Mystery Books with Senior Sleuths: Q through W

Wow! There sure are a lot of detectives of "a certain age" out there in the world of mystery books! When I started going through all of my authors and trying to categorize them, I divided them into more obvious themes… I had sleuths who cooked and cleaned,  amateur detectives who gardened and golfed, accounting sleuths, amateur detectives who skated and golfed, sleuths who owned book stores or worked at libraries, ETC. However, I think that the "senior" sleuth was the most ambiguous of all of the categories. When I was in my twenties, I probably would have said that 60s would be considered senior. Now, however, I don't think of 60s as anywhere near "retirement  time." (Note that I don't say just "retirement"…. since I am truly looking forward to the day when my husband can retire and we can really start living… it up, I mean! Travelling during the time when other people are locked into the school schedules, taking off when we feel like it, going where we want to go, ETC… and that's a BIG "ETC" of all the things that are available once you retire from work… but by no means from life! (Enough philosophizing for the day!)

Here is the last of the three sections with authors who write books which feature "Senior" Sleuths:

Monica Quill:  Sister Mary Teresa Mystery Series

Virginia Rich:  Eugenia Potter Series

Cynthia Riggs:  Martha's Vineyard Mystery Series

Ann B. Ross:  Miss Julia Series

Jean Ruryk:  Cat Wilde Mystery Series

Mary Saums:  Thistle and Twigg Mystery Series

Corinne Holt Sawyer:  Benbow & Wingate Series

John Sherwood:  Celia Grant Series

Patricia Houck Sprinkle:  Thoroughly Southern Mystery Series

Kathy Hogan Trocheck:  Truman Kicklighter Series

Patricia Wentworth:  Miss Maud Silver Mystery Series

Eric Wright:  Mel Pickett Series 

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