Detective Fiction - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Agatha Christie. Poirot debuted in The Mysterious Affair at Styles in 1920 and Marple debuted in Sketch magazine before appearing in the novel The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930?
• A2) Sherlock Holmes. The stories appeared as a serial in 1887 and as a book illustrated by his father Charles the following year.
• A3) Nick Carter. The sleuth appeared in over 100 books from the 1890s to the 1950s.
• A4) The Hardy Boys. The brothers have appeared in almost 400 books since 1926.
• A5) Alibi. 'A' Is for Alibi began the alphabetical sequence in 1982, and 'S' Is for Silence was book number nineteen in 2005.
• A6) Encyclopedia Brown. The Donald J. Sobol series began in 1963.
• A7) Mike Hammer. The strong-armed sleuth debuted in I, the Jury in 1947.
• A8) Robert B. Parker. Robert Urich played the Boston-based private detective from 1985 to 1988, a few years removed from his similar role as Dan Tanna in Vega$.
• A9) Charlie Chan. The sleuth debuted in A House Without a Key in 1925.
• A10) Raymond Chandler. The sleuth debuted in The Big Sleep in 1939.
• A11) P.D. James. The Scotland Yard inspector debuted in Cover Her Face in 1962.
• A12) Nero Wolfe. The detective first appeared in Fer-de-Lance in 1934.