Amateur puzzle solver, smarter than anyone else. Doyle - Sherlock Holmes Christie - Hercule Poirot

2. Amateur puzzle solver, smarter than anyone else. • Doyle - Sherlock Holmes • Christie - Hercule Poirot • Christie - Miss Marple • Usually has foil. • Dr. Watson for Holmes • Capt. Hastings for Poirot • Any policeman for Miss Marple

3. Some examples • Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe • Dashiell Hammet’ts Sam Spade • Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone • Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski • Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins

4. Police Procedural • Hero is policeman/ woman or other official • Flawed or unusual character trait • Generally follows good police practices • Violates procedures only in interest of justice

5. Modern Police Procedurals • P. D. James’s Adam Dalgleish • The Black Tower • A Taste for Death • Devices and Desires • Original Sin • Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta • From Potter’s Field • Cause of Death • Unnatural Exposure • Point of Origin • Tony Hillerman’s Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee • The Blessing Way • Skin Walkers • Coyote Waits • Listening Woman • Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse • The Way through the Woods • Last Bus to Woodstock • Last Seen Wearing