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)