Detective Debuts and Swansongs
Many detectives appear in more than one novel or story. Here is a list of a few debut and swansong stories:
| Detective | Author | Debut | Swansong |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roderick Alleyn | Ngaio Marsh | A Man Lay Dead | Light Thickens |
| Angel (Angel Investigations) | Joss Whedon and David Greenwalt | City of | Not Fade Away |
| Batman | Bob Kane | Detective Comics #27 | |
| Martin Beck | Sjöwall and Wahlöö | Roseanna | The Terrorists |
| Anita Blake | Laurell K. Hamilton | Guilty Pleasures | |
| Harry Bosch | Michael Connelly | The Black Echo | |
| Father Brown | G. K. Chesterton | "The Blue Cross" | |
| Brother Cadfael | Ellis Peters | A Morbid Taste for Bones | Brother Cadfael's Penance |
| Vincent Calvino | Christopher G. Moore | Spirit House | |
| Albert Campion | Margery Allingham | The Crime at Black Dudley | |
| Elvis Cole | Robert Crais | The Monkey's Raincoat | |
| Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne | David Roberts | Sweet Poison | Sweet Sorrow |
| Jerry Cornelius | Michael Moorcock | The Final Programme | |
| Dr. Phil D'Amato | Paul Levinson | "The Chronology Protection Case" | |
| Harry D'Amour | Clive Barker | "The Last Illusion" | |
| Peter Decker | Faye Kellerman | The Ritual Bath | |
| Alex Delaware | Jonathan Kellerman | When the Bough Breaks | |
| Harry Devlin | Martin Edwards | All the Lonely People | |
| Nancy Drew | Carolyn Keene | The Secret of the Old Clock | |
| Marcus Didius Falco | Lindsey Davis | The Silver Pigs | |
| Erast Fandorin | Boris Akunin | The Winter Queen | |
| Kate Fansler | Carolyn Gold Heilbrun/Amanda Cross | In the Last Analysis | |
| Dr. Gideon Fell | John Dickson Carr | Hag's Nook | Dark of the Moon |
| Sir John Fielding and Jeremy Proctor | Bruce Alexander | Blind Justice | |
| Gordianus the Finder | Steven Saylor | Roman Blood | |
| Mike Hammer | Mickey Spillane | I, the Jury | |
| Heiji Hattori | Gosho Aoyama | Detective Conan | |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet (in Beeton's Christmas Annual) | His Last Bow (see also "The Final Problem") |
| Shin'ichi Kudo / Conan Edogawa | Gosho Aoyama | Detective Conan | |
| Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers | Elizabeth George | A Great Deliverance | |
| Miss Marple | Agatha Christie | The Murder at the Vicarage | Sleeping Murder |
| Travis McGee | John D. MacDonald | The Deep Blue Good-by | The Lonely Silver Rain |
| Sir Henry Merrivale | Carter Dickson | The Plague Court Murders | The Cavalier's Cup |
| Kinsey Millhone | Sue Grafton | 'A' is for Alibi | |
| Inspector Morse | Colin Dexter | Last Bus to Woodstock | Remorseful Day |
| Thursday Next | Jasper Fforde | The Eyre Affair | |
| Stephanie Plum | Janet Evanovich | One for the Money | |
| Hercule Poirot | Agatha Christie | The Mysterious Affair at Styles | Curtain |
| Ellery Queen | Ellery Queen | The Roman Hat Mystery | A Fine and Private Place |
| Jack Reacher | Lee Child | Killing Floor | |
| John Rebus | Ian Rankin | Knots and Crosses | |
| Dave Robicheaux | James Lee Burke | The Neon Rain | |
| Spenser | Robert B. Parker | The Godwulf Manuscript | |
| Philip Trent | E. C. Bentley | Trent's Last Case | Trent Intervenes |
| Kurt Wallander | Henning Mankell | Faceless Killers | |
| V.I. Warshawski | Sara Paretsky | Indemnity Only | |
| Reginald Wexford | Ruth Rendell | From Doon with Death | |
| Lord Peter Wimsey | Dorothy Sayers | Whose Body? | Busman's Honeymoon |
| Nero Wolfe | Rex Stout | Fer-de-Lance | A Family Affair |
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