Have you ever wished you could just go back in time? The great thing about crime fiction is that it lets you. And as a dedicated crime fiction fan, you know all of your historical novels and authors, don't you? Or do you? Take this handy quiz and find out. Match each question with the correct answer. At the end of the quiz, submit your answers to see how well you have done. You can also go through your answers and see which ones you got correct. Ready? Let's go!
This author created the well-regarded Charlie Berlin series, which takes place in and around Melbourne. Each novel takes place in a different decade, starting with The Diggers Rest Hotel, which takes place in 1947. Who created Charlie Berlin?
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Peter Temple
Geoffrey McGeachin
Peter Corris
Sulari Gentill
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Lindsey Davis' Marcus Didius Falco series takes place in an ancient culture. In which culture does Falco live?
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Ancient India
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Benjamin Black's pathologist sleuth Garrett Quirke lives and works during the 1950s. In which city does he solve his cases?
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Dublin
New York
London
Auckland
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Malla Nunn's series featuring DS Emmanuel Cooper is as much a look at life in South Africa as it is a set of investigations. When does this series take place?
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Ancient times
1920s
at the end of apartheid in 1994
1950s
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We see the world of post-World War II Los Angeles through the eyes of PI Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins, beginning with Devil in a Blue Dress. Who is Rawlins' creator?
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Walter Mosley
Robert Crais
Lawrence Block
James Lee Burke
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Jacqueline Winspear's sleuth is a PI working in England just after World War I and through the 1920s. Who is Winspear's creation?
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Maude Silver
Lucy Eyelesbarrow
Dandelion 'Dandy' Gilver
Maisie Dobbs
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Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series takes his PI sleuth from pre-World War II into the 1950s. Where is Gunther from?
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London
Berlin
Rome
Paris
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One of Kerry Greenwood's sleuths lives in 1920s Melbourne. The other lives and works there in the present time. Who stars in Greenwood's historical series?
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Corinna Chapman
Phryne Fisher
Ella Marconi
Rowland 'Rowly' Sinclair
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William Ryan's Captain Alexei Korolev works in Moscow's CID just before World War II. Who is the USSR's leader at that time?
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Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Krushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Joseph Stalin
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No discussion of historical crime fiction would be complete without this author, whose name is given to the Crime Writers Association (CWA)'s award for best historical crime novel of each year. Who was the author?