Detective Quiz

How Well Do You Know Your Detectives?

I'm not a fan of crime novels about rich people who sit around in country mansions screaming "The butler did it!", but I do enjoy the occasional good mystery, particularly if set in my own country with realistic people and plot.  This year I enjoyed Richard Flanagan's The Unknown Terrorist, which is not strictly a "mystery" novel, I suppose.

Anyway, in looking for novels that I might enjoy, I've come across familiar and not-so-familiar authors and been able to compile the following puzzle, which features a list of twenty authors who have each written a series of books about a central character, usually a detective.  Unfortunately for you the "heroes" have been jumbled up!

1.  Can you unjumble the list and match authors with their heroes?

2.  Do you know which of the heroes are NOT detectives (private or otherwise)?

3.  Do you know how many (and which) authors are Australian?

Good Luck!  Feel free to leave comments!

The Authors                                         The "heroes"

           

1.  Arthur Conan Doyle…                    …Maigret

2.  Kerry Greenwood…                        …The Saint

3.  Peter Temple…                               …Hamish MacBeth

4.  Dorothy Sayers…                            …Adam Dalgliesh

5.  Garry Disher…                                …Charlie Chan

6.  Agatha Christie…                            …Father Brown

7.  Arthur Upfield…                             …Raffles

8.  Mickey Spillane…                          …Sherlock Holmes

9.  E W Hornung…                              . . Miss Marple

10. Georges Simenon…                       …Phryne Fisher         

11. Earl Derr Biggers…                       …Dr Thorndike

12. Peter Corris…                                …Lord Peter Wimsey

13. G K Chesterton…                          …Les Norton

14. Jon Cleary…                                  …Murray Whelan

15. Leslie Charteris…                          …Cliff Hardy

16. P D James…                                   …Hal Challis

17. R Austin Freeman…                      …Napoleon Bonaparte

18. Shane Maloney…                          …Jack Irish

19. M C Beaton…                               …Mike Hammer

20. Robert G Barrett…                        …Scobie Malone

NB  For me "hero" in this context (ie central character) is a term that includes "heroine" and makes it redundant.