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 Maney);

Nurse Carmichael (created by Anthea Cohen);

Edwina Crusoe (created by Mary Kitteredge);

Sarah Keate (created by Mignon G. Eberhart);

Kate Kinsella (created by Christine Green);

Hester Latterly (created by Anne Perry);

Timmie Leary, a trauma nurse (created by Eileen Dreyer);

Kate Manion, a critical-care nurse (created by Catherine Coulter).

Midwives:

Hannah Trevor (created by Margaret Lawrence).

Medical Technicians and Other Personnel:

Virginia Freer, a physiotherapist (created by E.X. Ferrars);

Taylor Morgan, a medical rescue pilot (created by Dana Stabenow);

Stewart Park, a hospital morgue photographer (created by Penelope Evans).

Medical Administrators, etc.:

Jordan Myles, a co-owner of a sports clinic (created by Martina Navratilova and Liz Nickles);

Bert Swain, a public relations expert employed by a medical research center (created by Paul Nathan).

Dentists:

Charles "Doc" Adams, oral surgeon (created by Rick Boyer);

Peter Roberts (created by Dennis Asen).

Other "Healers":

Lady Aoi (created by Ann Woodward);

Brother Cadfael (created by Ellis Peters);

Carrie Carlin, a biofeedback practitioner (created by Nancy Tesler).

Ruthie Kantor Morris (created by Renee Horowitz).

Bill Hawley (created by Leo Axler);

Drew Slocombe (created by Rebecca Tope).

Rachel Alexander, a dog trainer (created by Carol Lea Benjamin);

Gordon Christy, a veterinarian (created by Barbara Moore);

John Cunningham, a breeder of hunting dogs (Created by Gerald Hammond);

Artie Deemer, the owner of "celebrity" dogs (created by Dallas Murphy);

Katherine Driscoll, a dog trainer (created by Mary Willis Walker);

Samantha Holt, a veterinarian (created by Karen Ann Wilson).

Gail McCarthy, a veterinarian (created by Laura Crum);

Alice Nestleton, a cat-sitter (created by Lydia Adamson);

Andi Paulding, a veterinarian (created by Lillian M. Roberts);

Jessica Phillips, a veterinarian (created by Pat Hewitt);

Deirdre "Didi" Quinn Nightingale, a veterinarian (created by Lydia Adamson);

Brenna Scott, a breeder and trainer of search-and-rescue dogs (created by Cynthia G. Alwyn);

Jo Beth Sidden, a dog breeder (created by Virginia Lanier);

Sally Tepper, the owner of five dogs (created by Frank King).

Wade Anthony (created by Eric Heath);

Emmanuel Cellini (created by John Creasey);

Susan Chandler, a radio psychologist (created by Mary Higgins Clark);

Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist (created by Martha C. Lawrence);

Jim Christensen (created by Martin J. Smith);

Alex Cross, a police psychologist (created by James Patterson);

Dan Damon (created by Gene Goldsmith);

Alex Delaware (created by Jonathan Kellerman);

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

Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald (created by Jim Mortimore);

Lucas Frank, a forensic psychologist (created by John Philpin);

Kit Franklin (created by D.J. Donaldson);

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

Eustace Hailey (created by Anthony Wynne);

Igi Heitmann [Norwegian] (created by Pernille Rygg);

Harry Kline (created by Philip Luber);

Caleb Knowles (created by Carla Damron);

Laszlo Kreizler (created by Caleb Carr);

Joanna Lander (created by Connie Willis);

Daphne Matthews, a police psychologist (created by Ridley Pearson);

Haley McAlister (created by Janice Kiecolt-Glaser);

Cassidy McCabe (created by Alex Matthews);

Blue McCarron (created by Abigail Padgett);

Anne Menlo, a child psychologist (created by Maxine O'Callaghan);

Edward Norton (created by Sam Llewellyn);

Paul Prye (created by Margaret Millar);

Kit Quinn, a police psychiatrist (created by Nicci French);

Elizabeth Santer (created by Katherine John);

Kate Sinclair, a family therapist (created by Joy Fielding);

Michael Stone, a female forensic psychologist (created by Anna Salter);

Sylvia Strange, a forensic psychologist (created by Sarah Lovett);

Basil Willing (created by Helen McCloy);

the psychiatrist in George Dyer's Catalyst Club of amateur detectives.

Bo Bradley, bi-polar disorder (created by Abigail Padgett);

William Monk, amnesia (created by Anne Perry);

Scott Moody, a former mental patient (created by Steve Oliver);

Evan Tanner, insomnia (created by Lawrence Block);

Alexander Von Reisden, amnesia (created by Sarah Smith).

Mici Anholt, New York Crime Victims Compensation Board (created by Lillian O'Donnell);

Margaret Binton, a volunteer at a center for the needy (created by Richard Barth);

Bo Bradley, a child-abuse investigator (created by Abigail Padgett);

Adele Buffington, Indianapolis (created by Michael Z. Lewin);

Jenny Cain, the director of a charitable foundation (created by Nancy Pickard);

Laura Michaels (created by John Miles);

Molly West, an administrator of a meal-delivery program (created by Patricia Tichenor Westfall);

Arnold "Zip" Zipke, a caseworker in a Youth Employment Office (created by Jack Kendall).

Roman Catholic Priests:

Father Joseph Bredder (created by Leonard Holton);

Father Brown (created by G.K. Chesterton);

Father Roger Dowling (created by Ralph McInerny);

Father Felix Fabri (created by Sheri Holman);

Mother Lavinia Grey, an Episcopal priest (created by Kate Gallison);

Father Robert Koesler (created by William X. Kienzle);

Father John O'Malley (created by Margaret Coel);

Father Pearse (created by Jonathan Rabb);

Father Lorenzo Quart (created by Arturo Perez-Reverte);

Father John Blackwood "Blackie" Ryan (created by Andrew Greeley);

Father Joseph Shanley (created by Jack Webb);

Father Mark Townsend (created by Brad Reynolds, S.J.).

Father Zachary Tully (created by William X. Kienzle);

Father Wheatley (created by William X. Kienzle).

Protestant Ministers:

Claire Aldington (created by Isabelle Holland);

Claire Gergusson, female Episcopal (created by Julia Spencer-Fleming);

Rev. Richard Harrison, Anglican (created by Michael Anthony);

Rev. Lucas Holt, Episcopal and former prison chaplain (created by Charles Meyer).

Archdeacon Pennyfeather (created by Agatha Christie);

Rev. Con Randollph (created by Charles Merrill Smith);

Rev. Dan Thompson (created by Dean Feldmeyer).

Rabbis:

Rabbi David Small (created by Harry Kemelman).

Monks and Brothers:

Brother Athelstan (created by Paul Harding);

Brother Cadfael (created by Ellis Peters);

Brother Michael (created by Susanna Gregory);

William of Baskerville (created by Umberto Eco).

Nuns:

Sister Agnes Bourdillon (created by Alison Joseph);

Sister Angele (created by Henri Catalan);

Sister Catherine LeVendeur (created by Sharan Newman);

Sister Fidelma (created by Peter Tremayne);

Sister Frevisse (created by Margaret Frazer);

Sister Joan (created by Veronica Black);

Mother Lavina (created by Kate Gallison);

Sister Mary Helen (created by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie);

Sister Mary Teresa Dempsey (created by Monica Quill);

Sister Mary Ursula (created by Anthony Boucher).

Former Nuns:

Christine Bennett (created by Lee Harris);

Brigid Donovan (created by Karen Saum);

Bridget O'Toole (created by Frank McConnell).

