1. Which actors haven’t been cast as Agatha Christie’s husband and wife sleuths, Tommy and Tuppence?

   1. Anthony Andrews and Greta Scacchi

   2. James Warwick and Francesca Annis

   3. David Walliams and Jessica Raine

   4. David Suchet and Geraldine McEwan

2. Which sleuthing spouse is first encountered instructing bar staff: “A Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time”?

   1. Nick Charles in Dashiell Hammett’s The Thin Man

   2. Patrick Kenzie in Dennis Lehane's A Drink Before the War

   3. Alvirah Meehan in Mary Higgins Clark’s Weep no More My Lady

   4. Peter Decker in Faye Kellerman’s Grievous Sin

3. In which novel did Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey finally marry Harriet Vane?

   1. Strong Poison

   2. Busman’s Honeymoon

   3. Gaudy Night

   4. Gretna Green

4. Which English county did Reginald Hill’s Dalziel and Pascoe come from?

   1. Yorkshire

   2. Northumberland

   3. Somerset

   4. The fictional county of Copshire

5. Swedish detective Martin Beck has worked with a number of other equally gloomy colleagues, but the books are all written by which writing duo?

   1. Fältskog and Ulvaeus

   2. Sjöwall and Wahlöö

   3. Lindgren and Lagerlöf

   4. Jan and Olof Ekholm

6. Sherlock Holmes’s partnership with Dr Watson is one of the most celebrated in literature. But what did Arthur Conan Doyle originally intend to call Holmes’s sidekick?

   1. Robbie Lewis

   2. Lewis Robbie

   3. Ormond Sacker

   4. George Osborne

7. Christopher Fowler’s Arthur Bryant and John May of the Peculiar Crimes Unit are “Golden Age Detectives in a modern world”. What are they named after?

   1. A brand of matches

   2. Two members of Queen

   3. A company that makes porridge oats

   4. Two forgotten Golden Age crime novelists

8. Death at the Excelsior, in which an older detective and his younger assistant pursue the mystery of a sea captain killed by a cobra bite in a locked room with no snake present, is the only detective story from which author?

   1. PG Wodehouse

   2. W Somerset Maugham

   3. Patrick O’Brian

   4. Virginia Woolf

9. Where did Colin Dexter’s detectives Morse and Lewis get their names?

   1. Celebrated cryptographers

   2. Scottish islands

   3. Crossword setters

   4. Dexter’s German pointers

10. What are the hapless detectives in the Tintin books, Thomson and Thompson, called in French?

    1. Dupond et Dupont

    2. Clouseau et Clouseux

    3. Legrand et Legrande

    4. Bouvard et Pécuchet

Solutions

1:D, 2:A, 3:B, 4:A, 5:B, 6:C, 7:A, 8:A, 9:C, 10:A

Scores

1. 0 and above.

   You don't have a clue!

2. 3 and above.

   Ambiguous evidence. On the one hand you're not entirely clue-less, on the other hand you have not solved much.

3. 8 and above.

   Case closed! You've cleared up these questions so successfully we're offering you a high-profile police job.