1. Robert Crais created his LA New Age detective, Elvis Cole, in the mid-80s. What is the name of Elvis? sometime partner in crime detection? (This guy makes the semi-solitary Elvis look like a social butterfly!) Agamemnon "Aggie" Everson Sal Jacobs Mitch Jeffers Joe Pike

2. In the ?Inspector Morse? series by Colin Dexter Mores's first name is a bit of an enigma. He was, however, given a nickname, which is referred to several times; what is the nickname? Crosswords Samuel Pagan Wagner

3. Patricia Cornwell has had great success with her novels featuring Kay Scarpetta. Kay was the chief medical examiner of the State of Virginia, until she left that position in ?The Last Precinct?. Several years later, Cornwell resumed chronicling Scarpetta?s life in what book? Point of Origin Blow Fly Predator Trace

4. Cadfael, created by Ellis Peters, is one of the earliest of the new generation of historical detectives; he is a monk and an expert on herbs and potions. To which order does Cadfael belong? Benedictine Cistercian Dominican Franciscan

5. Michael Connelly?s police detective, Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch, works out of LAPD. In the 2006 release, ?Echo Park?, Harry is put back on a missing persons case that he failed to solve 13 years earlier. He soon realizes something that horrifies him. What is it? They had had the person responsible in custody a couple of years after the original case was closed, but he got off on a technicality. His partner in the original investigation actually withheld vital evidence that would have solved the case In the original investigation, he and his partner missed a clue that would have proved that the missing person had been murdered?and led to the murderer. The perpetrator had been a senior member of the LAPD, who retired just a few months ago and moved to Mexico?and is now beyond Harry?s reach.

6. The wonderful creation of Jill Staynes and Margaret Storey, Inspector Robert Bone, first appeared in which novel? A Knife at the Opera Body of Opinion Goodbye Nanny Gray Bone Idle

7. Stephen White?s investigative character Alan Gregory is not a cop or a private eye. He holds the same credentials that White himself earned. What?s his line of work? Physician Research scientist Lawyer Psychologist

8. Mike Ripley?s ?Angel? series featuring the itinerant musician, cab driver and ne?er-do-well Fitzroy Maclean Angel and his vicious cat Springsteen is a humorous look at the world of the ?hard-boiled? detective. Angel has given his cab a name; what is it? Beiderbecke Ellington Armstrong Coltrane

9. One of the most elegantly-drawn of all hard cases is Robert B. Parker?s Spenser, the Bostonian ex-cop with a Harvard-educated shrink for a lady love. Parker has been writing Spenser since 1973 and has more than 30 Spenser novels to his credit. Parker in recent years has begun to develop two other crime solving protagonists, Jesse Stone, a cop, and Sunny Randall, a female private eye. What was unusual about the creation of Sunny Randall? She was created to be developed into a movie character. Parker?s wife writes the character, and Parker creates the plots of the Sunny Randall books. All these things are true. Sunny Randall started out as a male character, but Parker?s publishers wanted him to try writing a woman for a change.

10. One of the most intriguing detectives is Sam Vimes, who inhabits Terry Pratchett?s ?Discworld? series and runs the City Watch. Which of these characters is NOT currently a member of the Watch? John Keel Delphine Angua Fred Colon Nobby Nobbs