Detectiv
Discover the renowned detectives who have captivated audiences with their sharp minds and relentless investigations. Explore the famous individuals in the "Detective" category, including legendary fictional characters and real-life crime fighters.

John Green
USA
USACrime writer

Stella Duffy
Great Britain
Great BritainContemporary English writer and actress

Ellen Wood
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, author of detective stories and novels

Harlan Coben
USA
USAAmerican writer

Jeffery Deaver
USA
USAAmerican writer

Nikolay Dalekiy
Ukrainian and Russian Soviet writer and screenwriter, author of detective books

Michael Connelly
USA
USAPopular detective writer

Clive Cussler
USA
USAAmerican writer

Liz Renay
USA
USAAmerican writer and actress

Inna Bachinskaya
Ukraine
UkraineWriter

Giorgio Faletti
Italy
ItalyItalian writer

Fridrih Neznansky
Belarus
BelarusLawyer, publicist, writer

Joanna Chmielewska
Poland
PolandWriter of ironic detective stories

Arkadiy Adamov
Russian Soviet writer, author of detective stories.

Jo Nesbo
Norway
NorwayNorwegian writer and musician. Winner of several literary awards.

James Ellroy
USA
USAAmerican mystery writer

Sidney Sheldon
USA
USAA classic of the detective genre, the richest writer in the world

Mickey Spillane
USA
USAWriter, author of books about private detective Mike Hammer

Elizabeth George
USA
USAAmerican detective writer

Edward Bunker
USA
USAAmerican writer, author of a number of detective stories, screenwriter and actor, criminal

Gunter Gorlich
Germany
GermanyGerman (East German) writer.

Friedrich Ave-Lallema
Germany
GermanyGerman criminologist and writer.

Evan Hanter
USA
USAAmerican writer

Valeriy Gitin
Ukraine
UkraineUkrainian and Russian writer, psychologist

Norman Colin Dexter
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish novelist, author of detective stories

Michael Innes
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, biographer, crime writer

John Carr
USA
USAAmerican writer, author of detective novels.

Freeman Wills Crofts
Great Britain
Great BritainAnglo-Irish detective writer.

Georges Simenon
Belgium
BelgiumFrench writer

Tetsuya Ayukawa
Japan
JapanJapanese literary critic and writer

Anthony Berkeley
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer, author of psychological detective stories

Horst Mehler
USA
USAWriter

Simon Kernick
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Harry Kemelman
USA
USAAmerican writer, master of ironic detective fiction

Susan Isaacs
USA
USAAmerican writer and screenwriter.

Sergey Kulakov
Belarus
BelarusBelarusian writer and screenwriter

Arnaldur Indridason
Iceland
IcelandIcelandic crime writer

Edgar Poe
USA
USAWriter

Raymond Chandler
USA
USAAmerican writer and screenwriter

Jayms Kane
USA
USAAmerican writer (“The Postman Always Rings Twice”).

James Chase
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish detective writer

Anthony Price
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer of spy thrillers

Dashiell Hammett
USA
USAAmerican writer, founder of the hardboiled detective story

Friedrich Glauser
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss writer, wrote in German.

Carter Brown
Australia
AustraliaDetective writer

Dick Francis
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish writer

Ross Thomas
USA
USAWriter

Ellery Queen
A creative pseudonym of two American writers of Jewish origin

Vlada Olhovskaya
Russia
RussiaWriter

Marshall Jevons
USA
USAFictitious name of mystery writer