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Simply put, a mystery writer who solves actual crimes. After all, who better to unravel all the twists and turns of a mystery than someone who creates them for a living? Possibly a result of Write What You Know. In real life, police detectives do sometimes bring in civilian consultants to help bring new perspectives into an investigation. One example of a mystery writer getting involved in an actual case is when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle became concerned that police had pinned the murder of Marion Gilchrist, a rich, old woman on the wrong person. A small-time thief, Oscar Slater, was caught selling a piece of her jewelry soon after her death, and he seemed to be a logical culprit. Doyle thought the case had to be more complicated than a burglary-gone-wrong. He worked on the case and found out that police had hidden evidence that could have implicated her family members. He managed to get Slater out of jail for murder, but the true killer was never identified. Compare Most Writers Are Writers, Interdisciplinary Sleuth. See also Mystery Fiction and Detective Fiction. |
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Temperance Brennan, from Bones. She writes mystery novels, and she also helps solve crime. Although her career as a forensic anthropologist is probably more important to her ability to solve crimes than her alleged skill as a writer. | |
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The Ellery Queen novels were adapted into a television series. | |
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Gabe Webb from The Maze Agency. Well, True Crime Writer to be accurate, but close enough. | |
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In the 1959 film version of The Bat, Cornelia is rewritten as a mystery writer renting the mansion for some inspiration, which she gets in spades. | |
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Parodied in Old Harry's Game, when Satan summons the spirits of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to solve Edith's murder, but they turn out to be completely useless. Dame Agatha suggests her own plots, regardless of their relevance, and Sir Arthur keeps going on about ghosts and fairies. | |
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Reggie becomes this due to the number of murders he helps solve in Where the Bears Are. | |
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Harriet Vane from the Lord Peter Wimsey novels is another example. Her first appearance is as a suspect, after her recent ex is killed by the same method she is researching for a story. | |
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Batman: Kaye Daye, one of the Mystery Analysts of Gotham City. | |
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In Big Driver, Tess decides to use her skills as an investigative writer to find out the reason behind what happened — if she was a random or targeted victim—and, especially if the latter, how best to use that information to her advantage. | |
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McGee on NCIS is a special agent, who wrote a best-selling novel... which he would have preferred his coworkers never knew existed. Once they know, however, it becomes useful; in one episode, he is able to use his fame to get into a club as part of an investigation, something the other agents wouldn't have been able to accomplish. He continues to write additional novels, one of which forms a plot in a different episode where one of his readers takes things a bit too seriously. | |
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Ian Ludlow in the Monk novel Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants has a consulting contract with the LAPD, and turns out to have used his side gig to commit murders which he frames other people for, then writes novels based on them. | |
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Case Closed: The protagonist's father, Yusaku Kudo, is a mystery writer who occasionally steps in to solve mysteries when his son is stumped. | |
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Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote is a little old lady mystery writer who encounters and solves murders wherever she goes. | |
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In The Mad Magician, Alice Prentiss writes murder mysteries. When a murder happens in her own house, she sets out to solve it. She does a very creditable job and contributes at least as much to the solution of the crime as Lt. Bruce. | |
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In Ring of Fear, Wallace calls in Mickey Spillane (playing himself) to investigate the sabotage at the circus because of his fame as a mystery writer. | |
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Lady on a Train: While in a train halted at a station, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder committed in a nearby building. When she goes to the police they think she's read one too many mystery novels. She then enlists popular mystery writer Wayne Morgan to help with her sleuthing. | |
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Paula from The Ex-Mrs. Bradford. Although she's not the best detective and needs the help of her husband, she's pretty good at finding great clues. | |
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BBC Radio show Foul Play pitted three mystery writers to guess who's the murderer in the short skit they presented. | |
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Granted, Conan Doyle had actual forensic training, and he had been a detective and lecturer himself before writing the Sherlock Holmes stories. | |
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Queens of Mystery All three aunts of detective Matilda Stone are mystery writers and amateur sleuths. | |
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