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)