Missionaries:

Emily Collins (created by Matthew Head);

Dr. Mary Finney (created by Matthew Head).

Other Religious:

Deacon Theodora Braithwaite (created byD.M. Greenwood);

Sister Rose Callahan, a Shaker (created by Deborah Woodworth);

Elizabeth Elliot, Clerk of the Quaker Meeting in Cambridge (created by Irene Allen);

Karen Hightower, a white witch (created by Rosemary Edgehill).

Catherine Alexander, an archaeologist (created by Barbara Wood);

Hugo Baron, an adventurer (created by John M. Brett);

Vicky Bliss, an art historian (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Howard Carter, an Egyptologist (created by Michael Paine);

Georgia Cavendish, an anthropologist (created by Nicholas Blake);

Lindsay Chamberlain, an archaeologist with a specialization in forensics (created by Beverly Connor);

Sheriff Jules Clement, a former archaeologist (created by Jamie Harrison);

Burton Combs, an adventurer (created by Carroll John Daly);

Radcliffe Emerson, an archaeologist (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Dr. Frock, a forensic anthropologist (created by Douglas Preston);

Sir Toby Glendower, an archaeologist (created by Margot Arnold);

Alan Graham, an archaeologist (created by Malcolm Shuman);

Margo Green, an anthropologist with a specialization in forensics (created by Douglas Preston);

Essington Holt, an adventurer (created by Robert Wallace);

Ben Johnson, an archaeologist (created by Peter Levi);

Veil Kendry, an adventurer (created by George Chesbro);

Arnold Landon, an archaeologist (created by Roy Lewis);

Iris Lanier, an anthropologist (created by Darian North);

Elizabeth MacPherson, a forensic anthropologist (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Andrew Mallory, an anthropologist (created by Charity Blackstock);

Kate Moore, an expert in ancient folklore (created by Barbara Michaels);

Gideon Oliver, an anthropologist with a specialization in forensics (created by Aaron Elkins);

Gerald Otley, an adventurer (created by Martin Waddell);

Thibault Parew (created by Gilbert Eldredge);

Amelia Peabody, an Egyptologist (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Nickolette Scott, an archaeologist (created by Val Davis);

Penny Spring, an anthropologist (created by Margot Arnold);

Dr. Thorpe, an archaeologist (created by M.K. Shuman);

Robin Woodley, an archaeologist (created by Lesley Grant-Adamson).

Victory O'Shea (created by Rett MacPherson).

Gunner Asch (created by Hans Kirst);

Colonel Braxton (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Burke, a soldier-of-fortune (created by Andrew Vachss);

John Caine, a former Navy SEAL (created by Charles Knief);

Captain Jack Carter (created by Jack Higgins);

Lewis Cole, retired Department of Defense official (created by Brendan Dubois);

Captain Jeremy Cork, a Revolutionary War era detective (created by S.S. Rafferty);

Captain Cormorant (created by Bertram Atkey);

Ralph Delchard (created by Edward Marston);

Lieutenant Colonel Brennan Duggan (created by Merline Lovelace);

Sir Baldwin Furnshill, a former Templar Knight (created by Michael Jacks);

Tiller Galloway, an ex-Navy Seal (created by David Poyer);

Patrick Gillard (created by Margaret Duffy);

Colonel Gore (created by Lynn Brock);

Major Richard Hannay (created by John Buchan);

Major Maurice Hemyock (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Alan Hepburn, a British soldier captured by Napoleon’s forces (created by John Dickson-Carr);

Matthew Jenkyn (created by P.C. Doherty);

Matsuyama Kaze (created by Dale Furutani);

Thomas Lang, a former officer of the Scots Guards (created by Hugh Laurie);

Tory Lennox, Coast Guard Lieutenant (created by Tony Gibbs);

Colonel March (created by John Dickson Carr);

Major Milo March (created by M.E. Chaber);

Adam McCleet, a former Marine (created by Rick Hanson);

Brigadier Dougal Munro [Ireland] (created by Jack Higgins)

Geoffrey Peace, a naval officer [British] (created by Geoffrey Jenkins);

Colonel John T. Primrose (created by Leslie Ford);

Colonel Race (created by Agatha Christie);

Shell Scott, a former Marine (created by Richard S. Prather);

Signor Sigismondo (created by Elizabeth Eyre);

Penelope Warren, a former Marine (created by Garrison Allen);

Colonel Wineglass (created by Michael Arlen).

Prince Albert, Prince of Wales (created by Peter Lovesey);

Jane Austen (created by Stephanie Barron);

Henry Parker Britland IV and his wife Sunday (created by Mary Higgins Clark);

Albert Campion (created by Margery Allingham);

Viscount Clymping (created by Val Gielgud);

Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton (created by Kate Kingsbury);

Iris Cooper, a flapper (created by K.K. Beck);

Sir Hugh Corbett (created by P.C. Doherty);

Auguste Didier (created by Amy Myers);

Princess Tatiana (Didier) (created by Amy Myers);

Charles Dornay, Earl of Moriston (created by Annabel Laine);

Prosper Fair, the Duke of Devizes (created by Bertram Atkey);

Louisa Hall (created by Mary Roberts Rinehart);

Sir Richard Herrivell (created by John Bentley);

Sir Bruton Kames (created by Douglas G. Browne);

Sir Henry Marquis (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Sir Henry Merrivale (created by John Dickson Carr);

Lady Molly (created by Baroness Orczy);

Honorable Constance "Hon-Con" Morrison-Burke (created by Joyce Porter);

Melrose Plant (created by Martha Grimes);

Hiram Potter (created by Rae Foley);

Lady Margaret Priam (created by Joyce Christmas);

Colonel Sanderstead (created by J.J. Connington);

Sir Charles Sheridan (created by Robin Paige);

Lord Stefan (created by Mary Monica Pulver);

Cecil Thorold (created by Arnold Bennett);

The Toff--Hon. Richard "Rolly" Rollison (created by John Creasey);

Ludovic Travers (created by Christopher Bush);

Pierpont Tree, the scion of an "old" family (created by Paige Rense);

Philo Vance (created by S.S. Van Dine);

Binky Van de Kamp, a San Francisco transvestite with a large trust fund (created by Orland Outland);

Princess Victoria (created by Bernard Bastable);

Baron Alexander von Reisden (created by Sarah Smith);

Wendover (created by J.J. Connington);

Lord Peter Wimsey (created by Dorothy Sayre);

Prince Zaleski (created by M.P. Shiel).

Winnie O'Wynn (created by Bertram Atkey).

Robert Amiss (created by Ruth Dudley Edwards);

Lily Bard, a housecleaner (created by Charlaine Harris);

Jane Bee, a royal housemaid (created by C.C. Benison);

Benno (created by Elizabeth Eyre);

Ursula Blanchard (created by Fiona Buckley);

Bunter (created by Dorothy Sayers);

Morgan Dewitt (created by Michael Kurland);

Ellie Haskell, a charwoman (created by Dorothy Cannell);

Mrs. Hudson (created by Sydney Hosier);

Mrs. Hepzibah Jeffries (created by Emily Brightwell);

Hilda Johansson, a maid (created by Jeanne M. Dams);

Lugg, a valet (created by Margery Allingham);

Asey Mayo (created by phoebe Atwood Taylor);

Mrs. Norris, the housekeeper for an attorney (created by Dorothy Salisbury Davis);

Polton (created by R. Austin Freeman);

Rosanna Spearman (created by Wilkie Collins);

Blanche White, a cook and housekeeper (created by Barbara Neely).

