Baker’s Dozen III

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Real Historical Figures who appear as Literary Detectives or Secret Agents

  1. Groucho Marx - Ron Goulart’s Groucho Marx, Master Detective series
  2. Harry Houdini - Harry Houdini Mysteries by Daniel Stashower
  3. Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  4. John Gower - A Burnable Book
  5. Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Aleister Crowley - Masks of the Illuminati
  6. Eleanor Roosevelt - Elliott Roosevelt’s Eleanor Roosevelt series
  7. Jane Austen - Jane Austen Mysteries series
  8. Edgar Allan Poe - The Pale Blue Eye
  9. Benjamin Franklin - Mason - Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  10. Oscar Wilde - Gyles Brandeth’s Oscar Wilde Mysteries series
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Real Historical Figures who appear as Literary Detectives or Secret Agents

  1. Groucho Marx - Ron Goulart’s Groucho Marx, Master Detective series
  2. Harry Houdini - Harry Houdini Mysteries by Daniel Stashower
  3. Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  4. John Gower - A Burnable Book
  5. Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Aleister Crowley - Masks of the Illuminati
  6. Eleanor Roosevelt - Elliott Roosevelt’s Eleanor Roosevelt series
  7. Jane Austen - Jane Austen Mysteries series
  8. Edgar Allan Poe - The Pale Blue Eye
  9. Benjamin Franklin - Mason - Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  10. Oscar Wilde - Gyles Brandeth’s Oscar Wilde Mysteries series
  11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and J. T. Fields - The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

A psychotic veteran becomes a serial killer in post-Civil War Boston, and the leaders of Boston Brahmin literary high society team up to catch him. Interesting concept, but kind of a dull book IMHO.

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Real Historical Figures who appear as Literary Detectives or Secret Agents

  1. Groucho Marx - Ron Goulart’s Groucho Marx, Master Detective series
  2. Harry Houdini - Harry Houdini Mysteries by Daniel Stashower
  3. Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  4. John Gower - A Burnable Book
  5. Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Aleister Crowley - Masks of the Illuminati
  6. Eleanor Roosevelt - Elliott Roosevelt’s Eleanor Roosevelt series
  7. Jane Austen - Jane Austen Mysteries series
  8. Edgar Allan Poe - The Pale Blue Eye
  9. Benjamin Franklin - Mason - Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  10. Oscar Wilde - Gyles Brandeth’s Oscar Wilde Mysteries series
  11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and J. T. Fields - The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
  12. Theodore Roosevelt - The Alienist

I read the book in the 90s and think I enjoyed it but barely remember it now.

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Nitpick: TR’s not a detective or secret agent in the book himself, though - he’s the NYC police commissioner who sets the team to its work.

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Close enough.

One I wanted to use in this thread, but don’t remember the title or the author of the book, was Fidel Castro. In the story a botanist has developed a plant that can grow nearly anyplace and supply all the nutritional value a person needs, and so can solve the hunger problem. Russia and China want to get it to use to control populations; the U.S. wants to suppress it as it would hurt Commerce, but Fidel Castro figures if he can get to the scientist and take him to Cuba, he can see that the plant is produced in large enough numbers to feed the world, guaranteeing him a legacy as a world hero. So, he shaves, changes clothes and gives up cigars, and nobody recognizes him.

It was a good read, but I don’t recall the relevant details to find it again.

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Real Historical Figures who appear as Literary Detectives or Secret Agents

  1. Groucho Marx - Ron Goulart’s Groucho Marx, Master Detective series
  2. Harry Houdini - Harry Houdini Mysteries by Daniel Stashower
  3. Abraham Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
  4. John Gower - A Burnable Book
  5. Albert Einstein, James Joyce, Aleister Crowley - Masks of the Illuminati
  6. Eleanor Roosevelt - Elliott Roosevelt’s Eleanor Roosevelt series
  7. Jane Austen - Jane Austen Mysteries series
  8. Edgar Allan Poe - The Pale Blue Eye
  9. Benjamin Franklin - Mason - Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
  10. Oscar Wilde - Gyles Brandeth’s Oscar Wilde Mysteries series
  11. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell and J. T. Fields - The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
  12. Theodore Roosevelt - The Alienist
  13. Dr. Sigmund Freud - The Seven Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer

Assisting Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John H. Watson, naturally.

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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales

Conan Doyle only ever provided his first initial, not his full name.

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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
  8. Chief of Police Tinkler - Soap

Tinkler was played by Gordon Jump in the first two seasons of the show, then he left to become the owner of WKRP, a radio station in Cincinatti.

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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
  8. Chief of Police Tinkler - Soap
  9. Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
  8. Chief of Police Tinkler - Soap
  9. Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  10. Inspector Japp, Christie’s Poirot novels
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
  8. Chief of Police Tinkler - Soap
  9. Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  10. Inspector Japp, Christie’s Poirot novels
  11. Lt Marty Castillo, Miami Vice

Crockett & Tubbs’ boss, portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
  8. Chief of Police Tinkler - Soap
  9. Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  10. Inspector Japp, Christie’s Poirot novels
  11. Lt Marty Castillo, Miami Vice
  12. Inspector Henderson, The Adventures of Superman
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Police officers who are secondary characters

  1. Insp. G. Lestrade - the Holmes/Watson tales
  2. Lieutenant Con Dolan - Sue Grafton’s alphabet series
  3. Det. Eric Finch - V for Vendetta
  4. Lieutenant Shrank and Officer Krupke - West Side Story
  5. Inspector Cramer - Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout
  6. Officers O’Hara and Sanders, Police Sergeant Brophy - Arsenic and Old Lace
  7. Officer Murray Greshler - The Odd Couple
  8. Chief of Police Tinkler - Soap
  9. Odo, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  10. Inspector Japp, Christie’s Poirot novels
  11. Lt Marty Castillo, Miami Vice
  12. Inspector Henderson, The Adventures of Superman
  13. Jeff Hawkings, Worlds by Joe Haldeman

I happened to re-read this last week.

Pass

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Types of footwear

  1. Mary Janes
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Types of footwear

  1. Mary Janes
  2. Birkenstocks