1. History of Mystery

2. First true English detective author Wilkie Collins

3. The first woman to write a detective novel Anna Katherine Green

4. The father of the American mystery story Edgar Allen Poe

5. The name of Edgar Allen Poe’s famous detective Auguste Dupin

6. Era of Sherlock Holmes 1870s-1900s

7. Dashielle Hammet’s fictional detective Sam Spade

8. The creator of Mike Hammer Mickey Spillane

9. Gardner’s main detective Perry Mason

10. Agatha Christie’s quirky detective Hercule Piorot

11. The Big Three Agatha Christie, John Dickson Carr, and Ellery Queen

12. The most famous detective Pulp magazine was The Black Mask

13. The “Golden Age” of mystery 1920-1940

14. Sam Spade was immortalized in a 1941 film named The Maltese Falcon

15. Popular mystery radio program of the 40s The Adventures of Ellery Queen

16. Ellery Queen’s fictional detective was Ellery Queen

17. The popular mystery game Clue

18. Two popular children’s mysteries Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, and Boxcar Children

19. The most successful police procedural writer was Ed McBain