Robert Amiss, a retired civil servant (created by Ruth Dudley Edwards);

Tom Bethany, a political consultant (created by Jerome Doolittle);

Angie Bramley, a postal worker (created by M. S. Craig);

Henry Parker Britland IV, a former president (created by Mary Higgins Clark);

Sunday Britland, a former first lady and Congresswoman (created by Mary Higgins Clark);

Colette Cahill, a State Department official (created by Margaret Truman);

Winston Churchill ("created" by Sydney Hosier);

Miss Marigold Darwin, a retired civil servant (created by Margaret Yorke);

Jimmy Flannery, Chicago precinct captain and sewer inspector, (created by Robert Campbell);

Benjamin Franklin, diplomat (created by Robert Lee Hall);

Mary Minor `Harry' Harristeen, postmistress (created by Rita Mae Brown);

Leah Hunter, a tax inspector (created by Sarah Lacey);

Benedict Juliard (created by Dick Francis);

Mayor Edward Koch (created by Edward Koch);

Paul Latham, a Congressman (created by Margaret Truman);

Ben Lazenby, an official with the British Council (created by James Melville);

Dick Macrae, a British consul (created by John Dickson Carr);

Madden, a postal inspector (created by Doris Miles Disney);

Richard Michaelson, a diplomat (created by Michael Bowen);

Meredith Mitchell, a British diplomat (created by Ann Granger);

Charlie Palmer, a Congressman (created by Martin L. Gross);

Alex Reynolds, a gay federal employee (created by Fred W. Hunter);

Dan Robak, a state legislator (created by Joe L. Hensley);

Eleanor Roosevelt, the First Lady (created by Elliott Roosevelt);

Benton Safford, Ohio Congressman (created by Emma Lathen);

Cliff Summers, a former government inspector (created by Roger Ormerod);

Kate Verdi, a State Department official (created by Stephen Kimball);

Bea Wentworth, a state senator (created by Richard Forrest);

Murray Whelan, a political advisor (created by Shane Maloney);

Wilson, on staff on the American consulate in Argentina (created by Robert L. Fish).

Nell Bray, a suffragette (created by Gillian Linscott);

Esther Sommers Carter, the wife of an agricultural economist for the United Nations (created by Julian Rathbone).

Ben Abbott, a former Wall Street financier (created by Justin Scott);

Beaumont, an advertising executive (created by Peter Barthelme);

John Bryant, a businessman (created by Richard Grayson);

Timothy Cone, a private investigator specializing in Wall Street cases (created by Lawrence Sanders);

Fred Dansk, a financial consultant (created by Fred Yorg);

Kit DeLeeuw, a former Wall Street trader (created by Jon Katz);

James "Dr. Risk" Denny, a risk expert (created by Bob Berger);

Burke Devore, a manager of a paper company (created by Donald E. Westlake);

Frank Douglas, a CPA (created by Edna Buchanan);

Fiora, an investment banker (created by A.E. Maxwell);

Eve Fitzsimmons, an advertising executive (created by Mary McMullen);

Ev Franklin, an executive in an advertising firm (created by Frank Orenstein);

Reuben Frost, a former lawyer on Wall Street (created by Haughton Murphy);

Theresa Galloway, a personnel manager (created by Terris McMahon Grimes);

Simona Griffo, an art buyer for an advertising agency (created by Camilla T. Crespi);

Paul Harris, Scottish manufacturer of heavy equipment based in Singapore (created by Gavin Black);

Amanda Hazard, a C.P.A. (created by Connie Federsen);

Theodore Hubbert, a retired Wall Street executive (created by Gallagher Gray);

Virginia Kelly, an investment advisor (created by Nikki Baker);

Michael Ketchum, the co-owner of an advertising agency (created by Ed Gorman);

Sara Klein, the wife of a "trader" accused of fraud (created by T.C. Black);

Jack Lynch, a public-relations expert (created by Steven Womack);

Jane McBride, a finance director (created by Susan Froetschel);

Donald McCarry, a stockbroker on Wall Street (created by John C. Boland);

Briege O'Niell, a banker (created by Sheila Barrett);

Charlotte "Charlie" Parker, a C.P.A. (created by Connie Shelton);

Agatha Raisin, a retired advertising executive (created by M.C. Beaton);

Maggie Sepulveda, an investment banker (created by Tony Chiu);

Peter Cutler Sergeant II, a public relations expert (created by Edgar Box);

Sabina Shaw, a management consultant (created by Marnie Schulenburg);

Barbara Simons, a public relations expert (created by Carole Epstein);

Tim Simpson, a banker and financial consultant (created by John Malcolm);

Xenia Smith, a Wall Street "headhunter" (created by Annette Meyers);

Wilson Squire, a currency trader (created by Robert Girardi);

Teal Stewart, a certified public accountant (created by J. Dayne Lamb);

Bert Swain, a public relations expert (created by Paul Nathan);

Sydney Teague, the owner of an advertising agency (created by Anne Underwood Grant);

John Putnam Thatcher, a banking executive (created by Emma Lathen);

Iris Thorne, an investment counselor (created by Dianne G. Pugh);

Mark Treasure, a banker (created by David Williams);

Jean Tregar, a corporate headhunter (created by Ellen Godfrey);

Betty Trenka, a businesswoman (created by Joyce Christmas);

Jacobia Triptree, a financial advisor, formerly to the underworld (created by Sarah Graves);

Catherine Velis, a young manager (created by Katherine Neville);

Vinther, an Danish business executive (created by Anders Bodelsen);

John Waltz, a university recruiter (created by Claire McCormick);

Leslie Wetson, a Wall Street "headhunter" (created by Annette Meyers).

Wentworth Cabot, a personal secretary (created by Peter J. Heck);

Guthrie, a personal secretary (created by Quinn Fawcett);

Maggie Hill (created by Melodie Johnson Howe);

Penny Lake, secretary to psychologist Wade Anthony (created by Eric Heath);

Dany Lango (created by Sebastien Japrisot);

Mary Russell, an apprentice to Sherlock Holmes (created by Laurie R. King);

Miri Winter, a secretary (created by David Benioff).

Peter Bartholomew, a self-employed doer of odd jobs (created by Sally Gunning);

Marcus Clay, the proprietor of a record store, and Dimitri Karras, one of his employees, who has a cocaine habit (created by George P. Pelecanos);

Blaise Cory, a boutique owner (created by Joan Van Every Frost);

John Deal, a building contractor (created by Les Standiford);

Mandy Dyer, operator of a dry cleaners (created by Dolores Johnson);

Eve Elliott, a realtor (created by Barbara Lee);

Alex Glauberman, the owner of an auto repair shop (created by Dick Cluster);

Celia Grant, the owner of a nursery and gardening service (created by John Sherwood);

Flora Hutchins, the owner of the Silver Tea Pot Shoppe (created by Dorothy Cannell);

Bonnie Indermill, an employee at Creative Financial Ventures (created by Carole Berry);

Kate Jasper, gag store owner (created by Jaqueline Girdner);

Fremont Jones, operator of a typewriting service (created by Dianne Day);

Texana Jones, the owner of a trading post (created by Allana Martin);

Neeve Kearney, a boutique owner (created by Mary Higgins Clark);

Wynsome "Wyn" Lewis, a real estate attorney (created by David A. Kaufelt);

Robin Light, a pet store owner (created by Barbara Block);

Peter Markin, the owner of a toy store (created by Neville Steed);

Claudia Miller, a building contractor (created by Marilyn Wallace);

Josie Pigeon, a building contractor (created by Valerie Wolzien);

Charles Pol, the owner of a lingerie shop (created by Alan Williams);

Schuyler Ridgway, a realtor (created by Tierney McClellan);

Robert Simmons, a retied business consultant (created by Robert R. Gillespie);

Matthew Stock, a clothier (created by Leonard Tourney).

