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The Best Detectives in Modern Crime Fiction
BESTS 
Tags: Capable Detectives
This list is separate from the awesome works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane. That is its own category. I know many others have their faves.
| | Amos Walker in Loren Estleman series |
| | Elvis Cole in Robert Crais series |
| | Dave Robicheau in James Lee Burke series |
| | Matthew Scudder in Lawrence Block series |
| | Harry Bosch in Michael Connelly series |
| | Easy Rawlins in Walter Mosley series |
| | Burke in Andrew Vachss series |
| | John Rebus in Ian Rankin series |
| | Adam Dalgliesh in P.D. James series |
| | Inspector Wexford in Ruth Rendell series |
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