Fictional Characters

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1 Sherlock Holmes 14x

2 Don Quixote 8x

3 Hercule Poirot 7x

4 The Prince and the Pauper 6x

5 Lolita 6x

6 Huckleberry Finn 6x

7 Anna Karenina 6x

8 Professor Moriarty 6x

9 the Great Gatsby 5x

10 Scarlett O'Hara 5x

11 Robinson Crusoe 5x

12 Jane Eyre 5x

13 Gulliver 5x

14 Uncle Fester 4x

15 the Count of Monte Cristo 4x

16 the Artful Dodger 4x

17 Tarzan 4x

18 Phileas Fogg 4x

19 Peter Pan 4x

20 Perry Mason 4x

21 Esmeralda 4x

22 David Copperfield 4x

23 Becky Thatcher 4x

24 Dr. Watson 4x

25 Death Comes for the Archbishop 4x

26 Peter Rabbit 4x

27 Quasimodo 4x

28 Walter Mitty 3x

29 Tom Jones 3x

30 The Red Badge of Courage 3x

31 the Maltese Falcon 3x

32 Superman 3x

33 Robin Hood 3x

34 Raskolnikov 3x

35 Oedipus 3x

36 Odysseus 3x

37 Mr. Chips 3x

38 Moll Flanders 3x

39 Long John Silver 3x

40 Jay Gatsby 3x

41 Heathcliff 3x

42 Heart of Darkness 3x

43 Harvey 3x

44 Gargantua 3x

45 Cyrano de Bergerac 3x

46 Charlie Chan 3x

47 Bridget Jones 3x

48 Alice 3x

49 Ali Baba 3x

50 a Country 3x

Sample Clues

This detective was partly based on Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Joseph Bell

Sherlock Holmes

He is confidently incorrect as he tells Sancho Panza that the cloud of dust he sees comes from an army; it's sheep

Don Quixote

When people ask if he's French, he's always quick to tell them no, he's Belgian

Hercule Poirot

In this Twain tale, Tom Canty is a dead ringer for the future king of England

The Prince and the Pauper

Playwright Clare Quilty is Humbert's rival for the love of this girl

Lolita

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Other 841

Don Quixote (8) Anna Karenina (6) Lolita (6) Jane Eyre (5) Gulliver (5) Robinson Crusoe (5) Becky Thatcher (4) the Artful Dodger (4) Peter Rabbit (4) Esmeralda (4)

Mystery / Thriller 63

Sherlock Holmes (14) Hercule Poirot (7) Professor Moriarty (5) Dashiell Hammett (2) Nancy Drew (2) Miss Marple (2) Cujo (1) The Hound Of The Baskervilles (1) A Study in Scarlet (1) Irene Adler (1)

American Literature 58

The Prince and the Pauper (4) the Great Gatsby (4) F. Scott Fitzgerald (3) Huckleberry Finn (3) Death Comes for the Archbishop (3) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2) Willa Cather (2) The Sun Also Rises (2) Heathcliff (2) Billy Budd (2)

British Literature 58

Emma (3) Moll Flanders (3) Charles Dickens (3) David Copperfield (3) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (2) Little Dorrit (2) Kim (2) Nicholas Nickleby (2) Tiny Tim (2) Virginia Woolf (2)

Poetry 31

Sir Gawain (2) Don Juan (2) Frosty the Snowman (1) Orlando (1) The Mill On The Floss (1) Cyrano de Bergerac (1) George Eliot (1) The Sea Wolf (1) Roxanne (1) Edgar Allan Poe (1)

Children's Literature 31

Peter Pan (4) Red Riding Hood (1) Midnight's Children (1) Ozymandias (1) the Wizard of Oz (1) J.D. Salinger (1) The March Hare (1) Atticus Finch (1) Wendy (1) The Color Purple (1)

Shakespeare 20

Iago (2) Richard III (2) Romeo & Juliet (1) Troilus and Cressida (1) The Merchant of Venice (1) Taming of the Shrew (1) Falstaff (1) Two Gentlemen of Verona (1) Caliban (1) Othello (1)