List of fictional amateur detectives

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This list consists of fictional amateur detectives:

Detective	Creator	Debut
Father Brown	G. K. Chesterton	the Innocence of Father Brown (1911)
Roger Bannion	Herbert Adams	Death off the Fairyway (1936)
Vicky Bliss	Elizabeth Peters	Borrower of the Night (1973)
Albert Campion	Margery Allingham	the Crime at Black Dudley (1929)
Dr. Richmond Cannington	William Hanson	Cannington Inquires: Point of the Matter (2005)
C. Auguste Dupin	Edgar Allan Poe	"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841)
Amelia Peabody Emerson	Elizabeth Peters	Crocodile on the Sandbank (1975)
Kate Fansler	Amanda Cross	In the Last Analysis (1964)
Dr. Gideon Fell	John Dickson Carr	Hag's Nook (1932)
Jessica Fletcher	Peter S. Fischer, Richard Levinson & William Link	Murder, She Wrote (TV) (1984)
Kinky Friedman	Kinky Friedman	Greenwich Killing Time (1986)
Frank and Joe Hardy	Franklin W. Dixon	the Tower Treasure (1927)
Jannie Jansen	Janwillem van de Wetering	"Friends" (1988)
Jacqueline Kirby	Elizabeth Peters	the Seventh Sinner (1972)
Shin'ichi "Jimmy" Kudo	Gosho Aoyama	Case Closed (1994)
Hajime Kindaichi	Yozaburo Kanari & Fumiya Sato	Kindaichi Case Files (1997)
Miss Marple	Agatha Christie	the Murder at the Vicarage (1930)
Perry Mason	Erle Stanley Gardner	the Cast of the Sulky Girl (1933)
The Great Merlini	Clayton Rawson	Death from a Top Hat (1938)
Sir Henry Merrivale	Carter Dickson	the Plague Court Murders (1934)
Special Agent Pendergast	Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child	the Relic (1994)
Drury Lane	Ellery Queen	the Tragedy of X (1932)
Jim Qwilleran	Lilian Jackson Braun	the Cat Who Could Read Backwards (1966)
Easy Rawlins	Walter Mosley	Devil in a Blue Dress (1990)
Roger Sheringham	Anthony Berkeley	the Layton Court Mystery (1925)
Rabbi David Small	Harry Kemelman	Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (1964)
Simon "the Saint" Templar	Leslie Charteris	Meet the Tiger! (1928)
Paul Temple	Francis Durbridge	Send for Paul Temple (1938)
Philip Trent	E. C. Bentley	Trent's Last Case (1913)
Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen	Jacques Futrelle	the Case of the Golden Plate (1906)
Lord Peter Wimsey	Dorothy L. Sayers	Whose Body? (1923)
Philo Vance	S.S. Van Dine	the Benson Murder Case (1926)