List of fictional detective teams

This is a list of fictional detective teams from popular detective fiction. This list includes pairs or groups of characters who appear in a series of novels or short stories, not characters who are teamed only for a single story.

Where two detectives work together, they are listed as A and B; where a single detective is regularly accompanied by a non-detecting sidekick or chronicler they are listed as A with B. The author who created the team appears in parentheses.

Detective Duos:


 * Anabel and Looker – (Game Freak)
 * Author Bryant and John May – (Christopher Fowler)
 * Cagney & Lacey - (Barbara Avedon and Barbara Corday)
 * Cool and Lam – (Erle Stanley Gardner as A. A. Fair)
 * Dalziel and Pascoe – (Reginald Hill)
 * Detective Pikachu/Harry Goodman and Tim Goodman – (Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly)
 * Frank and Joe Hardy – (Franklin W. Dixon)
 * Grijpstra and de Gier – (Janwillem van de Wetering)
 * Hawk and Fisher – (Simon Green)
 * Janet Scott and Rachel Bailey – (Sally Wainwright)
 * Jayanta and Manik – (Hemendra Kumar Roy)
 * Lord Darcy and Sean O'Lochlainn – (Randall Garrett)
 * Morse and Robert Lewis – (Colin Dexter)
 * Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin – (Rex Stout)
 * Nick and Nora Charles – (Dashiell Hammett)
 * Nick Wilde and Judy Hops – (Clark Spencer)
 * Richard Poole and Camille Bordey – (Robert Thorogood)
 * Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster – (Steve Franks)
 * Solomon and Lord – (Paul Levine)
 * Thomson and Thompson – (Georges Prosper Remi as Hergé)
 * Tommy and Tuppence Beresford – (Agatha Christie)
 * Travis McGee and Meyer – (John D. MacDonald)
 * Waxillium Ladrian and Wayne – (Brandon Sanderson)

Detective with X Duos:


 * Adrian Monk with Natalie Teeger – (Andy Breckman)
 * Arjun with Amal Shome – (Samaresh Majumdar)
 * Byomkesh Bakshi with Ajit Banerjee – (Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay)
 * Columbo with Dog – (Richard Levinson and William Link)
 * Dipak Chatterjee with Ratanlal – (Swapan Kumar)
 * Elijah Baley with R. Daneel Olivaw – (Isaac Asimov)
 * Feluda with Topshe – (Satyajit Ray)
 * Hercule Poirot with Arthur Hastings – (Agatha Christie)
 * Hildegarde Withers with Inspector Oscar Piper – (Stuart Palmer)
 * Inspector Lynley with Sergeant Havers – (Elizabeth George)
 * Kakababu with Sontu – (Sunil Gangopadhyay)
 * Kate Beckett with Richard Castle – (Andrew W. Marlowe)
 * Kiriti Roy with Subrata Roy – (Nihar Ranjan Gupta)
 * Martin Beck with Gunvald Larsson – (Sjöwall and Wahlöö)
 * Master Li with Number Ten Ox – (Barry Hughart)
 * Michael Knight with KITT – (Glen A. Larson)
 * Mitin Masi with Tupur – (Suchitra Bhattacharya)
 * Niladri Sarkar with Jayanta – (Syed Mustafa Siraj)
 * Parashor Barma with Krittibas Bhadra – (Premendra Mitra)
 * Phoenix Wright with Maya Fey – (Shu Takumi)
 * Shabor Dasgupta with Nanda – (Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay)
 * Sherlock Holmes with Dr. John H. Watson – (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
 * Sister Fidelma with Brother Eadulf – (Peter Tremayne)

Detective Groups:
 * Armed Detective Agency – (Kafka Asagiri)
 * Detective Boys – (Gosho Aoyama)
 * Mystery Incorporated – (Hanna-Barbera)