January Esposito, an English teacher in Italy (created by Gregory Dowling);

Walter Hartright, an art teacher (created by Wilkie Collins);

Benjamin January, a music teacher who has been trained as a medical doctor (created by Barbara Hambly);

Maggie Kean, an art teacher (created by Nageeba Davis);

Barrett Lake (created by Shelley Singer);

Bethany Logan, a specialist in learning disabilities (created by Judith Kelman);

Dorothy Martin, a retired teacher (created by Jeanne M. Dams);

Tom Mason, a gay teacher (created by Mark Richard Zubro);

Peter Maxwell [British] (created by M.J. Trow);

Philip Nolan (created by John Griffiths);

Oddie [British] (created by Robert Barnard);

Amanda Pepper, an English teacher (created by Gillian Roberts);

Sylvia Plotkin (created by George Baxt);

Paul Plush, a Latin teacher (created by Oliver Keystone);

Miss Seeton (created by Heron Carvic);

Martie Shayne, a specialist in teaching deaf students (created by H. Edward Hunsburger);

Rei Shimura (created by Sujata Massey);

Marguerite Smith, a retired teacher (created by Marie Lee);

Kate Teague, a history teacher (created by Wendy Hornsby);

Melanie Travis, special education (created by Laurien Berenson);

Hildegarde Withers, a retired New York City school teacher (created by Stuart Palmer).

School Staff:

Skye Denison, a school psychologist (created by Denise Swanson);

Easy Rawlins, a custodian (created by Walter Mosley);

Jack Robson, a custodian (created by Ann Cleaves).

Educational Consultants:

Thea Kozak, a professional educational consultant (created by Kate Flora).

Susan Henshaw, a PTA president (created by Valerie Wolzien).

Child-Care Providers:

Janet Ayres, a nanny (created by Deborah Adams);

Sarah Causeley, a governess (created by Robert Barnard);

Harriet Unwin, a governess (created by Evelyn Hervey).

Margit Anderson (created by Tina Nunnally);

Cassandra Reilly (created by Barbara Wilson).

Ruby Crane (created by Jo Dereske).

Julie Baker (created by Sally Chapman);

Becky Belski (created by C.A. Haddad);

Peter Cassidy (created by Dirk Hanson);

Lucas Davenport, computer game designer (created by John Sandford);

Patricia Delaney, a private investigator with computer expertise (created by Sharon Gwyn Short);

Jake Thomas Fisher, the owner of a computer-chip company (created by R.J. Pinero);

Laura Fleming (created by Toni L.P. Kelner);

P.J. Gray (created by Shirley Kennett);

Anneke Haagen (created by Susan Holtzer);

Allison Hope (created by Susan B. Kelly);

Kidd (created by John Sandford);

Skip Langdon, a private investigator with computer expertise (created by Julie Smith);

Yuri Nevsky (created by Dimitri Gat);

Vic Paoli (created by Sally Chapman);

Catherine Sayler, an undercover operative at a software company (created by Linda Grant);

Ken Tanaka (created by Dale Furutani).

Alexander Gold, an engineer (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Arnold Landon, a specialist in medieval architecture (created by Roy Lewis);

Chris Meadows, an architect (created by Carl Hiassen and Bill Montalbano);

Dirk Pitt, a marine engineer (created by Clive Cussler);

Jamie Ramsgill, an architect (created by James Bradberry);

Merlin Richards, an architect (created by Keith Miles);

Phyllis `Flip' Ryan, graduate student in engineering (created by Jack M. Bickham);

Troy Travers (created by Aileen Schumacher);

Conway Westenhanger, an engineer (created by J.J. Connington).

Scientists:

Baynes, an entomologist (created by Vicars Bell);

Peter Bradley, a physicist (created by Dorothy Salisbury Davis);

Celia Grant, a botanist and horticulturist (created by John Sherwood);

Em Hansen, a geologist (created by Sarah Andrews);

Chazz Koenig, a microbiologist (created by Rob Swigart);

Maris Middleton, a chemist with a specialization in forensics (created by Kaye Davis);

Claire Sharples, a microbiologist specializing in agricultural applications (created by Rebecca Rothenberg);

Sir Charles Sheridan, an amateur scientist (created by Robin Paige);

Channing Stuart, a geologist (created by M. Ruth Myers).

