Mystery Writer Detective

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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]].
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== 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.

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