| COLINDEXTER | Creator of the fictional detective Inspector Morse |
| JACQUES | First name of the fictional detective Inspector Clouseau (7) |
| WATSON | Friend and assistant of the fictional detective who lives at 221B Baker Street, London (6) |
| DIEHARDS | Detective Inspector Morse, ultimately tough on southern reactionaries (8) |
| ECO | Creator of the fictional monk William of Baskerville |
| CHESTERTON | G.K. ---, creator of the fictional priest-detective Father Brown (10) |
| RENDELL | Creator of the fictional Chief Inspector Wexford; 24 novels, beginning with 1964' s From Doon with Death (4,7) |
| MARQUAND | John P ___, creator of the fictional secret agent Mr Moto (8) |
| DIENS | Creator of the fictional Pecksniffs and Peggottys |
| VERNE | Jules ___,creator of the fictional submariner Captain Nemo (5) |
| GRAHAME | Creator of the fictional characters Mole, Ratty and Toad, Kenneth ... |
| EMILYBRONTE | Creator of the fictional Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff (5,6) |
| SACHA | Creator of the fictional Kazakhstan journalist Borat Sagdiyev, ... Baron Cohen |
| LUDLUM | Creator of the fictional character Jason Bourne, thriller writer Robert ... |
| FIELDING | Novelist and creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones (8) |
| IANFLEMING | Creator of the fictional spy James Bond (3,7) |
| SARA | ___ Paretsky, creator of the fictional sleuth VI Warshawski (4) |
| THOMAS | Poet and creator of the fictional fishing village "Llareggub", who, in Fern Hill, reflects on his childhood visits to his aunt's farm in Wales, including its apple boughs, foxes, nightjars, owls and p |
| REBUS | Fictional Detective Inspector created by the Scottish author Ian Rankin (5) |
| THORNE | Tom, fictional detective inspector created by English writer Mark Billingham (6) |
