An ingenious literary detective, he soon discovers that the letters were sent to another poet, Christabel LaMotte - whose life is based on Christina Rossetti.

One of the most famous fictional literary detectives attached to the Honolulu Police Department was Charlie Chan.

A literary detective of limited powers might simply gather these kinds of clues and consider his case complete.

He began, he said, with the premise that there would be two literary detectives and that Jane Eyre would be kidnapped.

For literary detectives the Welsh houses of famous writers could be very fertile ground.

It is also, beneath its surface and within its heart, about Joe McGinniss as quester-for-truth, literary detective, salver and healer.

Hazlitt called it 'a musical composition' ... Though literary detectives have uncovered some of its sources, its remains difficult to say what the poem is about.

Given that nearly half of all literary and film detectives are either based on or ripped off from Holmes, he can never really be dismissed as irrelevant.

Spike refers to Buffy as "Nancy Drew," a fictional literary adolescent female detective who was known for her wit and resolve.

Written in the nineteenth century and featuring the first of the great literary detectives . . ." "Get on with it," she ordered.