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Yannick Bisson as William Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries; a detail from the poster for The Littlest Hobo; and Kenneth Cope as Martin Hopkirk in Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
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Five Fictional Investigators With Special Abilities

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Cover of Murder by Memory by Olivia Waite.
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Murder by Memory Sees Author Olivia Waite Confidently Shift Genres

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Colin Farrell in a car in Sugar
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Sugar and the Challenging Art of Genre Hybrids

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Revealing The Undetectables by Courtney Smyth

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Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti Reunite in The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles by Malka Older

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Of Ships and Sapphics: A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

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Mystery-Solving Symbiont From Another World: Needle by Hal Clement

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Eight Works That Blend Mystery and Detective Fiction With Fantasy and Horror

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Elven Detective Thara Celehar Has a New Case in Katherine Addison’s The Grief of Stones

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“Sometimes Bad Guys Make the Best Good Guys”: Revealing Marion Deeds’ Comeuppance Served Cold

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Crack the Case With 5 SFF Detectives

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The Album of Dr Moreau by Daryl Gregory
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Boy Bands and Murder: Revealing The Album of Dr. Moreau by Daryl Gregory

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“You want stories?" Thom Merrilin declaimed. "I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.”

Robert Jordan, The Eye Of The World

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