I decided to make the Teachers as Sleuths theme a while ago, during the beginning of the school year. But, I got side-tracked (again!) This theme includes the mystery authors who are included on the Cozy Mystery Site… (Obviously, this theme entry does not include all of the mystery books which have teachers as the primary sleuths.)
Teachers as the Primary Sleuths from Mystery Books found on the site:
Donald Bain (& "Jessica Fletcher"): Murder She Wrote Mystery Series… Retired English teacher
Mignon F. Ballard: Miss Dimple Mystery Series… 1st Grade Teacher
Jo Bannister: Brodie Farrell Mystery Series… Math Teacher
Maggie Barbieri: Murder 101 Mystery Series… English Professor
Laurien Berenson: Melanie Travis Mystery Series… Special Education Teacher
Joan Blacher: Ardis Jensen Mystery Series… Ex University Counselor
J.S. Borthwick: Deane & McKenzie Mystery Series… English Professor
Gail Bowen: Joanne Kilbourn Mystery Series… Poly-Sci Professor
Heron Carvic: Miss Seeton Mystery Series… Retired Art Teacher
Sarah Caudwell: Hilary Tamar Mystery Series… Law Professor
Hampton Charles: Miss Seeton Mystery Series… Retired Art Teacher
Anna Clarke: Paula Glenning & James Goff Mystery Series… Professors
Melissa Cleary: Dog Lover's Mystery Series… Film Studies Professor
V. C. Clinton-Baddeley: Cambridge Crime Mystery Series… Retired Professor
Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Riley Adams): Myrtle Clover Mystery Series… Retired Octogenarian
Hamilton Crane (aka Sarah J. Mason): Miss Seeton Mystery Series… Retired Art Teacher
Bill Crider: Sally Good Mystery Series… English Professor AND Carl Burns Mystery Series… English Professor
Edmund Crispin: Gervase Fen Mystery Series… English Professor
Amanda Cross: Kate Fansler Mystery Series… English Professor
Jeanne M. Dams: Dorothy Martin Mystery Series… Retired Teacher
Joanne Dobson: Karen Pelletier Mystery Series… English Professor
Jan Dunlap: Bob White Birder Murder Mystery Series… High School Counselor
Anthony Eglin: English Garden Mystery Series… Retired Botany Professor
Aaron Elkins: Gideon Oliver Mystery Series… Anthropology Professor
Honora Finkelstein & Susan Smily: Ariel Quigley Mystery Series… English Teacher
"Jessica Fletcher" & Donald Bain: Murder She Wrote Mystery Series… Retired English Teacher
Linda French: Professor Teodora Morelli Mystery Series… History Professor
P. L. Gaus: Ohio Amish Mystery Series… History Professor
Anne George: Southern Sisters Mystery Series… Retired English Teacher
Paula Gosling: Stryker & Trevorne Mystery Series… English Professor
Margaret Grace: Miniature Mystery Series… Retired English Teacher
Janice Hamrick: Jocelyn Shore Mystery Series… High School
Maria Hudgins: Dotsy Lamb Travel Mystery Series… Retired History Professor
Mary Ellen Hughes: Maggie Olenski Mystery Series… Math Teacher
Jane Isenberg: Bel Barrett Mystery Series… English Professor
Diana Killian: Poetic Death Mystery Series… Teacher
Jim Lacey: Ryan/Lehrer Mystery Series…
Jane Langton: Homer Kelly Mystery Series… History Professor
Charlotte MacLeod (aka Alisa Craig): Peter Shandy Mystery Series… Botany Professor
Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino & Margaret Grace): Sophie Knowles Mystery Series… Math Professor
Sarah J. Mason (as Hamilton Crane): Miss Seeton Mystery Series… Retired Art Teacher
Sujata Massey: Rei Shimura Mystery Series… English Teacher
Ralph M. McInerny (aka Monica Quill): Notre Dame Mystery Series… Philosophy Professor
Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series… Retired Teacher
Gillian Roberts: Amanda Pepper Mystery Series: English Teacher
Sarah R. Shaber: Professor Simon Shaw Mystery Series… History Professor
Catherine Shaw: Vanessa Duncan Cambridge Mystery Series… Teacher
Susan Smily & Honora Finkelstein: Ariel Quigley Mystery Series… English Teacher
Robert Spiller: Bonnie Pinkwater Mystery Series… High School Math Teacher
Sarah Stewart Taylor: Sweeney St. George Mystery Series… History Professor
Margaret Truman: Smith & Reed Mystery Series… Law Professor
Ann Waldron: Princeton Murders Mystery Series… Writing Professor
Jill Paton Walsh: Imogen Quy Mystery Series… College Nurse
Margaret Yorke: Dr. Patrick Grant Mystery Series… Professor
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Patricia Wentworth’s Miss Silver is a former governess.
I just finished the first of Maggie Barbieri Murder 101 series. I was very impressed with it. One of the best series I have started in a long time. Can’t wait to get the rest of the series. My summer is set! I might be the last one on the planet to have started this series but wanted to share with those who have not had the pleasure. Well written, smart and fun.
Margot Kinberg and William Urban both write about professors, too.
Thanks, Karen, for telling us about them!
My amateur sleuth Pamela Barnes is a Psychology professor and acoustics expert. She uses her knowledge of sound to solve the strangulation death of a colleague in “Sounds of Murder.”
Patricia, thanks for telling us about your teacher/sleuth in Sounds of Murder.
Imogen Quy is a college nurse in Cambridge – 4 books by Jill Paton Walsh
(BTW, I absolutely LOVE your site. It’s just what I’ve been looking for! Thank you!)
Thanks, Nicole!
A friend just directed me to this site. Very nice!
May I add Simon Nash’s Adam Ludlow books, and Leo Bruce’s Carolus Deene ones.
Thank you, Lou, for telling us about Simon Nash’s Adam Ludlow and Leo Bruce’s Carolus Deene.
I am looking for the name of an author in order to see if she has added anymore titles to a series. The first book was set at a boarding school for young ladies. The first
murder was of one of the teachers, who returns as a ghost. Another teacher is the “detector”. It was definitely set in England, though I can’t recall the area.
Tessa, I’ll add this to my list of entries to post. Hopefully someone can come up with the book for you…
I have loved Anne George’s “Southern Sisters” series. There hasn’t been anything close to that series since! I have 2 sisters and this series reminded me of our relationships!!
I am a new author (An Indecent Death, A Striking Death) whose books feature Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm, a Canadian detective and former teacher. Does he qualify in this section? Been following your blog for some time – thanks for all your good work!
Thank you, David Anderson, for telling us about your Detective Sergeant Nicholas Drumm mystery series!
I read a new mystery author recently, and enjoyed her first book very much. I haven’t seen her listed on the site anywhere, so I’d like to bring her to peoples’ attention.
The author is Janice Hamrick. She started her “Jocelyn Shore” mystery series with the book “Death on Tour”. Jocelyn is a high school teacher in Texas, who goes with her cousin on a package tour in Egypt. She ends up in the middle of a murder mystery, where she could be the next victim! Jocelyn is very funny and spunky. The book gives great detail about the Egyptian tour, and there is a fun romance added as well. Her second book in the series is set to come out in July 2012, “Death Makes the Cut”. Worth reading!
Thank you, Cindy H., for telling us about Janice Hamrick. She is actually on my list of authors to post to the site.
I am glad you are adding her. I was drawn to it by the Egyptian setting, and was very happy with the book overall.