Benjamin Franklin (created by Robert Lee Hall);

Kate Jasper, a gag-gift designer (created by Jaqueline Girdner).

Nicholas Segalla (created by Ann Dukthas).

Physicians:

John Ashwin (created by Anthony Boucher);

Matthew Bartholomew (created by Susanna Gregory);

David Beck, a pediatrician (created by Harlan Cohen);

John Bent, a former doctor (created by H.C. Branson);

Thaddeus Bentiron (created by Ernest M. Poate);

Tom Birdsong (created by Leslie Ford);

Tanner Bishop, investigator for the Center for Disease Control (created by Pamela Mitchell);

Frederick Holmes Blakeley (created by Ernest M. Poate);

Mark Braddon (created by Herbert Adams);

Jimmy Brown (created by Henry Harrison Kroll);

Lucas Brush (created by Frank Dudley);

Nathaniel Bunce (created by E.M. Curtiss);

Claire Burtonall (created by Jonathan Gash);

Nguyen-Anh Dupree (created by Tony Chiu);

Scott Eason, a surgeon (created by Delores Weeks);

Gideon Fell (created by John Dickson Carr);

Dr. Fenimore (created by Robin Hathaway);

Dr. Fitzbrown (created by Mary Fitt);

Reggie Fortune (created by H.C. Bailey);

Colin Frost (created by Josephine Bell);

Earl Garnet (created by Peter Clement);

Alan Gregory (created by Stephen White);

David Gregson (created by Lionel Black);

Toby Harper (created by Tess Gerritsen);

Sam Hawthorne, small-town GP (created by Edward D. Hoch);

Benjamin January (created by Barbara Hambly);

Christopher Jervis (created by R. Austin Freeman);

Sara Linton, a pediatrician and coroner (created by Karin Slaughter);

Timothy Long (created by Josephine Bell);

Jason Love, a "country doctor"/spy (created by James Leasor);

Jenny Malone (created by Peter Hernon);

Cal Marley (created by Bill Pomidor);

Plato Marley, a gerontologist (created by Bill Pomidor);

Haley McAlister (created by Janice Kiecolt-Glaser);

Alex McKenzie (created by J.S. Borthwick);

Mac McCall, a medical student (created by Jack Chase);

Jeffrey McNeill (created by Theodora DuBois);

Meghan (created by Irene Allen);

Sir Henry Merrivale--especially in The Peacock Feathers Murders (created by John Dickson Carr);

John Montrose (created by C.F. Roe);

Toby Parker, an emergency room physician (created by Tess Gerritsen);

Michael Prendergast (created by G.D.H. Cole and M.I. Cole);

Pym (created by W.J. Burley);

Clio Rees (created by Jo Bannister);

Mike Richmond (created by Francis Roe);

Duncan Russthorne (created by Ashland Brown);

John Silence, the "Psychic Physician" (created by Algernon Blackwood);

Kathryn Swinbrooke (created by C.L. Grace);

Benjamin Tancred (created by G.D.H. and M.I. Cole);

Telamon (created by Paul Doherty);

Turner (created by D.M. Devine);

Anne Vernon, a prison physician (created by Alan Scholefield);

Watson (created by Arthur Conan Doyle);

Hugh Westlake, a "country doctor" (created by Jonathan Stagge);

David Wintringham (created by Josephine Bell);

the stories featuring a GP, by Rufus King.

Medical Researchers:

Marissa Blumenthal, an investigator for the Centers for Disease Control (created by Robin Cook);

Celeste Braun, a virologist (created by B.B. Jordan);

John Brook, a brain researcher (created by Peter Hernon);

Kate Denby (created by Iris Johansen);

Daniel Logan, a cancer researcher (created by Harry Stein);

Noah Smith (created by Iris Johansen).

Nurses:

Hilda Adams, a.k.a. "Miss Pinkerton" (created by Mary Roberts Rinehart);

Cherry Aimless (created by Mabel