Aurora Teagarden, a realtor (created by Charlaine Harris).

Tomas Wong (created by Paco Ignacio Taibo II).

Barbers, Hairdressers, and Hair Stylists:

Claire Claiborne (created by Sophie Dunbar);

Stan Kraychik (created by Grant Michaels).

Custodial and Maintenance Workers:

Summer McAfee, the operator of a janitorial service (created by Karen Robards);

Dana Oakley, a building "super" (created by Ellen Emerson White);

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

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

Fred Vickery, a retired buildings and grounds supervisor (created Sherry Lewis).

Handymen:

Pete Bartholomew (created by Sally Gunning).

Meter Readers:

Veejay Haskell (created by Susan Dunlap).

Pest Control:

Bob Dillon (created by Bill Fitzhugh).

Salespersons:

Montague Egg, a spirits and wine salesman (created by Dorothy Sayers);

Max Farne, a yacht salesman (created by Richard Butler);

Johnny Fletcher, a book salesman (created by Frank Gruber);

Roger the Chapman, a peddler in an English historical series (created by Kate Sedley).

Sign Painters:

Carl Wilcox (created by Harold Adams).

Transportation: Bus and Cab Drivers:

Fitzroy Maclean Angel, a cab driver [Great Britain] (created by Mike Ripley);

Luis Balam, the operator of a tour service (created by Gary Alexander);

Carlotta Carlyle, a part-time cab driver (created by Linda Barnes);

Ben Henry, a part-time cab driver (created by Mike Weiss);

Simon "Red Diamond" Jaffa, a cab driver (created by Mark Schorr).

Transportation: Airline, Railway, and Ship Employees:

Travis Banks, a pilot (created by Jonathan Hobbs);

Dan Connell, a pilot (created by Jack Foxx);

Andy MacVeigh, a railway engineer (created by Sue MacVeigh).

Transportation: Travel Agents:

Stoner MacTavish (created by Sarah Dreher).

Matilda Haycastle, a temp (created by Michele Bailey);

Ingrid Hunter (created by Lynne Murray);

Bonnie Indermill, a temp (created by Carole Berry);

Bert Tatum (created by Beverly Taylor Herald).

Singer Batts (created by Thomas Blanchard Dewey);

Pierre Chambrun, a hotel manager (created by Hugh Pentecost);

Tess Darcy, bed and breakfast owner (created by Jean Hager);

Lark Drummond, a hotel owner (created by Christine Goff);

Judith McMonigle Glynn, bed and breakfast owner (created by Mary Daheim);

Dallas Henry, a motel owner (created by Preston Pairo III);

Sarah Kelling, a boardinghouse owner (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Morton Kingsley, the manager of an aprtment complex (created by J.B. Rivard);

Magsalene La Batarde (created by Roberta Gellis);

Judith McGonigle, an innkeeper (created by Mary Daheim);

Sarah Quilliam (created by Claudia Bishop);

Carol Robbins, bed and breakfast owner (created by Leonard Foglia and David Richards);

Cecily Sinclair (created by Kate Kingsbury);

Stanley Waters (created by Willard Scott and Bill Crider);

Kate Yancy (created by Deborah Adams);

Magdalena Yoder, owner of a Monnonite inn (created by Tamar Myers).

Angelina Amalfi, an often unemployed cook (created by Joanne Pence);

Verity Ames, a restaurant owner (created by Jayne Ann Krentz);

Tory Bauer, a waitress (created by Kathleen Taylor);

Madeline Bean, a caterer (created by Jerrilyn Farmer);

Kate Cavanaugh, a caterer (created by Cathie John);

Auguste Didier, a chef (created by Amy Myers);

Faith Fairchild, a caterer (created by Katherine Hall Page);

Goodwin Harper, a cooking consultant (created by Peter King);

Tom Hickey, a restaurant owner (created by Ken Kuhlken);

Bonnie Indermill, a wedding planner (created by Carole Berry);

Coley Killebrew, a restaurant owner (created by Bill Shoemaker);

Nick and Julia Lambros, cafe owners (created by Judy and Takis Iakovou);

Jane Lawless, a restaurant owner (created by Ellen Hart);

Heaven Lee, a restaurant owner (created by Lou Jane Temple);

Darina Lisle, a caterer (created by Janet Laurence);

Neil Marshall, a part-time chef (created by Tim Hemlin);

Monsieur Aristide Pamplemousse, a gourmet restaurant inspector (created by Michael Bond);

Eugenia Potter, a chef (created by Nancy Pickard);

Jonas Quarrel, a dishwasher (created by Jayne Ann Krentz);

Meg Quilliam, a chef (created by Claudia Bishop);

Goldy (Bear) Schultz, a caterer (created by Dianne Mott Davidson);

Hannah Swensen (created by Joanne Fluke).

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

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

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

Goodwin Harper, a cooking consultant (created by Peter King);

Monsieur Aristide Pamplemousse, a gourmet restaurant inspector (created by Michael Bond);

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

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

Nicholas Chase, a cigar expert (created by Harry Paul Lonsdale).

Mary Alice "Sister" Crane, owner of a country-western bar (created by Anne George);

Tubby Dubonnet (created by Tony Dunbar);

Berkley Jordan, a bar owner (created by Frank C. Strunk);

Clarisse Lovelace (created by Nathan Aldyne);

Les Norton, a bouncer at a nightclub (created by Robert G. Barrett);

Charlie Plato, manager of a country-western dance club (created by Margaret Chittenden);

Laney Samms, a bar owner (created by Carol Schmidt);

Nick Stefanos, a bartender (created by George P. Pelecanos);

Dan Valentine, a bar owner (created by Nathan Aldyne).

Bonn [male prostitute] (created by Jonathan Gash);

Sheila Coates, a taxi dancer (created by Clinton Bestor);

Margo Fortier, a former topless dancer (created by Tony Fennelly);

Sierra Lavotini, an exotic dancer (created by Nancy Bartholomew).

Actors and Actresses:

Tallulah Bankhead ("created" by George Baxt);

Elizabeth Baxter/Mallory Eden (created by Wendy Corsi Staub);

Alan Bernhardt (created by Colin Wilcox);

Victoria Bowering (created by Dorian Yeager);

Nicholas Bracewell (created by Edward Marston);

China Carlyle, a former film actress (created by Paige Rense);

Mark Corrigan, a television trouble-shooter, then actor (created by Mark Corrigan--pseudonym of Norman Lee);

Tessa Crichton (created by Anne Morice);

Tess Davy (created by Robert Richardson);

John Deal (created by Les Standisford);

Trixi Dolan (created by Marian Babson);

Jack Dwyer (created by Ed Gorman);

Estelle Edwards, an elderly former movie star (created by Nancy Baker Jacobs);

Scott Elliott, an unsuccessful aspiring actor (created by Terence Faherty);

Philip Fletcher (created by Simon Shaw);

Charlotte Graham (created by Stefanie Matteson);

Stanley Hastings (created by Parnell Hall);

Helen Hayes ("created" by Helen Hayes and Thomas Chastain);

Zack Hunter, television star (created by Margaret Chittenden);

Kelly Ingram (created by Barbara Paul);

