Detective Literature Quiz: 20 Multiple Choice Trivia Questions on Famous Detectives
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Detectives are one of the most popular literary genres. Especially when it comes to those created by great masters such as Agatha Christie, Rex Stout, James Headley Chase, Dick Francis and others. We all have our own list of favorite authors.
The Detective Literature Quiz we have prepared for you today consists of 20 interesting questions. If you are a true lover and connoisseur of this genre, you will surely answer each of them correctly. Test your knowledge!
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1. What object disappears from the murdered millionaire's cabin in Agatha Christie's novel Death on the Nile?
A pearl necklace
2. The kernels of what fruit were associated with a mysterious incident in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories?
Orange
3. Which story by Edgar Allan Poe is considered the first detective work in world literature?
Murder in the Rue Morgue
4. What does the heroine of Rex Stout's novel The Red Box die of?
A poisoned candy bar
5. Which Agatha Brush detective novel was her best-selling book?
And Then There Were None
6. Who is the amateur detective in Gilbert Keith Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown series?
A Catholic priest
7. Which book won Michael Connelly the Edgar Allan Poe Award?
The Black Echo.
8. What did the motley ribbon from Arthur Conan Doyle's story of the same name actually turn out to be?
A snake
9. Who investigates the murders in Rex Stout's novel The League of Scared Men?
Niro Wolfe
10. What is the title of the sequel to the novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Headley Chase?
The Flesh of the Orchid
11. In which work of Arthur Conan Doyle does the adventurer Irene Adler appear?
A Scandal in Bohemia
12. What is the name of the detective who appears in Raymond Chandler's works The Big Sleep and The High Window?
Philip Marlowe
13. What is the name of the detective thriller by Tess Gerritsen in which detective Jane Rizzoli first appears?
The Surgeon
14. Wilkie Collins' work that is considered the best detective novel of all time?
The Moonstone.
15. What is the name of Arthur Conan Doyle's novella in which Dr. Watson meets the genius detective Sherlock Holmes?
A Study in Scarlet
16. In which of Agatha Christie's detective novels is murder investigated by Miss Marple?
The Murder at the Vicarage
17. The first detective novel by writer Nayo Marsh in which Inspector Roderick Alleyne appears?
A Man Lay Dead
18. What is Beatrice Bradley, the heroine of Gladys Mitchell's novel Speedy Death, by profession?
Psychoanalyst
19. Earl Stanley Gardner's most popular series of novels features a lawyer named ...
Perry Mason
20. Who helps Hercule Poirot find the serial killer in Agatha Christie's novel The A.B.C. Murders?
Captain Hastings
