Fiction

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Memorize these and recognize 11.4% of all Fiction clues.

1 Agatha Christie 8x

2 Tarzan 6x

3 Stephen King 5x

4 Sherlock Holmes 5x

5 Philip Marlowe 5x

6 Nero Wolfe 5x

7 Hercule Poirot 5x

8 On the Road 5x

9 Sister Carrie 5x

10 Utopia 4x

11 The Maltese Falcon 4x

12 The Invisible Man 4x

13 Lilliput 4x

14 Brave New World 4x

15 The Simpsons 3x

16 The Shining 3x

17 The Canterbury Tales 3x

18 Tess 3x

19 Scarlett O'Hara 3x

20 Rosemary's Baby 3x

21 Rabbit at Rest 3x

22 Panem 3x

23 Narnia 3x

24 Nancy Drew 3x

25 Moll Flanders 3x

26 Mike Hammer 3x

27 Injun Joe 3x

28 Henry James 3x

29 George R.R. Martin 3x

30 Father Brown 3x

31 Dracula 3x

32 Dorian Gray 3x

33 Daisy Miller 3x

34 China 3x

35 Charlie Chan 3x

36 Catch-22 3x

37 Atlas Shrugged 3x

38 Maine 3x

39 bones 3x

40 (John) Irving 3x

41 Willy Wonka 2x

42 White Fang 2x

43 Wendy 2x

44 Walter Mosley 2x

45 Twilight 2x

46 Travis McGee 2x

47 Tom Sawyer 2x

48 Tolkien 2x

49 Tinker Bell 2x

Sample Clues

It's said that this woman who died in 1976 "made more money out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia"

Agatha Christie

This hero "of the Apes" later hung out with ant men, lion men & leopard men

Tarzan

Part I of his book "Christine" is called "Dennis - Teenage Car Songs"

Stephen King

( Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presents the clue.) With my co-author, Anna Waterhouse, I've written three mystery novels featuring a very smart man named Mycroft, the older brother of this great literary chara...

Sherlock Holmes

This detective debuted in the story "Killer in the Rain", from which material was later used in "The Big Sleep"

Philip Marlowe

Sub-Areas

Other 868

Tarzan (7) On the Road (5) Brave New World (4) Lilliput (4) Utopia (4) Sister Carrie (4) Dracula (4) Atlas Shrugged (3) Rosemary's Baby (3) Michael Crichton (3)

Mystery / Thriller 113

Agatha Christie (9) Hercule Poirot (6) Stephen King (5) Sherlock Holmes (5) Philip Marlowe (5) The Shining (3) Charlie Chan (3) Walter Mosley (2) The Maltese Falcon (2) Nancy Drew (2)

British Literature 55

The Invisible Man (4) Moll Flanders (3) Jude the Obscure (2) Daniel Defoe (2) Thornton Wilder (2) The Old Curiosity Shop (2) Tolkien (2) The Time Machine (1) David Copperfield (1) Mansfield Park (1)

Children's Literature 38

Narnia (3) Oz (2) Alice in Wonderland (2) Peter Pan (2) Wendy (2) James Clavell (1) the Cheshire Cat (1) the White Rabbit (1) the Darlings (1) Uncle Tom (1)

American Literature 36

F. Scott Fitzgerald (2) Vonnegut (2) Bartleby (2) John Steinbeck (2) Nathaniel Hawthorne (2) Faulkner (2) White Fang (2) Toni Morrison (1) O Pioneers! (1) pioneers (1)

Poetry 19

Poe (1) Adam Dalgliesh (1) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1) Prometheus (1) Paradise Regained (1) (C. Auguste) Dupin (1) George Eliot (1) Sylvia Plath (1) Dylan Thomas (1) Lenore (1)

Shakespeare 12

Mercutio (1) The Old Man and the Sea (1) Romeo and Juliet (1) Belch (1) Juliet's nurse (1) Bianca (1) Katherine (Kate) (1) Faulkner (1) the weird sisters (1) Ophelia (1)