Helen Johnson, a retired actress (created by Eileen Dewhurst);

Drury Lane, a former Shakespearean actor (created by Barnaby Ross);

Natasha Lawrence (created by Sally Beauman);

Sir Abercrombie "Filthy" Lewker, an actor and theater-company manager, Shakespearean scholar, and mountain-climbing enthusiast (created by Glyn Carr);

Annie McGrogan (created by Gillian Farrell);

Bridget Mooney (created by P.M. Carlson);

Alice Nestleton, a struggling American actress (created by Lydia Adamson);

Dana Oakley (created by Ellen Emerson White);

Jocelyn O'Roarke (created by Jane Dentinger);

Charles Paris, a melancholic, luckless British stage actor (created by Simon Brett);

Alan Russell, an Irish actor-manager (created by Nigel Fitzgerald);

George Sanders (created by George Sanders);

John Saumarez, an actor-manager (created by Clemence Dane);

Mark Savage, a former film star (created by Laurence Payne);

Saxon (created by Les Roberts);

Evangeline Sinclair, a former silent film star (created by Marian Babson);

Michael Spraggue (created by Linda Barnes);

Sally Tepper, an unemployed actress (created by Frank King);

Charlie Willis, a former policeman who played a policeman on television (created by Lee Goldberg).

Stuntmen, Technicians, and Movie Extras:

Jason Cordry, a former movie extra (created by James O'Hanlon);

Pat Cordry, a former movie extra (created by James O'Hanlon);

Spike Halleck, a sound-effects specialist (created by David Lorne);

Matt Walker, a film editor (created by Michael Serrian).

Comedians:

Steve Allen (created by Steve Allen);

Groucho Marx (created by Ron Goulart);

Kimmey Kruse (created by Susan Rogers Cooper).

Musicians, Singers and Songwriters:

Fitzroy Maclean Angel, a trumpet player [Great Britain] (created by Mike Ripley);

Byron Bluford, an Elvis impersonator (created by William McCranor Henderson);

Enrico Caruso ("created" by Barbara Paul);

Chops, a jazz musician (created by William Ellis Oglesby);

Jane Da Silva, a lounge singer (created by K.K. Beck);

Juliana Fall, a pianist (created by Anne Harrell);

Bunty Felse, a "retired" opera singer (created by Ellis Peters);

Mal Foley, a jazz pianist (created by David Walker);

Kinky Friedman, singer in the Texas Jewboys (created by Kinky Friedman);

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

Perdita Halley, a pianist (created by Sarah Smith);

Nanette Hayes, a street saxophonist (created by Charlotte Carter);

Evan Horne, a jazz musician (created by Bill Moody);

Benjamin January, a musician (created by Barbara Hambly);

Chris Klick, an unsuccessful songwriter (created by Wendell McCall);

Tony Kozol, a rhythm guitarist in a country-western band (created by J.R. Ripley);

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (created by Bernard Bastable);

Maggie Rome (created by Lucille Kallen);

Joan Spencer, a viola player (created by Sara Hoskinson Frommer);

Shelby Kay Tate, a singer/songwriter (created by Sarah Shankman).

Dancers:

Lindy Haggerty, a former dancer (created by Shelley Freydont).

Theatrical Producers, Directors, and Managers:

Alan Bernhardt (created by Colin Wilcox);

Nicholas Bracewell (created by Edward Marston);

Frank Derwent, a film director (created by Jill McGown);

Jeanne Donovan, a director (created by M. R. Henderson);

Peter Duluth (created by Patrick Quentin).

Reuben Frost (created by Haughton Murphy);

Lindy Haggerty (created by Shelley Freydont;

Stoney Winston, a director (created by Jim Stinson).

Others Connected to the Entertainment Industry:

Bill Lennox, a Hollywood studio troubleshoooter (created by Willis Todhunter Ballard);

Ben Spanner, a television sound-man (created by Ronald Goulart);

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

Athletes, Ex-Athletes, Sportsmen, Sportscasters, Sportswriters, Sports Agents, etc.:

Baseball:

Jason Beard (created by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.);

Harvey Blissberg, a former baseball player (created by Richard Rosen);

Peter Boone, a former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (created by William Jaspersohn);

Scott Carpenter, a gay player (created by Mark Richard Zubro);

Ed Gorgon, minor-league umpire (created by Jon Linn Breen);

Alex McKnight, a former minor-league catcher (created by Steve Hamilton);

Robert Miles, a former minor leaguer (created by David H. Everson);

Mark Renzler, a former baseball player (created by Paul Engleman).

Basketball:

Carroll Dorsey, a former basketball star (created by Thomas Lipinski);

Bicycling:

Thomas Black (created by Earl Emerson).

Boating:

Gillian Verdean (created by Tony Gibbs).

Boxing:

Ezell "Easy" Barnes (created by Richard Hilary);

Angel Cantini, a female boxer (created by Robert Eversz);

Miles Jacoby, an ex-middleweight boxer, created by Robert J. Randisi;

Spenser, a former boxer (created by Robert B. Parker).

Cricket:

James Munroe Tallant, a former cricket star [West Indies] (created by Andrew York).

Equestrian Sports:

Charlie Bradshaw, a former security guard at a track (created by Stephen Dobyns);

Jerry Brogan, an announcer at a track (created by Jon Breen);

Kenneth Eagle, a jockey (created by Dick Francis);

Chris England, a jockey (created by Virginia Anderson);

Kit Fielding, a jockey (created by Dick Francis);

Derek Franklin, a former jockey (created by Dick Francis);

Sid Halley, a former jockey (created by Dick Francis);

Coley Killebrew, an ex-jockey (created by Bill Shoemaker);

Ian Pembroke, a jockey (created by Dick Francis);

Robin Vaughan (created by Carolyn Banks);

Anthony Whiting, a horse trainer on the harness-racing circuit (created by Pat Hewitt);

Ted Whyse, an exercise rider (created by Virginia Anderson).

Football:

Brock "The Rock" Callahan, an ex-football player (created by William Campbell Gault);

Frank Hastings, ex-football player (created by Collin Wilcox);

Lincoln Keller, ex-football player (created by Lee Meadows);

Jake Lassiter, a former football player (created by Paul Levine);

Cam MacCardle, a former NFL player (created by Tucker Halleran);

Wyatt Storme, a former NFL player (created by W.L. Ripley);

Moroni Traveler, a former football player (created by Robert Irvine).

Golf:

Roger Bennion (created by Herbert Adams);

Lee Ofsted (created by Charlotte Elkins and Aaron Elkins);

Alan Saxon, a professional golfer (created by Keith Miles);

Inspector Angus Struan (created by Barry Cork).

Running:

Harry Liggett, a distance runner (created by Martina D'Alton);

Soccer:

Ian Chapel, a former soccer goalie (created by Paul Bishop);

Jack Kiley, a former soccer player (created by John Harvey).

Tennis:

Jordan Myles, a retired tennis pro (created by Martina Navratilova and Liz Nickles);

Brad Smith, a tennis pro (created by Jack Bickham).

Weightlifting:

Judy Best (created by Stephen Cook).

Wrestling:

Tom Bethany, a former wrestler (created by Jerome Doolittle);

Eva Wylie (created by Liza Cody).

