2. Amateur puzzle solver, smarter than anyone else.
Doyle - Sherlock Holmes
Christie - Hercule Poirot
Christie - Miss Marple
Usually has foil.
Dr. Watson for Holmes
Capt. Hastings for Poirot
Any policeman for Miss Marple

3. Some examples Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe
Dashiell Hammet’ts Sam Spade
Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone
Sara Paretsky’s V. I. Warshawski
Walter Mosley’s Easy Rawlins

4. Police Procedural Hero is policeman/ woman or other official
Flawed or unusual character trait
Generally follows good police practices
Violates procedures only in interest of justice

5. Modern Police Procedurals
P. D. James’s Adam Dalgleish
The Black Tower
A Taste for Death
Devices and Desires
Original Sin
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta
From Potter’s Field
Cause of Death
Unnatural Exposure
Point of Origin
Tony Hillerman’s Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee
The Blessing Way
Skin Walkers
Coyote Waits
Listening Woman
Colin Dexter’s Inspector Morse
The Way through the Woods
Last Bus to Woodstock
Last Seen Wearing