All The Tr… Editing Mystery Writer Detective 0 You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reasons: The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Users, FANDOM Staff, FANDOM Helpers, Wiki Managers, Content Team Members. Please log in to edit this wiki.Joining All The Tropes Wiki is free, and it only takes a minute.We hope that you sign in, and become a member of the community!Click here to log in or create an account more + You can view and copy the source of this page: {{trope}} 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]]. Compare [[Most Writers Are Writers]], [[Interdisciplinary Sleuth]]. See also [[Mystery Fiction]] and [[Detective Fiction]]. {{examples}} == Anime & Manga == * The leads from ''[[Kamen Tantei]]'' kind of subvert this. Yes, they're mystery writers who investigate mysteries. But the female lead, especially, is a "fairplay" mystery writer living in a world where ghosts, psychic powers, "all a dream" endings and fictional characters come to life (including the title character) make it impossible to use logic and common sense to actually solve mysteries. * ''[[Detective Conan]]'': The protagonist's father is a mystery writer who occasionally steps in to solve mysteries when his son is stumped. == Comic Books == * Gabe Webb from ''[[The Maze Agency]]'' * Kaye Daye, one of the [[Batman|Mystery Analysts of Gotham City]]. == Literature == * [[Ellery Queen]] * [[Author Avatar]] Ariadne Oliver from various [[Agatha Christie]] novels * Harriet Vane from the [[Lord Peter Wimsey]] novels is another example. == Live-Action TV == * Jessica Fletcher from ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' * ''[[Castle]]'' * ''[[The Snoop Sisters]]'' * 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 [[Informed Ability|alleged skill as a writer]]. == Real Life == * A Real Life partial example might be Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From The Other Wiki: "Conan Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused." See [[wikipedia:Arthur Conan Doyle#Correcting injustice|here]]. ** Granted, Conan Doyle had actual forensic training, and he had been a detective and lecturer himself before writing the [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories. {{reflist}} Templates used on the current version of this page: Template:Examples (view source) Template:Reflist (view source) Template:Trope (view source) Return to Mystery Writer Detective. Edit summary Preview Mobile Desktop Show changes