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Compare an original author with the ones who have continued the characters.
   
Character: Miss Seeton Original Author: Heron Carvic
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Charles, Hampton    Advantage Miss Seeton
   Crane, Hamilton    Miss Seeton Cracks the Case; Miss Seeton Paints the Town; Miss Seeton Plants Suspicion;
  
Miss Seeton Goes to Bat; Starring Miss Seeton; Miss Seeton Undercover; Miss Seeton Rules;
  
Sold to Miss Seeton;
Bonjour, Miss Seeton
   
Character: Philip Marlowe Original Author: Raymond Chandler
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Parker, Robert B.    Poodle Springs; Perchance to Dream (sequel to Chandler's The Big Sleep)
   
Character: Sherlock Holmes Original Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Bugge, Carole    The Haunting of Torre Abbey; The Star of India
   Carr, Caleb    The Italian Secretary
   Chabon, Michael    The Final Solution
   Cullin, Mitch    A Slight Trick of the Mind
   Davies, Martin    Mrs. Hudson and the Spirits' Curse
   Douglas, Carole Nelson    Irene Adler [series] - the only woman to outwit Sherlock Holmes
   Hall, Robert Lee    Exit Sherlock Holmes: The Great Detective's Final Days
   Hardwick, Michael    Sherlock Holmes, My Life and Crimes
   Mys FS Hol    Holmes for the Holidays
   Jamyang, Norbu    Sherlock Holmes - The Missing Years: The Adventures of the Great Detective in India and Tibet
   Kaye, Marvin    The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
   Kendrick, Stephen    Night Watch
   King, Laurie R.    Mary Russell [series] - the wife of Sherlock Holmes
   Leppak, Christopher    The Surrogate Assassin
   Lescroart, John T.    Son of Holmes
   Millett, Larry    Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Mystery; Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery;
   Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Alliance
   Mys FS M    Murder in Baker Street
   Seil, William    Sherlock Holmes and the Titanic Tragedy
   Vanneman, Alan    Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra
   
Character: James Bond Original Author: Ian Fleming
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Benson, Raymond    Doubleshot; Never Dream of Dying
   Gardner, John    License Renewed; For Special Services; Icebreaker; Role of Honor; Win, Lose or Die; Death is
   Forever
; Never Send Flowers; Seafire; Cold Fall
   
Character: Eugenia Potter Original Author: Virginia Rich
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Picard, Nancy    The 27 Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders; Blue Corn Murders; The Secret Ingredient Murders
   
Character: Eleanor Roosevelt Original Author: Elliott Roosevelt
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Harrington, William    Murder at the President's Door
   
Character: Archy McNally Original Author: Lawrence Sanders
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Lardo, Vincent    McNally's Dilemma; McNally's Folly; McNally's Chance; McNally's Alibi; McNally's Dare;
   McNally's Bluff
   
Character: Lord Peter Wimsey Original Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Paton Walsh, Jill    Thrones, Dominations; A Presumption of Death; The Attenbury Emeralds
   
Character: Nero Wolfe Original Author: Rex Stout
   Imitating Authors    Titles
   Goldsborough, Robert    Murder in E Minor; Death on Deadline; The Bloodied Ivy; The Last Coincidence; Fade to Black;
   Silver Spire; The Missing Chapter
   
Television Characters:
  Columbo series, by William Harrington
  Jessica Fletcher series by Donald Bain
   
 

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