Sportscasters and Sportswriters:

Marcus Aurelius Burr, a sportswriter (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Frank Lofton, a sportswriter (created by Dominic Stansberry);

Kate Henry, a baseball writer (created by Alison Gordon);

Duffy House, a sportswriter (created by Crabbe Evers);

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

Paddy Moretti, a sportswriter (created by James Sherburne);

John Morris, a sportswriter (created by John Logue);

Ronnie Ratajczak, a sportswriter (created by Frank Deford);

Andy Sussman, a sportscaster (created by Michael J. Katz).

Sports Agents:

Myron Bolitar (created by Harlan Coben).

Miscellaneous:

DiMaggio, a private investigator specializing in sports-related cases (created by Mike Lupica);

Hercules (created by Bertram Atkey);

Jimmy Lujack, a sports bookmaker (created by David Thoreau).

Outdoorsmen:

Divers:

Tiller Galloway (created by David Poyer);

Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell (created by Doug Allyn).

Sport Fishermen:

Max Addams, operator of a trout-fishing lodge (created by David Leitz);

Rigel Lynx, fly-fisherman (created by Thom Elkier);

Calico Jack Walker, the owner of a charter fishing boat (created by Paul Bishop).

Commercial Fishermen:

Breeze Albury (created by Carl Hiassen and Bill Montalbano);

Jeff Jackson, disabled former policeman (created by Philip R. Craig);

Aristotle Plato "Soc" Socarides (created by Paul Kemprecos).

Guides:

Diane Jackman, a guide (created by Mark T. Sullivan);

Jazz Jasper, owner of a photo safari company (created by Karin McQuillan);

Laura Nez, a Navaho guide (created by Lauren Maddison);

Jane Whitefield, a guide (created by Thomas Perry).

Dog-Sledding:

Jessie Arnold (created by ?).

Birdwatchers:

Lark Drummond, a birdwatcher (created by Christine Goff);

George Palmer Jones (created by Ann Cleeves);

Molly Palmer-Jones (created by Ann Cleeves);

Lucy Wayles (created by Lydia Adamson);

Jonathan Wilder (created by Ray Sipherd).

Game and Puzzle Experts:

Alexander Gold, a puzzle expert (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Isabel Mackintosh, a crossword puzzle enthusiast (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Morrison Sharpe, a chess expert (created by Leslie Cargill);

Giles Sullivan, a crossword-puzzle expert (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Cassie Swann, a professional bridge player (created by Susan Moody).

Daredevils and Magicians:

Shifty Anderson, a magician (created by William Murray);

Harry Houdini (created by Walter Sattterthwait);

Merlini (created by Clayton Rawson);

Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters, an amateur magician (created by Carter Dickson);

Emma Passant (created by Charles Mathes);

Lieutenant Price Price (created by Knight Rhoades);

Channing Stuart (created by M. Ruth Myers).

Paranormal Investigators and Debunkers:

Harold "The Great" Botkin, a debunker (created by Jack L. Douglas);

Stephen Drake, a journalist with extra-sensory perception (created by Collin Wilcox);

Carnacki, the "Ghost Finder (created by William Hope);

Elizabeth Chase, a parapsychologist (created by Martha C. Lawrence);

Keith Gerson, an investigator who tracks "non-human" killers (created by Jack Vance);

Saz Martin, a debunker (created by Stella Duffy);

Sam Wescott (created by Helen Chappell).

Ghosts and Spirits:

Aunt Dimity (created by Nancy Atherton).

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

Theresa Fortunato (created by Kate Green);

Julie Hayes (created by Dorothy Salisbury Davis);

Eslin Hillary, a psychic (created by Paula Christopher);

Tom Keatley, a rainmaker (created by Susie Maloney);

Charlotte McCrae (created by Skye Alexander);

Nuala Ann McGrail (created by Andrew Greeley);

Mira Morales (created by T.J. MacGregor);

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

Stella the Stargazer (created by Christine T. Jorgensen).

Carnival Workers and Circus Performers:

Robert "Mongo" Fredrickson (created by George Chesbro);

Uncle Ambrose (created by Fredric Brown).

Gamblers:

Harvey Ace (created by Merle Horwitz);

Jimmy Lujack, a sports bookmaker (created by David Thoreau);

Bill Parmalee (created by Percival Wilde).

Salvage Experts:

Emma Chizzit, a retired salvage expert (created by Mary Bowen Hall);

John Rodrigue, a salvager (created by Ken Grissom).

Gem or Gold Miners:

Dimity Gay (created by Bertram Atkey).

Jewelers:

Richard Hagen, a diamond dealer (created by J. Robert Janes);

Jefferson Horse, a Navajo jewlry designer (created by Claire McCormick);

Romney Pringle, a thief posing as a literary agent, has accumulated a large collection of antique gems (created by Clifford Ashdown);

Riley, a jewelry designer (created by Barbara Michaels);

Old Ludwig Telfen, the "King of the Lapidaries (created by Frederick Irving Anderson);

Meg Venturi, the owner of a jewlry store (created by Barbara Michaels).

Clothiers, Fashion Designers, and Fashion Models:

Lillian Hubbert, a retired fashion expert (created by Gallagher Gray);

Danika Hughes, a fabric designer (created by Elsie Lee);

Summer McAfee, a former model (created by Karen Robards);

Dallas O’Connor, a fashion stylist (created by Chloe Green);

Geri Tyrrel, a fashion model (created by Jane Ashford);

Susanna Van Dusen, a former model (created by Hilary Norman).

Home Crafts and Decoration:

Queenie Bean, a quilter (created by Sandra Dallas);

Benni Harper, a quilter (created by Earlene Fowler);

Ellie Haskell, an interior decorator (created by Dorothy Cannell);

Jason Lynx, an interior decorator (created by A.J. Orde).

Clock Experts:

Dr. Hook (created by Eric Bruton).

Dealers in and Experts on Antiques:

Jonathan Argyll (created by Iain Pears);

Dr. David Audley (created by Anthony Price);

Matthew Coll (created by Roy H. Lewis);

Jeffrey Dean, a rare-book dealer (created by Wayne Warga);

Doran Fairweather, an antiques dealer (created by Mollie Hardwick);

Roman Grey (created by Martin Cruz Smith);

Jenny Heath (created by Alison Tyler);

Essington Holt, an expert in art forgeries (created by Robert Wallace);

Amelia Jones, the owner of an antiques shop (created by Dorothy Gilman);

Lovejoy (created by Jonathan Gash);

Jason Lynx (created by A.J. Orde);

John "The Baron"/"The Blue Mask" Mannering, a reformed gentleman thief (created by Anthony Morton);

Peter Markin, a collector of antique toys (created by Neville Steed);

Lara McClintock (created by Lyn Hamilton);

Annie O’Hara (created by Ann Campbell);

Molly O'Hara (created by Charles Mathes);

Jack Oxby, a police detective specializing in art forgery (created by Thomas Swan);

Amelia Peabody (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Charles Ramsay (created by William Ardin);

Emma Rhodes, a "private resolver" (created by Cynthia Smith);

Tom Ripley (created by Patricia Highsmith);

Henry Scruggs, an administrator at the Smithsonian (created by Richard T. Conroy);

Rei Shimura (created by Sujata Massey);

Miss Silver, an expert on security for collections (created by Patricia Wentworth);

Tim Simpson, a specialist in art investments (created by John Malcolm);

Matthew Sinclair (created by Tony Fennelly);

Abigail Timberlake (created by Tamar Myers).

