Like many people, fictional sleuths are often owned by dogs or cats, or at least interact with them. And as a dedicated crime fiction fan, you know all of the series and stories that include pets, don't you? Or do you? Take this handy quiz and find out. Match each question to the correct answer. When you've finished, submit your answers to see how well you've done. You can also go through and find out which answers you got correct. Ready? Let's go!
Most people give their pets names, some of them very imaginative. But not Craig Johnson's sleuth. As Sheriff of Absaroka County, Wyoming, he's just not that much into fancy names. So his office dog is called...Dog. Who is Johnson's creation?
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Joe Pickett
Walt Longmire
Joe Leaphorn
Jesse Stone
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Unlike her creator's other sleuth Phryne Fisher, Melbourne baker Corinna Chapman relies on her two cats, whom she calls The Mouse Police, to keep her bakery rodent-free. Who is Corinna's creator?
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Kathryn Fox
Wendy James
Sulari Gentill
Kerry Greenwood
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In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson have to deal with a case that just may involve a phantom hound. What is the setting for most of this novel?
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Dartmoor
Paris
Edinburgh
East Anglia
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Everyone on Commissaire Adamsberg's Paris police team knows very well who runs their office: Snowball the cat. In fact in one novel, Snowball even does a bit of sleuthing. Who is Adamsberg's creator?
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Georges Simenon
Frédérique Molay
Fred Vargas
Martin Walker
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Two very elegant seal-point Siamese cats own journalist James 'Qwill' Qwilleran in the long-running 'Cat Who...' series. Who is the author of that series?
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Dorothy Gilman
Lilian Jackson Braun
Laura Lippman
Carole Nelson Douglas
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Dogs are featured in several of Agatha Christie's stories. In fact, one of them, Hannibal, is even a sleuth-owner! Who shares a home with Hannibal?
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Hercule Poirot
Jane Marple
Parker Pyne
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford
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Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway and her daughter Kate share their home with which of these pets?
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A cat
Two dogs
A finch
Rabbits
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M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth is much more devoted to his dogs Towser and then Lugs than he is to actually doing a lot of police work. Where does he live and work?
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London
Scottish Highlands
Isle of Guernsey
Yorkshire
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You wouldn't think that Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe would have much to do with pets. But a dog named Jet features prominently in the novella Die Like a Dog. Who does the 'legwork' in that story?
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Archie Goodwin
Lily Rowan
Fritz Brenner
Travis McGee
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Robert Crais' Elvis Cole isn't overly sentimental. But he shares his home with a feral cat who only seems to be comfortable with Cole's PI partner. Who is that?