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A set of “Ten Commandments” about literature centering on these characters bans Chinese characters and twin brothers and was codified by Roland Knox. Sir Hubert Handesley's estate is the setting of a novel about one of these characters (15[1])named Roderick Alleyn created by the New Zealand author Ngaio (”NYE-oh”) Marsh. (15[1])Look to the Lady is a novel about one of these characters created by Margery Allingham, one of four “Queens” of a (*) “Golden Age” of fiction named for these characters. The Nine Tailors is a novel about an amateur one of these characters named Lord Peter Wimsey, (10[2])who was created (10[1])by Dorothy Sayers. (10[1])One of these characters supposedly dies after he falls from Reichenbach Falls amid a duel (10[1])with Professor Moriarty. (10[1])For 10 points, name these people who include Sherlock Holmes. ■END■

ANSWER: detectives [or investigators; or crime solvers; or sleuths; prompt on private eyes]
<Noah Sheidlower, British Literature>
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