Art Dealers, Art Experts, and Museum Personnel:

Jonathan Argyll (created by Iain Pears);

Kate Austen (created by Jonnie Jacobs);

Max Bittersohn, an expert on art security (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Hildebert Braunkopf, an art dealer (created by Michael Innes);

Olivia Cartwright, a acquisitions specialist for a museum (created by Thomas Hoving);

Robert Duran, an expert in art fraud (created by Jerry Kennealy);

Roman Grey (created by Martin Cruz Smith);

Helen Greene, a gallery owner (created by Eliza G.C. Collins);

Benni Harper, folk-art expert (created by Earlene Fowler);

Essington Holt, an art dealer (created by Robert Wallace);

Jane Jeffry, occasional museum consultant (created by Jill Churchill);

Jonas Kalem (created by Thomas Swan);

Jacobs Molnar (created by Peter Clothier);

Chris Norgren, an art curator (created by Aaron Elkins);

Elena Oliverez, a curator (created by Marcia Muller);

Inspector Jack Oxby, an expert on art forgeries (created by Thomas Swan);

Joseph Packer, a former gallery owner (created by Jeffery Deaver);

Andrea Perkins, an art restorer (created by Carolyn Coker);

Kate Roy, an art restorer (created by Caroline Llewellyn);

Tim Simpson, an expert on art investment (created by John Malcolm);

Dee Sleign (created by Ken Follett);

Joanna Stark, an expert in art security (created by Marcia Muller);

Eugenia Swift, a museum curator (created by Jayne Ann Krentz);

Fred Taylor, an art curator (created by Nicholas Kilmer);

Alix Thorssen (created by Lise McClendon);

The Toff (created by John Creasey);

Mark Treasure, an art expert (created by David Williams);

Murray Whelan, an advisor to a Minister of Culture (created by Shane Maloney);

Michael Whiting, a gallery owner (created by Peter Watson);

Persis Willum (created by Clarissa Watson).

Artists:

Painters:

Lady Agatha (Troy) Alleyn (created by Ngaio Marsh);

Canaletto (created by Janet Laurence);

Caroline Canfield (created by Jacqueline Fiedler);

Alexandra Carlson (created by Carol Davis Luce);

Leonardo Da Vinci ("created" by George Herman);

Will Garretson (created by Peter Clothier);

Charles Honeybath, a portrait painter (created by Michael Innes);

Jenny Hunt (created by Susan Trott);

Veil Kendry (created by George Chesbro);

Tina Martinez (created by Cecil Dawkins);

J.J. Mavity (created by Ronald Goulart).

Tish McWhinny (created by Barbara Comfort);

Susan Melville (created by Evelyn E. Smith);

Charlie Priest (created by Stuart Pawson);

Judith Raven (Mrs. John Appleby), especially featured in A Connoisseur's Case (created by Michael Innes);

Reuben (created by Cecil Dawkins);

Alex Reynolds (created by Fred Hunter);

Susan Melville (created by Evelyn Smith);

Carl Strassberger (created by Barbara Erskine);

Philip Trent (created by E.C. Bentley);

Carl Wilcox (created by Harold Adams);

Jonathan Wilder (created by Ray Sipherd).

Sculptors:

T. Moore "Mo" Bowdrew (created by Jake Page);

Maggie Kean (created by Nageeba Davis);

Clare Massinger (created by Nicholas Blake);

Adam McCleet (created by Rick Hanson);

Judith Raven (Appleby) (created by Michael Innes).

Graphic Artists, Animators, Cartoonists, and Illustrators:

Caroline Canfield, a wildlife illustrator (created by Jacqueline Fiedler);

Lucy Freers, an animator (created by Lindsay Marcotta);

Calista Jacobs (created by Kathryn Lasky Knight);

Molly Masters (created by Leslie O'Kane);

Wiley Moss (created by Neal Barrett, Jr.);

H.J. Movitz, a romance-novel cover artist (created by Ron Goulart);

Crystal Perry, an artist specializing in portraits of pets (created by Joan Van Every Frost);

Lucy Ramsdale (created by Hildegarde Dolson);

Alex Reynolds (created by Fred Hunter);

Glenn Webb, a cartoonist (created by William DeAndrea).

Herbalists, Florists, and Gardening Experts:

China Bayles, an herbalist (created by Susan Wittig Albert);

Theo Bloomer, a florist (created by Joan Hadley).

Nora Bonesteel, an herbalist (created by Sharyn McCrumb);

Brother Cadfael, an herbalist (created by Ellis Peters);

Louise Eldridge, an expert on organic gardening (created by Ann Ripley);

Celia Grant, owner of a nursery and gardening service (created by John Sherwood);

Susanna, Lady Appleton, an herbalist (created by Kathy Lynn Emerson);

Heather Tradescant, a gardening expert (created by Barbara Michaels).

Social Clubs:

the Grub-and-Stakers novels, focusing on a gardening club (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

the social club series, featuring Harriet Bushrow (created by Graham Landrum).

Farmers, Ranchers, and Country Folk:

Uncle Abner, West Virginia frontiersman (created by Melville Davisson Post);

Queenie Bean, a farmer’s wife (created by Sandra Dallas);

Atticus Cody, a cattleman (created by Ron Hansen);

Gabriel DuPre, a cattle-brand inspector (created by Peter Bowen);

Benni Harper, a former cowgirl, a quilter, and an expert in folk art (created by Earlene Fowler);

Texana Jones, the owner of a trading post (created by Allana Martin);

Tom Keatley, a rainmaker (created by Susie Maloney);

Shirley McClintock, a rancher (created by B.J. Oliphant);

November Joe, a woodsman (created by Hesketh Prichard);

Eugenia Potter, a chef (created by Nancy Pickard);

Charity Ross, a ranch owner (created by Jack Bickham);

Jeff Tellford, a farmhand (created by Douglas Fisher);

Skyler Whitfield, a resident of a small town (created by Gregory MacDonald);

Charlotte Willett, a Colonial farmer (created by Margaret Miles).

Hobos, Drifters, Vagrants, and the Homeless:

Erasmus, a homeless man (created by Laurie King);

Sarah Jane Hurley, a homeless woman (created by Mary Willis Walker);

Thomas Lang, a former officer of the Scots Guards (created by Hugh Laurie);

Romulus Ledbetter, a homeless man (created by George Dawes Green);

Jan Moro, a homeless "inventor" (created by Michael Lewin);

Ellis Portal, a former judge now a vagrant in Toronto (created by Rosemary Aubert);

Jack Reacher, a drifter (created by Lee Child);

Jack Sawyer (created by Sandra Brown);

John Smith (created by Sherman Alexie).

Recluses and Hermits:

W.T. Halvorsen (created by David Poyer).

