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Detectives

Detectives, private eyes and gumshoes feature in many tales.
This list includes the agencies as well as the individuals.

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J. Sheringham Adair
Alias of Chimp Twist using the cover of the Tilbury Detective Agency Ltd, in a room opposite Tilbury House in London and elsewhere.
Monty Bodkin
An assistant private detective working for Percy Pilbeam (see below).
Reginald Brown and Cyril Delancey
Partners working for the Quick Results Agency in London. (The Purification of Rodney Spelvin)
Connor
With Digby's. (Pigs Have Wings)
Dennis
Employed by Mr Ford in The Eighteen-carat Kid but suborned by Smooth Sam Fisher.
Janice Devereaux
Fictional detective in a thriller being read by Medway in Hot Water.
Daphne Dolby
Proprietor of Eagle Eyes detective agency in London. (Bachelors Anonymous)
Fauntleroy
With Digby's. (Pigs Have Wings)
Samuel Galer
A private detective with Dodson's Private Enquiry Agency of Bishopsgate St., EC., (A Gentleman of Leisure) and/or of Wragge's Detective Agency, Holborn Bars, EC. (The Gem Collector).
Inspector Jarvis
Of Scotland Yard, telephoned in One Touch of Nature.
Mr Jellaby
Investigator with the Argus Enquiry Agency, mentioned in Frozen Assets.
Jones
With the Argus Enquiry Agency. (Summer Lightning)
Detective Inspector Mould
Character in the book Strychnine in the Soup by Horatio Slingsby (not a 'real' person). (Strychnine in the Soup)
Adrian Mulliner
With Widgery and Boon, Investigators of Albemarle Street, London. (The Smile That Wins)
Murphy
With the Argus Enquiry Agency. (Summer Lightning)
North
With Digby's. (Pigs Have Wings)
Elliott Oakes
A junior with Paul Snyder's Detective Agency. (Death at the Excelsior)
Cyril Pemberton
A detective of the 'heavy' variety, with the Eagle Eyes agency of London in Bachelors Anonymous.
Percy Pilbeam
Private detective and proprietor of the Argus Detective Agency.
Claude Pott
Private investigator.
Miss Kate Amelia Putnam
Employed by Mrs Gedge in Hot Water. Works for the James B. Flaherty Detective Agency of New York, offices at 44th Street and 7th Avenue.
Henry Pitfield Rice
Private detective working for Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, Strand, London in Bill the Bloodhound.
Inspector Roberts
A Scotland Yard detective who distrusts evidence. (The Pothunters)
Burdock Rose
A private detective, accompanied by his friend Wotsing. (The Strange Disappearance of Buxton-Smythe and The Adventure of the Split Infinitive).
Simmonds
Private detective working for Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, Strand, London in Bill the Bloodhound.
Susan Simmons
A private detective, worked undercover as a housemaid at Blandings Castle, employed by Rupert Baxter with whom she had worked previously. (Leave it to Psmith)
Paul Snyder
Proprietor of Paul Snyder's Detective Agency in New Oxford Street. (Death at the Excelsior)
Mr Stafford
Proprietor of Stafford's International Investigation Bureau, Strand, London. (Bill the Bloodhound).
Maudie Stubbs
Owner of Digby's Day and Night Detectives.
Denman Sturgis
A private detective from Chicago, last seen in Monte Carlo. (Rallying Round Old George)
Mr Sturgis
Proprietor of the International Detective Agency of New York. (Piccadilly Jim)
Miss Trimble
Employee of the International Detective Agency of New York. She has speech like a machine gun, through clenched teeth. A socialist, with no time for the rich or their grand manner. Also a suffragist and hates men. Hired by Nesta Pett to keep an eye on a member of staff and a guest. She poses as a parlourmaid.
Unnamed
1. Employee of Wragge's Detective Agency, Holborn Bars, EC, posing as Sir Thomas Blunt's valet. (A Gentleman of Leisure)
2. Samuel Galer, posing as a friend of John McEachern. (The Gem Collector)
3. An unnamed operative of the Quick Results Agency posed as a caddie when employed by Gladstone Botts in High Stakes. See also Brown and Delancey above.
Wraxhall Detective Agency
Employed by Sir George Pyke to find Felicia Hammond in Bill the Conqueror, but failed.

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