Complete Clue List
Across
1. Oily secretion creating fingerprints
4. First name of Georges Simenon's Maigret
7. Eggs (Lat.)
8. Publisher of paperback fiction; also a dog breed
9. Samaresh Basu's teenage detective, sounds like a popular search engine
10. Body language of an unsuccessful detective
11. Fictional character in 1970s franchise with theme music by Isaac Hayes
14. Useful quality in a detective?
17. Message board for psychic detectives?
18. First name of Dorothy L. Sayers' titled detective
20. Hilda Stahl's detective series "____ Ainslie"
23. Good detectives investigate all the ____ and outs of a case
24. A detective needs plenty of these
25. One of the five senses helps detect this
26. Self-importance found in many fictional detectives
27. Initially away from the center of a mystery: on the ____
28. Problems with this body part makes 25A detection difficult
Down
1. Amelia ____, character in Jeffery Deaver's "The Bone Collector"
2. Léo Malet's Nestor ____ or a country now called Myanmar
3. Cream to use before and after wearing latex gloves
4. Anurag Basu's eponymous young detective (5,6)
5. Company emblems
6. Break apart
12. Shade of colour, noticed by the observant detective
13. Professor Moriarty to Sherlock Holmes
15. Dashiell Hammett's ____ Spade
16. Author Lynne Hinton's "Sister ____, Private Eye"
18. S. S. Van Dine's ____ Vance, amateur detective
19. E. C. Bentley's gentleman sleuth "Philip ____"
21. G. K. Chesterton's Father ____
22. Fraudulent schemes uncovered by detectives