Retirees, Widows, Spinsters, and Maiden Aunts:

Trudy Adamson, a widow (created by Reginald Hill);

Robert Amiss, a retired civil servant (created by Ruth Dudley Edwards);

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

Angela Benbow (created by Corinne Holt Sawyer);

Mildred Bennett (created by Susanna Hoffman McShea);

Lucy Bex (created by Sheila Pim);

Margaret Binton, a widow (created by Richard Barth);

Dixie Brown, a resident of a nursing home (created by David Laing Dawson);

Harriet Bushrow (created by Robert Lundrum and Graham Landrum);

Emily Charters (created by Fred Hunter);

Emma Chizzit, a retired salvage expert (created by Mary Bowen Hall);

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

Lewis Cole, retired Department of Defense official (created by Brendan Dubois);

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

James P. "Jim" Dandy, an Elderhostel participant (created by Peter Abresch);

Miss Marigold Darwin, a retired civil servant (created by Margaret Yorke);

Trixie Dolan (created by Marian Babson);

Delilah Doolittle (created by Patricia Guiver);

Estelle Edwards, an elderly former movie star (created by Nancy Baker Jacobs);

Jane Amanda Edwards (created by Charlotte Murray Russell);

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

Clara Gamadge, the widow of a forgery expert (created by Eleanor Boylan);

Celia Grant, a widow (created by John Sherwood);

Gale Grayson (created by Teri Holbrook);

Lillian Hubbert, a retired fashion expert (created by Gallagher Gray);

Theodore Hubbert, a retired Wall Street executive (created by Gallagher Gray);

Sidonie Keene (created by Russell James);

Truman Kicklighter, a retired reporter for UPI (created by Kathy Hogan Trocheck);

Henry Kitts (created by Gerald Hammond);

Mavis Lshley, a widow (created by Robert Nordan);

Dottie Loudermilk (created by Gar Anthony Haywood);

Joe Loudermilk (created by Gar Anthony Haywood);

"Mama" (created by Nora DeLoach);

Jane Marple (created by Agatha Christie;

Dorothy Martin (created by Jeanne M. Dams);

Tish McWhinny, a widow (created by B. Comfort);

Mrs. Melita Pargeter (created by Simon Brett);

Marian Phipps (created by Phyllis Bentley);

Mrs. Pollifax (created by Dorothy Gilman);

Beaulah Pond and Bess Petty (created by Hilda Lawrence);

Carole Seddon, a widow (created by Simon Brett);

Robert Simmons, a retied business consultant (created by Robert R. Gillespie);

Eve Sinclair (created by Marian Babson);

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

Henry Thornton, a resident of a nursing home (created by David Laing Dawson);

Harriet Unwin, a spinster (created by Evelyn Hervey);

Cornelia Van Gorder (created by Mary Roberts Rinehart);

Fred Vickery, a retired buildings and grounds supervisor (created Sherry Lewis);

Biggie Weatherford, a grandmother (created by Nancy Bell);

Charlotte Willett, a young widow (created by Margaret Miles);

Caledonia Wingate (created by Corinne Holt Sawyer);

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

MacLaren Yarborough (created by Patricia Sprinkle).

Housewives/Homemakers:

Kate Austen, a single-mother (created by ?);

Queenie Bean (created by Sandra Dallas);

Teri Carmichael, victim of spousal abuse (created by Marilyn Campbell);

Susan Henshaw (created by Valerie Wolzien);

Patricia Anne "Mouse" Hollowell (created by Anne George);

Jane Jeffry (created by Jill Churchill);

Rina Lazarus (created by Faye Kellerman);

Rosie Myers (created by Susan Isaacs);

Dee Ramsay (created by Arville Nonweiler);

Anita Servi (created by Irene Marcuse);

Lori Shepherd (created by Nancy Atherton);

Bert Tatum (created by Barbara Taylor McCafferty and Beverly Taylor Herald);

Francesca Wilson (created by Janet Neel).

Nicky Silver, a house-husband (created by Charles Cohen).

Children and Adolescents:

Julie Allen (created by Caroline Gray);

Nelson Chiddenham (created by Bertram Atkey);

Barney Cook (created by Harvey J. O'Higgins);

Serendipity Dahlquist, a Los Angeles teenager (created by Ed Lochte);

Nancy Drew (created by Carolyn Keene);

the Hardy Boys (created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate);

Ed Hunter, a Chicago teenager (created by Fredric Brown);

Elizabeth Lamb (created by B.J. Morison);

Lewis Little, a thirteen-year-old (created by Rose Tremain);

Priggley (created by Leo Bruce);

Tinker (created by Harry Blyth);

J.R. Weatherford (created by Nancy Bell).

Couples:

Jean and Pat Abbott (created by Frances Crane);

Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows (created by Steve Allen);

Tommy and Tupence Beresford (created by Agatha Christie);

Max and Sarah (Kelling) Bittersohn (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Henry Parker Britland IV and his wife Sunday (created by Mary Higgins Clark);

Dagobert and Jane Brown (created by Delano L. Ames);

Nick and Nora Charles (created by Dashiell Hammett);

Claire and Dan Claiborne (created by Sophie Dunbar);

Dermot Coyne and Nuala Ann McGrail (created by Andrew Greeley);

Thomas and Sandrine Curry (created by Michael Bowen);

Peter and Rina Decker (created by Faye Kellerman);

Auguste Didier and Princess Tatiana (Didier) (created by Amy Myers);

Jay and Lark Dodge (created by Sheila Simonson);

Radcliffe and Amelia (Peabody) Emerson (created by Elizabeth Peters);

Alexander and Norma Gold (created by Alexander Resnicow);

Frank Harriman and Irene Kelly (created by Jan Burke);

Ben and Ellie Haskell (created by Dorothy Cannell);

Neil and Ruby (Flagg) Hockaday (created by Thomas Adcock);

Jacob and Helen Horowitz (created by David Delman);

Lillian and Theodore Hubbert (created by Gallagher Gray);

J.W. Jackson and Zee Madieras (created by Philip R. Craig);

Nick and Julia Lambros (created by Judy and Takis Iakovou);

Dottie and Joe Loudermilk (created by Gar Anthony Haywood);

Anne and Jeffrey MacNeil (created by Theodora Du Bois);

Andy and Sue MacVeigh (created by Sue MacVeigh);

Calista and Plato Marley (created by Bill Pomidor);

Anne and Dr. Jeffrey McNeill (created by Theodora DuBois);

Dittany and Osbert Monk (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Jerry and Pam North (created by Richard and Frances Lockridge);

George and Molly Palmer-Jones (created by Ann Cleeves);

Charlotte and Thomas Pitt (Victorian) (created by Anne Perry);

Ben and Carrie Porter (created by Elizabeth Travis);

Helen and Peter Shandy (created by Charlotte MacLeod);

Mac and Annabel Smith (created by Jonnie Jacobs);

Sam and Nicky Titus (created by Eve K. Sandstrom);

Jeet and Robin Vaughn (created by Carolyn Banks);

Kate Ardleigh and Sir Charles Sheridon (created by Robin Paige);

Masey Baldridge and Luke Williamson (created by James D. Brewer);

Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell (created by Laurie R. King);

Elsie Mae Hunt and Tim Mulligan, archaeologists who confront mysteries at sites in many parts of the world (created by Aaron Marc Stein);

Ryan Kincaid and Aline Scott (created by Alison Drake);

Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard (created by Margaret Duffy);

Mrs. Grace Latham and Col. John T. Primrose (created by Leslie Ford);

J.J. Mavity and Ben Spanner (created by Ronald Goulart);

Skeets and Toni (created by Lucy Cores).

Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey (created by Dorothy Sayers).

Jon and Dee Ramsay, a brother-and-sister team (created by Arville Nonweiler).

Father-and-Son Teams:

Ed and Warren Baer (created by Herbert Resnicow);

Sergeant Felse and his son Dominic (created by Edith Pargeter);

Richard and Ellery Queen (created by Ellery Queen).

Families:

Candi and Simone Covington (created by Nora DeLoach);

George, Bunty, and Dominic Felse (created by Ellis Peters);

the Lunghi family, multi-generational private investigation firm (created by Michael Z. Lewin);

the Tonnemans (created by Maan Meyers).

Groups Devoted to Detecting:

The Berkeley Club (created by Peter Antony);

The Catalyst Club (created by George Dyer);

The Crime Club (created by Doris Disney);

The Crimes Circle (created by Anthony Berkeley);

Roag's Syndicate (created by George Davis).

a real-life model in Erle Stanley Gardner's Court of Last Resort.

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