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Holmes, Poirot, and clues.

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  1. 01At what address does Sherlock Holmes live?
  2. 02Who created Sherlock Holmes?
  3. 03What is the name of Holmes's loyal friend and chronicler?
  4. 04Agatha Christie's fastidious Belgian detective is named what?
  5. 05In Murder on the Orient Express, what stops the train?
  6. 06Nancy Drew is a famous what?
  7. 07Miss Marple lives in which fictional English village?
  8. 08Who is Holmes's archenemy, called the Napoleon of crime?
  9. 09What is the title of the first Sherlock Holmes novel?
  10. 10Poirot credits his success to using his 'little grey' what?
  11. 11Which Agatha Christie novel lures ten strangers to an island, where they are murdered in a sequence matching the lines of a nursery rhyme?
  12. 12Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled private eye is named what?
  13. 13Sam Spade hunts a priceless jeweled statuette in which novel?
  14. 14Edgar Allan Poe's detective, often called the first in fiction, is named what?
  15. 15Which Agatha Christie play has been running in London since 1952?
  16. 16Holmes appeared to fall to his death grappling with Moriarty at which falls?
  17. 17Dorothy L. Sayers created which aristocratic amateur sleuth?
  18. 18Georges Simenon wrote about which pipe-smoking Paris police commissaire?

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