List of fictional historical detectives

This list consists of fictional historical detectives:


 * Gordianus the Finder (Roman Republic of the 1st century BCE) &mdash; Steven Saylor: Roma sub Rosa series
 * Senator Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger (Roman Republic of the 1st century BCE) &mdash; John Maddox Roberts: SPQR series
 * Marcus Didius Falco (the Roman Empire of the 1st century CE) &mdash; Lindsey Davis
 * Judge Dee (7th-century China) &mdash; Robert van Gulik
 * Sister Fidelma (7th-century Ireland) &mdash; Peter Tremayne
 * Li Kao (7th-century China) &mdash; Barry Hughart
 * Brother Cadfael (12th-century England and Wales) &mdash; Ellis Peters
 * Brother William of Baskerville (1327) &mdash; Umberto Eco: The Name of the Rose
 * Brother Athelstan (late 14th century London) &mdash; P. C. Doherty (as Paul Harding)
 * Matthew Shardlake, hunchbacked lawyer, (middle 16th century London) &mdash; C. J. Sansom